Students focused on Engineering (the school's signature program)
Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience
🎯 The reality
Bottom-quartile academic profile if: ACT below 17 (admitted-class quartiles; GPA floor is a calibrated heuristic where CDS not yet on file)
Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price by income, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.
TuitionThe published full price before any aid. Families who don't qualify for need-based aid — common above ~$110K income — pay this, minus any merit scholarships.
$27,836
flat rate (no in/out-of-state split)
⚠️ Sticker price isn't every family's price. Lower- and middle-income families often pay materially less after grants; higher-income families frequently pay close to sticker unless the college offers merit scholarships. Check the school's own net-price calculator for your number.
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 enrolled students scored in this range — a quarter scored BELOW the low end and still got in, and a quarter scored above the high end. 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
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
4-year completionThe share of students who finish a bachelor's in four years. Nationally barely half do — and a fifth year quietly adds a full extra year of cost to the real price.
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
📚 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.
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. Why it matters even if you're full-pay: a high mobility rate means the campus itself confers earnings power — the outcomes aren't just selection effects.
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
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.
Per Opportunity Insights, these campuses add more earnings power to the students they enroll than Dunwoody College of Technology does — a quality signal, not a cost play.
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