Wofford College
Private College in Spartanburg, SC. Six-year graduation rate 84%. Median 10-year earnings $68,964.
Students who entered Wofford College reach a median of $68,964 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 84% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,732, 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.
- ✓ Graduation rate 84% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 52%, the acceptance rate makes Wofford College a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. 4,459 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 18%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 26% 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 | 608–680 | 112 (26%) |
| SAT Math | 590–663 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–31 | 92 (22%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Wofford College →Academics
A 84% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention of 91% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 12:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. The undergraduate body is just 1,873, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,873 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $30,481 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $8,493 at the $0–30k band to $23,770 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 97% of students receive it, averaging $40,681. Federal borrowing reaches 41% 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 · 508 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 | $8,493 |
| $30–48k | $11,627 |
| $48–75k | $10,830 |
| $75–110k | $19,092 |
| $110k+ | $23,770 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 764 of these 1,873 students, totalling $4,728,602 — an average of $6,189 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Spartanburg 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)