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Huntington University

INSmall private nonprofit institution · Overall rank #1053 nationally

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Azimuth ranks Huntington University #1,053 overall among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Who it’s a good fit for

Huntington University is a private nonprofit university in Huntington, Indiana, where the degree mix is led by Health Professions and Business. Mobility is above average, and that is the that sits highest among the four.

Graduates earn less than predicts for students like them. The model attributes that shortfall to the factors it measures, which subtract from expected earnings, and to a remainder it cannot explain, which also subtracts.

Most graduates are estimated to go into work rather than further study. Pell students complete below the overall rate, and the admission rate is close to the median for comparable institutions.

The lowest income band pays well below the published cost, while the highest pays closer to it. The page cannot tell you what any of these programs are like to study in, or how the program mix beyond the largest fields affects the earnings picture.

Huntington University at a glance

Admissions and outcomes

Admission rate[1]
75.6%
Six-year completion[2]
63.6%
Four-year earnings[3]
$52,242

Cost and family borrowing

Average annual net price · $48–75K family income[6]
$14,899
Median student debt[4]
$25,576
Median Parent PLUS debt[7]
$24,974

Huntington University rankings: how Azimuth assesses value[5]

Huntington University is a private nonprofit university in Huntington, Indiana, enrolling 1,082 undergraduates. Its composite standing sits in the lower third of the Azimuth ranking among nonprofit four-year institutions (28th percentile).

The four pillars are spread out, with mobility the strongest and access the weakest. The university admits 75.6% of applicants, a rate that is close to the 75.7% median for comparable institutions of the same type and size.

Of students who start full time, 83.8% return for a second year and 63.6% finish within six years. Both figures run above the peer medians of 74.2% and 54.9%.

An estimated 23.2% of entrants are not first-time full-time students, so the six-year rate describes only a portion of the student body. Mobility is the strongest pillar (70th percentile) and access is the weakest (18th percentile).

Affordability sits near the middle of the field, and return and access sit close together near the bottom. The shape is a private university where the pillars pull in different directions, and the earnings picture sits near the bottom with access.

Mobility is the clearest relative strength for Huntington University, rather than return or access. Azimuth places mobility in the 70th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Among nonprofit four-year institutions, affordability is in the 49th percentile, return is in the 21st percentile, and access is in the 18th percentile, the university’s weakest pillar. The profile is strongest on mobility, with affordability near the middle and return and access trailing.

The middle 50% of submitted SAT scores fell between 930 and 1,150. For the ACT, the middle 50% of submitted scores ranged from 18 to 26.

27.4% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants. Azimuth ranks Huntington University #1,204 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Pell recipients complete at a rate of 58.1%, which is 5.5 percentage points below the overall rate (63.6%). Azimuth ranks the university #445 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $8,255 less than the model expects for similar students.

How value-added outcomes are assessed · How to interpret program rankings

Huntington University rankings in context
GeographyRank
National#1,053

Azimuth overall value rankings within each geographic comparison group.

National pillar percentiles

Economic mobility
National percentile: 70
Access & reach
National percentile: 18
Affordability
National percentile: 49
Return on investment
National percentile: 21

01 / Huntington University briefing

Huntington University cost & financial aid[6][7]

At Huntington University, the average net price for aid recipients is $19,310 after grants and scholarships. The university publishes a cost of attendance of $42,157, an average across living arrangements.

On-campus figures include $31,870 in tuition and fees and $10,726 for room and board. Aid recipients receive average savings of $22,847 against that published cost.

Among comparable institutions (same type and size), the peer median net price is $22,347; Huntington’s average sits $3,037 below that mark. Azimuth places affordability at the 49th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The below-peer and the aid offset point in the same direction for recipients.

Prices after aid differ sharply across family-income bands at Huntington University, where the published cost of attendance is $42,157 (an average across living arrangements). The average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $10,796 for the lowest family-income band, $13,006 for the lower-middle band, $14,899 for the middle band, $23,155 for the upper-middle band, and $27,226 for the highest band.

The spread between the lowest and highest bands is $16,430, and Azimuth places the affordability pillar in the 49th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. For the average aid recipient, aid covers about 54% of the published cost, an average savings of $22,847.

