Wright State
University-Main Campus
Public Research University in Dayton, OH. Six-year graduation rate 42%. Median 10-year earnings $49,500.
Students who entered Wright State University-Main Campus land at a median of $49,500 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 42%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $22,750, 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
- ! Mobility score 0.8 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
Admission is not the constraint here: 96% of applicants are accepted. 8,855 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield sits at 20% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all.
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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Completion is middling: 42% finish inside six years. First-year retention is 68% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. Retention drops to 38% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. A 16:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 6,330 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $15,254 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $11,952 while those at $110k+ pay $20,720. Grant aid reaches 80% of students at an average of $8,497. 46% 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 · 1,425 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 | $11,952 |
| $30–48k | $11,631 |
| $48–75k | $14,501 |
| $75–110k | $18,734 |
| $110k+ | $20,720 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,927 of these 6,330 students, totalling $19,472,361 — an average of $6,653 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Greene 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)