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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $557,598 ahead with aid, $398,162 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General ($115,095); Computer Engineering ($96,079); Computer Science ($94,111).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 28% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Valparaiso University: 4, 7 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Sage Hill School (0.7 per class year, 2 over 3 class years, 2023-2025); Canterbury School (0.5 per class year, 3 over 6 class years, 2019-2024); John Burroughs School (0.2 per class year, 1 over 5 class years, 2021-2025). 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/valparaiso-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/valparaiso-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":11043},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":12055},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":15279},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":22311}],"full_price":58437,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":18578,"npc_url":"https://www.valpo.edu/student-financial-services/planning/","tuition_in_state":48450,"tuition_out_of_state":48450},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":63191,"median_6yr_after_entry":55216},"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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