Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Private College in Norton, MA. Six-year graduation rate 73%. Median 10-year earnings $67,725.
Ten-year median earnings of $67,725 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 73% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $26,000 in debt — in line with the national norm.
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
An acceptance rate of 68% puts Wheaton College (Massachusetts) on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 5,835 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Yield is low at 13%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. 18% 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 | 640–720 | 94 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 580–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 29–33 | 12 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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73% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 82%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. This is a small school — 1,750 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,743 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $30,701 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $20,076 while those at $110k+ pay $33,956. Grant aid is widespread — 99% of students receive it, averaging $45,440. Most students borrow — 78% 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 · 522 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 | $20,076 |
| $30–48k | $21,528 |
| $48–75k | $28,299 |
| $75–110k | $28,639 |
| $110k+ | $33,956 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,357 of these 1,743 students, totalling $8,961,240 — an average of $6,604 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bristol 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)