DePauw University’s four-year earnings sit above the middle value for comparable institutions, giving its return picture a favorable peer comparison. Federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $70,091 four years after completion, placing the school-level figure in the 76th percentile.
The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $55,915, leaving DePauw University $14,176 above that benchmark. Azimuth places the return pillar in the 82nd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The above-peer earnings figure and return standing point in the same direction.
An earnings median above comparable peers gives DePauw University a favorable early-career pay picture. Among federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, median earnings are $70,091 four years after completion.
That is above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of $55,915 by $14,176. Azimuth places this earnings measure in the 76th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, from an earnings cohort of 408 completers.
The typical earnings scenario matches the institutional median, while the downside scenario is $47,219 and the upside scenario is $101,372. An estimated 36.3% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix rather than observed enrollment.
Above-peer median earnings sit alongside a modeled range that varies substantially by program mix.
Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $70,091. That places the median at the 76th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.
The earnings cohort includes 408 completers measured in the most recent federal release. That median is $14,176 above the $55,915 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Azimuth ranks DePauw University #260 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions. The program mix spans Social Sciences, Biological Sciences and Communication & Journalism.
Earnings scenarios estimated from that mix show a typical outcome of $70,091, a downside of $47,219 and an upside of $101,372. These scenarios are estimates, not observed groups, and they show the range of outcomes associated with the institution's fields of study.
An estimated 36.3% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix. That estimate comes from the fields students choose, not from observed graduate enrollment.
The four-year earnings figure is based on the outcomes of those who enter the workforce directly rather than continuing their education.
Program mix leaves a wide spread between lower- and higher-earning modeled possibilities at DePauw University. The downside earnings scenario is $47,219, whereas the upside scenario is $101,372.
These are earnings scenarios from the program mix, not observed groups of graduates. Published program medians also vary: Computer Science reaches $120,076 four years after completion, Economics reaches $94,761, and Political Science reaches $79,117. Those results give the modeled range practical context.
Paying for DePauw University depends substantially on family income, and borrower debt is above the peer median. Average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $22,264.
Across the family-income bands, average net price is $11,820 in the lowest band, $13,957 in the next band, $12,979 in the middle band, $21,774 in the next-higher band, and $31,225 in the highest band. Aid covers about 70% of the published cost for the average aid recipient.
Among borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $27,000. The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $25,000, and the university’s figure is above it by $2,000.
That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $307 a month if repaid over ten years. Income-sensitive net prices sit alongside debt above peers, so both figures belong in the cost assessment.