Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN
Wabash College is a private liberal arts college in Crawfordsville, Indiana, a town 10 to 35 miles from a city, with 866 undergraduates. Interdisciplinary studies and languages are its signature fields: together they make up 22% of its bachelor's degrees, about six times their share across the colleges we cover. 77% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $69,952 ten years after starting.
Wabash College admitted 1,191 of 1,897 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (62.8%).
- Acceptance rate
- 62.8%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $50,800
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $24,336
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 24–29
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 Wabash College is known for
Measured by the 199 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Interdisciplinary studies
12.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: about four times the 2.9% share across the colleges we cover.
Languages
9.5%
of its bachelor's degrees: about nine times the 1.1% share across the colleges we cover.
- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics2512.6% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Political Science and Government2010.1% of degrees$74,061+17% vs $63,293 nationally
- Biology178.5% of degrees$62,653+10% vs $57,214 nationally
- Research and Experimental Psychology178.5% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- History136.5% of degrees$59,221+17% vs $50,680 nationally
- Computer Science115.5% 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
Town, 10–35 miles from a city
Crawfordsville, IN
Undergraduates
866
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Baccalaureate college, arts and sciences focus
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
9 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.
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
62.8%
1,191 admitted of 1,897 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 540–630Math 560–670
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
24–29
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
51%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
12%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Wabash College?
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 Wabash College costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $50,800, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $65,144. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $24,336 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$50,800
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$65,144
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$24,336
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $65,144 full cost.
- Under $30k$16,586Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$13,526Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$18,175Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$18,681Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$30,511Typical 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
77%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
93%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$69,952
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$27,000
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.
What Wabash College says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Essayconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
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
Essays on this application
1 essay prompt on the application: you would write it.
Published deadlines
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