Woodbury University
Private College in Burbank, CA. Six-year graduation rate 60%. Median 10-year earnings $65,668.
Students who entered Woodbury University reach a median of $65,668 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 60% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Median debt at graduation is $26,960, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 6.4% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Mobility score 6.4 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
82% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 2,572 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 6% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering 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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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60% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 74% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. The 13:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. 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 825 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $37,258 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $28,815 while those at $110k+ pay $39,808. Most students get help: 98% receive grants worth $22,616 on average. 58% 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 · 104 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 | $28,815 |
| $30–48k | $28,368 |
| $48–75k | $30,748 |
| $75–110k | $32,773 |
| $110k+ | $39,808 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 481 of these 825 students, totalling $3,634,564 — an average of $7,556 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Los Angeles 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)