William Jessup University
Private College in Rocklin, CA. Six-year graduation rate 56%. Median 10-year earnings $56,257.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $56,257 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. 56% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Graduates carry a median of $23,700 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
William Jessup University admits 93% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. Only 1,289 students applied, so treat these rates as directional — small pools swing sharply between cycles. Only 20% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 6% 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 | 553–638 | 14 (6%) |
| SAT Math | 488–590 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 56% finish inside six years. Retention of 77% 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. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 10:1 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 1,021 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $29,679 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $23,123 while those at $110k+ pay $34,753. Grant aid is widespread — 93% of students receive it, averaging $21,000. 43% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 186 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 | $23,123 |
| $30–48k | $22,690 |
| $48–75k | $24,674 |
| $75–110k | $30,717 |
| $110k+ | $34,753 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 434 of these 1,021 students, totalling $2,843,556 — an average of $6,552 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Placer County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)