Xavier University
of Louisiana
Private College in New Orleans, LA. Six-year graduation rate 49%. Median 10-year earnings $52,184.
Students who entered Xavier University of Louisiana land at a median of $52,184 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 50%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates carry a median of $24,053 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 5.3% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
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
An acceptance rate of 69% puts Xavier University of Louisiana on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 10,260 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 12% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 33% 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 | 500–560 | 276 (33%) |
| SAT Math | 450–553 | |
| ACT Composite | 19–24 | 387 (46%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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50% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 72% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. With 38% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,550 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $17,162 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The income table below is the number that matters — $14,405 at $0–30k versus $24,096 at $110k+. Grant aid is widespread — 89% of students receive it, averaging $20,301. Most students borrow — 57% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 683 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 | $14,405 |
| $30–48k | $15,094 |
| $48–75k | $17,836 |
| $75–110k | $19,118 |
| $110k+ | $24,096 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,457 of these 2,550 students, totalling $9,290,400 — an average of $6,376 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Orleans Parish) — 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)