Across all aid recipients, the average net price is $19,310, which is $3,037 below the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of $22,347. Published tuition and fees are $31,870, with room and board listed at $10,726.

Federal borrowing is widespread: 88.6% of federal aid recipients borrow federal loans, and borrowers who completed have median federal student loan debt of $25,576 at completion. That figure is $576 above the $25,000 peer median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $291 a month if repaid over ten years. Median Parent PLUS borrowing is $24,974.

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Reported average annual net price · $48–75K$14,899

After grants and scholarships. Your aid offer may differ.

Averages within each income band; individual aid packages vary.

Borrowing and repayment at Huntington University

Federal borrowing is widespread at Huntington University, with 88.6% of federal aid recipients using federal loans. Among borrowers who complete, median federal student loan debt is $25,576.

Comparable institutions (same type and size) have a peer median of $25,000, placing Huntington's figure $576 above that benchmark. For the separate population of parent borrowers, median Parent PLUS borrowing is $24,974.

For Huntington University, earnings scenarios span from $42,352 in the downside scenario to $70,464 in the upside scenario, with $52,242 as the typical scenario. Among federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, median earnings are $52,242 four years after completion.

Azimuth places that earnings figure in the 24th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Earnings beyond expectations—the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students—show that graduates earn about $8,255 less than the model expects for similar students.

Azimuth places that measure in the 24th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Median federal student loan debt at completion is $25,576, compared with $25,000 at comparable institutions (same type and size), or $576 above the peer median.

That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $291 a month if repaid over ten years.

Among parents who borrow through Parent PLUS, the median borrowed is $24,974. The median federal student debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $291 a month if repaid over ten years.

How Financial GPS measures payment burden · The four risk-and-reward zones

Financial GPS

What does repayment look like?

Institution median student debt
$25,576
Institution Parent PLUS debt
$24,974

Federal loans only; private or institutional loans aren’t included.

Estimated student payment · monthly
$291/mo
Estimated Parent PLUS payment · monthly
$317/mo

Payments use school-wide median balances, not a specific major’s.

Payment assumptions

Payments are 10-year standard payments on the median balance, before loan fees, used as a yardstick. Rates for newly issued loans may differ, and loans made after July 1, 2026 can repay over a longer term; existing loans keep their original fixed rates.

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02 / Huntington University briefing

Huntington University career outcomes & earnings[3][8][9]

Huntington University has a mixed return picture: federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $52,242 four years after completion. Azimuth puts that earnings measure in the 24th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, and assigns the return pillar to the 21st percentile in the same cohort.

Graduates earn about $8,255 less than the model expects for similar students. Earnings beyond expectations, the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students, falls in the 24th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) subtracts $651. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $7,604.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $55,915; Huntington’s median is $3,673 below it.

Graduate outcomes show a modest schoolwide earnings figure alongside a broad range of modeled paths. At Huntington University, federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled have median earnings of $52,242 four years after completion.

Azimuth places that earnings measure in the 24th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 306 completers. The typical earnings scenario, based on the program mix, is $52,242.

An estimated 21.2% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix. The schoolwide median and the modeled scenario describe different views of earnings, with graduate study also part of the program-mix picture.

Huntington University’s return measures point below both comparable colleges and the model’s expectation. Among federally aided completers who are working and not enrolled, median earnings are $52,242 four years after completion, placing them in the 24th percentile.

The peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), is $55,915, with Huntington University $3,673 below it. Earnings beyond expectations is the gap between what graduates earn and what the model expects for similar students.

That figure sits in the 24th percentile: Graduates earn about $8,255 less than the model expects for similar students. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) subtracts $651.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $7,604. Within the measured factors, the STEM component subtracts $612.

Azimuth ranks the university #1,156 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions. Earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix place the downside at $42,352 and the upside at $70,464.

The peer comparison and model result point in the same direction. Nursing is the largest program, with 31 degrees awarded and median earnings of $71,310 four years after completion.

Business Administration and Management, with 22 degrees awarded, has median earnings of $59,538, while Film/Video and Photographic Arts recorded 18 degrees awarded and $46,073 in median earnings. Against national medians for their fields, Nursing stands at 0.80x, Business Administration and Management at 0.87x, and Film/Video and Photographic Arts at 1.05x. The field comparisons are mixed.

