Wentworth Institute
of Technology
Private College in Boston, MA. Six-year graduation rate 68%. Median 10-year earnings $82,721.
Ten-year median earnings of $82,721 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 68% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $25,028 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 2.6% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 91% of applicants are accepted. The applicant pool runs to 5,985, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 20%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. 28% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 560–660 | 303 (28%) |
| SAT Math | 550–660 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–31 | 30 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 68% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 84% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. Transfer-out runs to 17% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 17:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,586 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $35,604 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $27,018 at the $0–30k band to $38,272 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 96% of students receive it, averaging $21,756. Most students borrow — 58% take federal loans to cover the gap.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 979 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $27,018 |
| $30–48k | $27,588 |
| $48–75k | $31,922 |
| $75–110k | $35,769 |
| $110k+ | $38,272 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,085 of these 3,586 students, totalling $13,445,313 — an average of $6,449 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Suffolk County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)