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Parent/student verdict

Accessible

Accessible for most applicants.

Best for

  • Students focused on Engineering (the school's signature program)
  • Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience

The reality

  • You'd be near the bottom of their admitted class if: ACT below 17 (test bands are the school's own; the GPA floor is our estimate, not a published figure)

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Institutional snapshot

What kind of college is this?

Carnegie classification
Baccalaureate/Associate's Colleges: Mixed Bacc/Assoc
Undergraduates
1,533
1,000 - 4,999 including graduate students
TuitionThe published full price before any aid. Families who don't qualify for need-based aid at a given college pay this, minus any merit scholarships — whether you qualify depends on the college's price and policies, not on any fixed income line.
$27,836
flat rate (no in/out-of-state split) · 2023–24 federal figure
Admit rateThe share of applicants a college accepts. Useful context, but your student's odds depend on their own grades and scores, not the average.
98.5%
Accepts the majority
ACT middle 50%The middle half of the enrolled first-years who sent this test scored in this range — a quarter of them scored BELOW the low end and still got in, and a quarter scored above the high end. At a test-optional college the students who submitted are often a minority of the class, so the range describes them rather than everyone who enrolled. Above the top number is a genuine strength; below the bottom isn't automatic rejection.
17–23
composite
Test policyApplicants choose whether to send SAT/ACT scores. At many such colleges, students who submit strong scores are still admitted at higher rates.
Test-optional
2023
10-yr earningsMedian yearly pay of former students ten years after they STARTED here — not ten years after graduating — all majors combined. The broadest single outcome number a college reports.
$61,511
median, after entry

13% of enrolled first-years submitted an ACT score — this range describes students who submitted, not the whole class.

Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.

Outcomes & cost

What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.

Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).

Earnings, 6 yrs after entry
$59,069
Earnings, 10 yrs after entryMedian yearly pay of former students ten years after they STARTED here — not ten years after graduating — all majors combined. The broadest single outcome number a college reports.
$61,511
Graduate within 6 yrsThe share of students who start here and finish a bachelor's within six years — the standard federal measure, and the one College Scorecard publishes. It is not a four-year rate. Read it as the odds of finishing at all: nationally about a third of students who start never do, and an unfinished degree is the most expensive outcome in this decision.
66%
Median debt (completers)The federal-loan balance of the typical graduating borrower. Families who pay cash aren't counted, so read it as "among those who borrowed."
$16,000

The real cost

What Dunwoody College of Technology actually costs

If you qualify for need aidGrant money based on your family's finances (via FAFSA and the college's own forms), not your student's stats.
Aid averages aren't published federally for this college — its own calculator below shows what you'd pay.
If you don't
$36,587/yr
the full published price

Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by Dunwoody College of Technology's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.

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Source: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.

What students study here

Most popular majors at Dunwoody College of Technology

Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what Dunwoody College of Technology actually graduates — not just what it markets.

1. Engineering
40 degrees · 44.9%
Engineering majors land high-paying technical roles. Top-earning sub-disciplines: petroleum, chemical, computer engineering.
2. Architecture
18 degrees · 20.2%
Path to becoming a licensed architect requires graduate degree + experience.
3. Business, Management, & Marketing
18 degrees · 20.2%
Broad set of corporate roles. Finance + consulting pay top, accounting + HR pay middle, sales spread is wide.
4. Visual & Performing Arts
10 degrees · 11.2%
Highly variable. Steady-pay roles cluster in design, illustration, production. Performance careers have very wide income distributions.
5. Computer & Information Sciences
3 degrees · 3.4%
High-paying tech roles dominate. Median software roles cluster in the $90k-$130k range.

What those majors earn here

Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — Dunwoody College of Technology's own graduates, not national averages.

Major (CIP) Credential Cohort 1-yr earnings 4-yr earnings
Manufacturing Engineering. Bachelor's Degree 15 $77,857 $90,176
Construction Management. Bachelor's Degree 6 $61,789 $85,525

Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →

Student body & economic mobility

Who attends here — and what the campus adds.

Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.

Top-1% access
1.0%
from top-1% households
Mobility rateThe share of ALL students who arrived from the bottom 20% of family incomes AND reached the top 20% themselves by their early 30s — access and lift in one number, and a sign the campus itself adds earnings power.
1.4%
bottom 20% → top 20% by age 32
Upward rate
40.9%
of lower-income students who reach the top 20%
Pell recipientsStudents receiving federal Pell grants, which go to lower- and middle-income families — the standard shorthand for a college's economic mix.
32%
on federal need grants — context for these numbers

Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →

Alternatives to Dunwoody College of Technology

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Better merit-aid options
These similar-selectivity schools publish merit scholarships your family can plan around — your kid’s stats could unlock real scholarship dollars.
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AL · Public
17 stats-based + 2 competitive scholarships
University of Mississippi
MS · Public
14 stats-based + 1 competitive scholarships
University of Kentucky
KY · Public
8 stats-based + 5 competitive scholarships
Lower full price
Similar selectivity, but a meaningfully lower full sticker price — the comparison that matters most for families who won't qualify for much need-based aid.
Gordon State College
GA · Public
$14,771/yr full price (in-state) · $21,816 less before aid for GA residents
Brigham Young University-Idaho
ID · Private nonprofit
$15,246/yr full price · $21,341 less before aid
Louisiana State University-Alexandria
LA · Public
$15,550/yr full price (in-state) · $21,037 less before aid for LA residents
More students move up here
Per Opportunity Insights, a larger share of these campuses' lower-income students reach the top earnings quintile than at Dunwoody College of Technology. That reflects who they admit as well as what they do, so read it as a destination signal rather than proof of value added.
California State University-Los Angeles
CA · Public
9.9% mobility rate (vs 1.4% here)
The University of Texas at El Paso
TX · Public
6.8% mobility rate (vs 1.4% here)
California State University-Northridge
CA · Public
6.3% mobility rate (vs 1.4% here)

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Dunwoody College of Technology is a private nonprofit four-year college in MN. It admitted 98% of applicants (587 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.

Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: ACT 17–23. 13% of enrolled first-years submitted an ACT score — this range describes students who submitted, not the whole class.

Cost: $36,587 a year at full price, before aid.

Median earnings ten years after entry: $61,511 a year.

Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Manufacturing Engineering ($90,176); Construction Management ($85,525).

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 41% of those reached the top fifth as adults.

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