Program choice marks a wide difference in modeled earnings at Huntington University. The downside earnings scenario is $42,352, and the upside scenario is $70,464; both are estimated from the program mix rather than observed groups.

Four years after completion, program medians are $71,310 in Nursing, $59,538 in Business Administration and Management, and $34,787 in Graphic Communications. Those program results help show why the earnings scenarios span a wide range.

Huntington University pairs a lower average net price with borrowing just above comparable institutions and earnings that fall short of the model’s expectation. The average net price, what aid recipients pay after grants and scholarships, is $19,310.

That is below the $22,347 peer median at comparable institutions (same type and size) by $3,037. Among borrowers who completed, median federal student loan debt is $25,576, above the $25,000 peer median by $576.

That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $291 a month if repaid over ten years. Graduates earn about $8,255 less than the model expects for similar students.

Lower net price is offset by debt above peers and earnings below the model’s expectation.

What explains value-added earnings?
Program & institutional factors The part attributed to observed institutional characteristics.
-$651
Unexplained remainder What remains after the model’s observed factors.
-$7,604
Total modeled value added The modeled difference from expected earnings.
-$8,255

These are statistical model components, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

Read the full outcomes brief

03 / Huntington University briefing

Huntington University acceptance rate & admissions[1][10][11]

At Huntington University, 75.6% of the reported applicant pool received admission, meaning that most applicants in that cycle were admitted. That figure is just below the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

The reported result summarizes one applicant pool; it does not determine an individual admission decision.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range
Admission rate
75.6%
Approximate lower endpoint
930
Reported average
1052
Approximate upper endpoint
1150

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.

Read the full admissions brief

04 / Huntington University briefing

What are the largest majors at Huntington University?[12]

At Huntington University, the larger programs span a broad range of median earnings four years after completion, making field choice especially consequential. Nursing sits at the higher end with $71,310 in median earnings and 31 degrees awarded in one academic year.

Business Administration and Management follows with $59,538 and 22 degrees awarded. More moderate earnings appear in Film/Video and Photographic Arts, where median earnings were $46,073 across 18 degrees awarded, and Graphic Communications, with $34,787 and 16 degrees awarded.

The higher-earning health and business fields contrast with these arts-oriented fields, so the school-level earnings figure covers materially different program outcomes.

Health Professions accounts for 23.2% of bachelor’s degrees awarded at Huntington University, making it the largest program family. 5 fields have published earnings data, with reported medians measured four years after completion.

Nursing: 31 degrees awarded and median earnings of $71,310 four years after completion. Business Administration and Management: 22 degrees awarded and $59,538 in median earnings.

Film/Video and Photographic Arts: 18 degrees awarded and $46,073 in median earnings. Graphic Communications: 16 degrees awarded and $34,787 in median earnings.

Kinesiology and Physical Education: 15 degrees awarded and $48,400 in median earnings.

At Huntington University, the bachelor's degrees are anchored in professional fields. Health Professions accounts for 23.2% of degrees awarded, followed by Business at 20.4% and Visual & Performing Arts at 13.3%.

The university has 5 programs with published four-year earnings data. The largest single program is Nursing, at 31 degrees awarded, with Business Administration and Management next at 22 and Film/Video and Photographic Arts at 18.

The highest-earning program is also the largest: Nursing graduates earn a median of $71,310 four years after completion, a benchmark ratio of 0.80x against the national median for its field. Business Administration and Management, the second-largest program, is also the second-highest-earning at $59,538, with a benchmark ratio of 0.87x.

Kinesiology and Physical Education follows at $48,400 from 15 degrees awarded. Film/Video and Photographic Arts has a benchmark ratio of 1.05x against the national median for its field, though its median earnings of $46,073 sit below the top two programs.

The pattern is one where the largest programs also pay the most, which is not always the case. The two biggest fields, Health Professions and Business, together award nearly half of all degrees.

Both contain programs with earnings below the national median for their fields, while some smaller programs in the arts and communications sit above it. Across all fields, 6.3% of degrees awarded are in STEM.

