West Texas
A & M University
Public College in Canyon, TX. Six-year graduation rate 55%. Median 10-year earnings $50,741.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $50,741 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 55%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $19,500 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 2.2% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 99%, West Texas A & M University takes nearly everyone who applies. 3,717 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Yield sits at 33% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. 48% 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 | 480–590 | 572 (48%) |
| SAT Math | 470–580 | |
| ACT Composite | 18–23 | 382 (32%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 55% finish inside six years. Retention of 70% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. A 27% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 6,764 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,572 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,525 at $0–30k, $23,439 at $110k+. 74% of students receive grant aid, averaging $8,439 — common but not automatic. About 36% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 1,243 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 | $16,525 |
| $30–48k | $17,218 |
| $48–75k | $19,268 |
| $75–110k | $22,454 |
| $110k+ | $23,439 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,465 of these 6,764 students, totalling $19,497,800 — an average of $7,910 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Randall 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)