Four years after completion, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled at Denison University have median earnings of $62,838, placing that figure in the 60th percentile. Azimuth places the university’s return pillar in the 73rd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $68,250. Denison’s median is $5,412 below that benchmark.
Its earnings percentile is solid, though the comparison with similar institutions points to a lower median.
At Denison University, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $62,838 four years after completion. This institutional median describes the middle of the reported earnings cohort rather than a guarantee for every completer.
Azimuth places that earnings measure in the 60th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 373 completers. Earnings scenarios tied to the program mix put typical earnings at the same level as the observed median, with a downside scenario of $49,092 and an upside scenario of $88,397.
These scenarios describe modeled patterns, not observed groups of graduates. An estimated 37.4% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.
The observed median and typical scenario align, while the downside and upside scenarios show how much the program mix can matter.
Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $62,838. That median is at the 60th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The school median is $5,412 below the $68,250 figure for comparable institutions as a group (same type and size). The peer median is the middle earnings value for institutions of the same type and size.
Azimuth ranks Denison University #390 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions. The earnings figure comes from a cohort of 373 completers measured at the four-year mark after finishing a degree.
The degree mix spans the social sciences, communication disciplines, and the life sciences. Program-level medians vary across these fields, with some programs reporting higher four-year earnings and others reporting noticeably lower ones.
Earnings scenarios are estimated from the program mix and do not represent observed groups or fixed percentiles. Estimated from the program mix, the downside earnings scenario is $49,092 and the upside scenario is $88,397 four years out.
An estimated 37.4% of graduates continue on to graduate study, based on the program mix.
Denison’s modeled earnings picture has a wide range across its program mix. The downside earnings scenario is $49,092, the typical scenario is $62,838, and the upside scenario is $88,397.
These are scenarios rather than observed graduate groups. Among published program results, Economics has median earnings of $97,394 four years after completion, compared with $66,730 in Communication and Media Studies and $65,429 in Education. Those figures give the modeled range a concrete program-level context.
At Denison University, both average price and borrower debt sit above the comparable-school benchmarks. Borrowers who completed had median federal student loan debt of $26,000, above the $24,199 median at comparable institutions (same type and size) by $1,801.
That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $295 a month if repaid over ten years. For aid recipients, average net price, what they pay after grants and scholarships, varies by family-income band: $16,656 in the lowest band, $13,086 in the next, $17,827 in the middle, $20,839 in the next-highest, and $48,472 in the highest.
The overall average net price is $40,007, above the $27,371 median at comparable institutions (same type and size) by $12,636. Aid covers about 51% of the published cost for the average aid recipient.
The higher price and debt figures point in the same direction: costs at the university require attention alongside its graduate earnings.