Four-year earnings · six largest reported fields
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing 31 degrees awarded
$71,310
Business Administration, Management and Operations 22 degrees awarded
$59,538
Film/Video and Photographic Arts 18 degrees awarded
$46,073
Graphic Communications 16 degrees awarded
$34,787
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness 15 degrees awarded
$48,400
Social Work 12 degrees awarded
Too few graduates to report

Fields selected by reported completions. Counts describe credentials awarded, not unique students or the earnings sample. Bars show median four-year earnings.

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05 / Huntington University briefing

How does Huntington University serve students from different backgrounds?

Within the first-time full-time cohort, 63.6% complete within six years; for Pell recipients, the rate is 58.1%, 5.5 percentage points below the overall rate. Azimuth places Huntington University’s mobility pillar in the 70th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Earnings beyond expectations compares graduate earnings with the model’s expectation for similar students. Graduates earn about $8,255 less than the model expects for similar students.

That earnings measure sits in the 24th percentile, so the completion picture is stronger than the model-based earnings reading.

Access is a weaker part of the picture at Huntington University, where Azimuth places the access pillar in the 18th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. The university admits 75.6% of applicants and enrolls 1,082 undergraduates.

Pell Grants go to 27.4% of undergraduates, and an estimated 23.2% enter as transfers or part-time students. Those entry measures sit alongside an access standing near the lower end of nonprofit four-year institutions.

06 / Huntington University briefing

What colleges are similar to Huntington University?[15]

Azimuth groups alternatives by admissions, location, cost and earnings, then orders candidates within each group. Peer earnings use the matched four-year cohort. How matching works.

A shortlist for different decisions

Choose a row to compare the figures with Huntington University.

Admissions peerIndiana University-East67.2% admitted
Comparison with Huntington University
MeasureHuntington UniversityIndiana University-East
Peer earnings · 4 years$52,242$58,030+$5,788 vs Huntington University
Average annual net price$19,310$8,134-$11,176 vs Huntington University · lower cost
Admission rate75.6%67.2%
Explore Indiana University-East →
Higher-admission alternativeBethel University97.7% admitted
Comparison with Huntington University
MeasureHuntington UniversityBethel University
Peer earnings · 4 years$52,242$53,289+$1,047 vs Huntington University
Average annual net price$19,310$18,610-$700 vs Huntington University · lower cost
Admission rate75.6%97.7%
Explore Bethel University →
Nearby alternativeManchester UniversityNearby option · IN
Comparison with Huntington University
MeasureHuntington UniversityManchester University
Peer earnings · 4 years$52,242$52,989+$747 vs Huntington University
Average annual net price$19,310$18,805-$505 vs Huntington University · lower cost
Admission rate75.6%71.1%
Higher-earnings alternativeSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology$87,878 earnings
Comparison with Huntington University
MeasureHuntington UniversitySouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Peer earnings · 4 years$52,242$87,878+$35,636 vs Huntington University
Average annual net price$19,310$20,183+$873 vs Huntington University · higher cost
Admission rate75.6%79.9%
Lower-cost alternativeIndiana University-East$8,134 average net price
Comparison with Huntington University
MeasureHuntington UniversityIndiana University-East
Peer earnings · 4 years$52,242$58,030+$5,788 vs Huntington University
Average annual net price$19,310$8,134-$11,176 vs Huntington University · lower cost
Admission rate75.6%67.2%
Explore Indiana University-East →
Similar profileAquinas CollegeMatched across several measures
Comparison with Huntington University
MeasureHuntington UniversityAquinas College
Peer earnings · 4 years$52,242$51,578-$664 vs Huntington University
Average annual net price$19,310$16,626-$2,684 vs Huntington University · lower cost
Admission rate75.6%89.9%
Explore Aquinas College →

Each school is the first-ranked match in its category, not a recommendation across every measure. The same college may lead more than one category. Figures use the matching snapshot; earnings reflect the matched four-year cohort. — means unavailable.

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Data scope & methodology

Structured payloads generated Governed hub narrative Governed spoke corpus

Four-year earnings describe cohorts of completers. Figures for other horizons describe different cohorts and are not joined into a career-growth projection.

Azimuth's overall rank and pillar percentiles come from the school profile. Absolute pillar ranks, city, enrollment and official-site links are shown only when structured data supplies them.

