How this school serves students from different economic backgrounds, including Pell students, first-generation pathways, and long-term mobility outcomes.
Brigham Young University admits about 67.8% of applicants. Among enrolled undergraduates, 32.1% receive Pell Grants and 13.8% are first-generation college students, with a transfer-in share of 18.9%. Azimuth ranks Brigham Young University #153 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The access picture reflects a private nonprofit institution that draws a relatively focused applicant pool: Pell representation is more limited than at broad-access public peers, and the transfer pipeline is modest, meaning most students arrive as first-time freshmen navigating a selective admissions process. What happens to students once enrolled is where Brigham Young University stands out. The six-year graduation rate is 81.0%, and the Pell completion rate is 66.8%, signaling that students who do enroll — including those from lower-income backgrounds — complete at high rates. Median earnings for low-income graduates reach $76,900 on a historical 10-year Scorecard measure, placing this cohort in the 98.5 percentile for low-income graduate median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Brigham Young University #36 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. The mobility ranking reflects a pattern common to selective institutions with strong outcomes: the students who gain admission and complete degrees achieve durable financial results, even as the admission scale limits how broadly those gains extend across the low-income population. As Azimuth's analysis of access versus outcomes notes, the gap between what an institution's outcomes show it could deliver for mobility and what its admission volume actually delivers is the structural constraint on access and mobility ranks alike.
Brigham Young University admits about 67.8% of applicants. Among enrolled undergraduates, 32.1% receive Pell Grants and 13.8% are first-generation college students, with a transfer-in share of 18.9%. Azimuth ranks Brigham Young University #153 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The access picture reflects a private nonprofit institution that draws a relatively focused applicant pool: Pell representation is more limited than at broad-access public peers, and the transfer pipeline is modest, meaning most students arrive as first-time freshmen navigating a selective admissions process. What happens to students once enrolled is where Brigham Young University stands out. The six-year graduation rate is 81.0%, and the Pell completion rate is 66.8%, signaling that students who do enroll — including those from lower-income backgrounds — complete at high rates. Median earnings for low-income graduates reach $76,900 on a historical 10-year Scorecard measure, placing this cohort in the 98.5 percentile for low-income graduate median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Brigham Young University #36 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. The mobility ranking reflects a pattern common to selective institutions with strong outcomes: the students who gain admission and complete degrees achieve durable financial results, even as the admission scale limits how broadly those gains extend across the low-income population. As Azimuth's analysis of access versus outcomes notes, the gap between what an institution's outcomes show it could deliver for mobility and what its admission volume actually delivers is the structural constraint on access and mobility ranks alike.
Brigham Young University admits about 67.8% of applicants. Among enrolled undergraduates, 32.1% receive Pell Grants and 13.8% are first-generation college students, with a transfer-in share of 18.9%. Azimuth ranks Brigham Young University #153 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The access picture reflects a private nonprofit institution that draws a relatively focused applicant pool: Pell representation is more limited than at broad-access public peers, and the transfer pipeline is modest, meaning most students arrive as first-time freshmen navigating a selective admissions process. What happens to students once enrolled is where Brigham Young University stands out. The six-year graduation rate is 81.0%, and the Pell completion rate is 66.8%, signaling that students who do enroll — including those from lower-income backgrounds — complete at high rates. Median earnings for low-income graduates reach $76,900 on a historical 10-year Scorecard measure, placing this cohort in the 98.5 percentile for low-income graduate median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks Brigham Young University #36 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. The mobility ranking reflects a pattern common to selective institutions with strong outcomes: the students who gain admission and complete degrees achieve durable financial results, even as the admission scale limits how broadly those gains extend across the low-income population. As Azimuth's analysis of access versus outcomes notes, the gap between what an institution's outcomes show it could deliver for mobility and what its admission volume actually delivers is the structural constraint on access and mobility ranks alike.
