Wingate University
Private College in Wingate, NC. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $52,649.
Students who entered Wingate University land at a median of $52,649 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 46% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,000, 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
With an acceptance rate of 91%, Wingate University takes nearly everyone who applies. 30,339 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Only 3% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 8% 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 | 510–610 | 66 (8%) |
| SAT Math | 500–600 | |
| ACT Composite | 18–25 | 89 (11%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 46% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 70% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. The 38% transfer-out rate is high enough that a large share of this school's students are really passing through. The 15:1 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 2,462 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $21,282 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Net price varies modestly by income — $18,772 at $0–30k against $24,759 at $110k+ — so the average is a fair guide for most families. 99% of students get grant aid averaging $36,568, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Federal borrowing reaches 52% of students.
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 · 708 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 | $18,772 |
| $30–48k | $18,092 |
| $48–75k | $18,865 |
| $75–110k | $21,651 |
| $110k+ | $24,759 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,277 of these 2,462 students, totalling $8,326,038 — an average of $6,520 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Union 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)