Stevenson University
Owings Mills, MD
Stevenson University is a private university in Owings Mills, Maryland, a suburb of a large city, with 3,102 undergraduates. Health professions is its signature field: 30% of its bachelor's degrees, three and a half times its share across the colleges we cover. 69% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $62,079 ten years after starting.
Stevenson University admitted 4,354 of 5,233 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (83.2%).
- Acceptance rate
- 83.2%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $40,560
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $26,505
- Average, students with aid
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 Stevenson University is known for
Measured by the 757 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Health professions
30.0%
of its bachelor's degrees: three and a half times the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing22029.1% of degrees$92,710About the $88,910 national median
- Business Administration, Management and Operations7710.2% of degrees$64,956−5% vs $68,257 nationally
- Psychology476.2% of degrees$57,285+13% vs $50,706 nationally
- Biology425.5% of degrees$56,451About the $57,214 national median
- Criminal Justice and Corrections415.4% of degrees$61,348+11% vs $55,378 nationally
- Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management344.5% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
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
Suburb of a large city
Owings Mills, MD
Undergraduates
3,102
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
15 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
1%
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 Stevenson University
Three things Stevenson 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.
Stevenson University reports that test scores are not considered at all.
That is the school’s own answer on the form it fills in every year. A score you send is not read as part of the decision here.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The admit rate rose from 73% to 83% 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
Families paid $26,505 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
83.2%
4,354 admitted of 5,233 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Stevenson 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 Stevenson University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $40,560, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $58,394. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $26,505 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$40,560
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$58,394
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$26,505
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $58,394 full cost.
- Under $30k$15,894Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$20,935Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$26,937Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$29,277Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$31,892Typical 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
69%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
79%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$62,079
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 rose from 73% to 83%.
What Stevenson University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Test scores
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendations
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rank
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Essays on this application
2 essay prompts on the application: you would write all 2.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
- Regular DecisionMarch 1, 2027
Verified July 29, 2026 · Source
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