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This award applies only to regular tuition costs and does not cover additional expenses such as housing, meal plans or other fees.","source_url":"https://admissions.web.baylor.edu/costs-aid/scholarships-aid/baylor-benefit-scholarship","verified":true},"at_a_glance":["Baylor University is a private nonprofit four-year college in TX. It admitted 51% of applicants (39,735 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1210\u20131400, ACT 27\u201332. 31% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 19% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $41,104 a year on average with aid, $74,226 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $65,793 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $493,514 ahead with aid, $361,026 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($128,411); General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations ($125,167); Business/Commerce, General ($124,434).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 34% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $50,000 pay no tuition.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Baylor University: 43, 105 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often The John Cooper School (3.8 per class year, 19 over 5 class years, Class of 2022 - 2026); Punahou School (3.2 per class year, 13 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)); Collegiate School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 College Enrollments / 2023-26 4-Year College Enrollments, counted column \"Class of 2026 College Enrollments\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/baylor-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Baylor University: 7, 24 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (11.0 per class year, 11 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); The Altamont School (1.2 per class year, 6 over 5 class years, Classes of 2021-2025); Canterbury School-Fort Myers (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/baylor-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/baylor-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":22024},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":21530},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":33902},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":38852}],"full_price":74226,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":41104,"npc_url":"https://www.baylor.edu/sfs/netpricecalculator/npcalc.htm","tuition_in_state":58100,"tuition_out_of_state":58100},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":65793,"median_6yr_after_entry":56532},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":24,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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