Lindenwood University
Saint Charles, MO
Lindenwood University is a private university in Saint Charles, Missouri, a small city, with 4,624 undergraduates. Kinesiology and criminal justice are its signature fields: together they make up 16% of its bachelor's degrees, three and a half times their share across the colleges we cover. 49% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $53,278 ten years after starting.
Lindenwood University admitted 4,441 of 6,743 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (65.9%).
- Acceptance rate
- 65.9%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $21,600
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $19,638
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 19–24
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Lindenwood University is known for
Measured by the 1,070 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Kinesiology
9.5%
of its bachelor's degrees: three and a half times the 2.6% share across the colleges we cover.
Criminal justice
6.9%
of its bachelor's degrees: about three times the 2.2% share across the colleges we cover.
- Business/Commerce18617.4% of degrees$63,524−7% vs $68,407 nationally
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness1019.4% of degrees$48,991−10% vs $54,562 nationally
- Criminal Justice and Corrections746.9% of degrees$58,400+5% vs $55,378 nationally
- Psychology696.4% of degrees$46,138−9% vs $50,706 nationally
- Education (other)444.1% of degrees$37,795−23% vs $49,113 nationally
- Computer Software and Media Applications383.6% of degrees$45,810−22% vs $58,894 nationally
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Small city
Saint Charles, MO
Undergraduates
4,624
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, larger programs
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
14 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
6%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Lindenwood University
Three things Lindenwood University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
The admit rate fell from 88% to 66% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023
0% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
Most of the enrolled class sent no SAT, so any score range would describe that share of it, not the class. Another 28% sent an ACT. Lindenwood University files test scores under “considered”.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $19,638 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
65.9%
4,441 admitted of 6,743 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
19–24
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
0%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
28%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Lindenwood University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Lindenwood University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $21,600, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $35,436. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $19,638 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$21,600
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$35,436
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$19,638
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $35,436 full cost.
- Under $30k$15,678Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$14,701Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$17,603Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$20,760Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$23,821Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
49%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
66%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$53,278
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$26,000
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate fell from 88% to 66%.
What Lindenwood University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
More colleges on the record
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Other colleges in Missouri
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- University of Central Missouri68.6%
- Rockhurst University69.1%
- Evangel University69.3%
- Kansas City Art Institute60.3%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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