Wesleyan College
Private College in Macon, GA. Six-year graduation rate 45%. Median 10-year earnings $44,317.
Ten years after entry, the median Wesleyan College student earns $44,317 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. 45% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $24,094, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 59% of applicants are offered a place. With 1,352 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. A 13% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 19% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
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 | 518–573 | 20 (19%) |
| SAT Math | 450–543 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–24 | 7 (7%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 45%, meaning about three in five students who enroll leave without finishing. First-year retention is 76% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 465 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,837 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $11,045 while those at $110k+ pay $22,726. 90% of students get grant aid averaging $23,913, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 55% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 100 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 | $11,045 |
| $30–48k | $13,317 |
| $48–75k | $12,943 |
| $75–110k | $9,287 |
| $110k+ | $22,726 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 256 of these 465 students, totalling $1,721,490 — an average of $6,725 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bibb 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)