Detailed earnings, cost, admissions and program values come from the endpoint responsible for each measure. Missing values are not replaced with zero. Value-added estimates are model associations, not causal effects.

Figures are refreshed with each data release, at most a quarter apart. The underlying source dates can be earlier than the release.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Read the ranking methodology, data definitions and limitations · About College Azimuth

Read the analysis behind value-added earnings and the change to four-year graduate earnings. These articles are published on collegeazimuth.com.

Data notes & source fields

Scorecard field codes identify the underlying measure; Azimuth-derived values are labeled separately. Snapshot dates are not measurement years. Source populations and reporting periods differ across measures. Field definitions are in the U.S. Department of Education · College Scorecard documentation; notes with a different source link it below.

  1. Admission rate. Reported applicants admitted; not a transfer-specific or individual admission probability.

    Source fields: ADM_RATE

  2. Six-year completion. First-time, full-time students completing at the institution within 150% of normal time, typically six years for a bachelor’s degree.

    Source fields: C150_4

  3. Four-year institutional earnings. Median earnings of graduates in the reported cohort who are working and not enrolled, four years after completion.

    Source fields: MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

  4. Median federal student debt. Federal student-loan debt among completers in the reported borrowing cohort. Excludes Parent PLUS and is not total debt across all students.

    Source fields: GRAD_DEBT_MDN

  5. National, regional and state ranks; pillar percentiles; major ranks. Derived scores within the stated eligible comparison set, not raw Scorecard fields. Major ranks compare institutions within a field; their denominators differ.

    Source fields: Azimuth rankings

    College Azimuth · Ranking methodology

  6. Annual net price by family income. Average annual cost after grants and scholarships for the eligible first-time, full-time aid-recipient cohort. Public-school figures reflect in-state tuition. Includes living costs; these are averages, not medians or individual offers.

    Source fields: NPT4_PUB/PRIV; NPT41_PUB/PRIV through NPT45_PUB/PRIV

  7. Parent PLUS debt, payments and GPS illustration. Stored payments use Financial GPS loan and repayment assumptions. The adjustable spectrum applies the published framework to annual student payments divided by earnings minus an expense allowance; its initial allowance uses the frozen 2024 framework baseline. It is an illustration rather than a school rating. Parent PLUS uses the completer median where available, otherwise the all-borrower median; these describe different borrowing populations.

    Source fields: PLUS_DEBT_ALL_COMP_MD; fallback PLUS_DEBT_ALL_MD; Azimuth Financial GPS calculations

    College Azimuth · Financial GPS methodology

  8. Downside and upside earnings; yellow band. The band spans the modeled lower and higher scenarios. It is not the P25–P75 interval for individual graduates. The median marker is the separately reported institutional median.

    Source fields: Azimuth modeled program-mix scenarios

    College Azimuth · Earnings scenario methodology

  9. Value added and its components. Observed-factor attribution plus the unexplained remainder equals total modeled value added. These are associations, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

    Source fields: Azimuth statistical model

    College Azimuth · Value-added methodology

  10. SAT score range and reported midpoint. Reported scores of enrolled score-submitters, not admission cutoffs. The midpoint field is not necessarily the middle of the displayed range.

    Source fields: SATVR25 + SATMT25; SATVR75 + SATMT75; SAT_AVG

  11. First-year retention. Retention of the reported full-time cohort at four-year institutions.

    Source fields: RET_FT4

  12. Program earnings, completion counts and major-mix dots. Included bachelor’s programs have at least five reported completions. Counts are aggregated credentials, not unique people or an earnings sample. Major-mix dots group those counts by field of study; excluded programs are not zero activity.

    Source fields: EARN_MDN_4YR; IPEDSCOUNT1; CIPCODE

    College Scorecard · Field-of-study technical documentation

  13. Pell recipients. Share of undergraduates receiving a Pell Grant in the reported academic year.

    Source fields: PCTPELL

  14. Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group. This is not an observed transfer-in rate. It includes part-time entrants and other entering-student attendance patterns.

    Source fields: 1 − PFTFTUG1_EF

  15. Peer earnings and signed differences. Differences are peer minus this school, from the same matching snapshot. A positive earnings difference does not mean the peer is better on every measure.

    Source fields: Azimuth peer model using MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

    College Azimuth · Comparison methodology

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