Whitworth University
Private College in Spokane, WA. Six-year graduation rate 71%. Median 10-year earnings $58,561.
Students who entered Whitworth University land at a median of $58,561 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 71% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 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
Whitworth University admits 90% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. 4,197 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 14% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 13% 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 | 550–670 | 68 (13%) |
| SAT Math | 540–660 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–29 | 25 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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71% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. 78% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in five are gone before sophomore year. 21% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 11:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,927 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $27,605 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $16,788 while those at $110k+ pay $34,641. 97% of students get grant aid averaging $37,246, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 56% 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 · 549 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 | $16,788 |
| $30–48k | $18,242 |
| $48–75k | $20,358 |
| $75–110k | $26,525 |
| $110k+ | $34,641 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,080 of these 1,927 students, totalling $7,195,100 — an average of $6,662 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Spokane 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)