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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $456,182 ahead with aid, $339,846 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($80,188); Business Administration, Management and Operations ($70,328); Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General ($62,364).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 5% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 26% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Otterbein University: 3, 6 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often St Ignatius High School (1.0 per class year, 3 over 3 class years, Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025); The Seven Hills School (0.4 per class year, 2 over 5 class years, 2021-2025); Fort Worth Country Day School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 4 class years, 2020-23). 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/otterbein-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/otterbein-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":12458},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":12659},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":16478},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":23061}],"full_price":48321,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":19237,"npc_url":"https://www.otterbein.edu/estimator/npcalc.htm","tuition_in_state":35548,"tuition_out_of_state":35548},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":53313,"median_6yr_after_entry":44539},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":0,"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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