Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH
Xavier University is a private, Catholic university in Cincinnati, Ohio, a large city, with 4,207 undergraduates. Health professions and kinesiology are its signature fields: together they make up 33% of its bachelor's degrees, about three times their share across the colleges we cover. 69% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $64,873 ten years after starting.
Xavier University admitted 14,694 of 16,750 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (87.7%).
- Acceptance rate
- 87.7%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $50,640
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $32,997
- Average, students with aid
- SAT, middle 50%
- 1120–1300
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 Xavier University is known for
Measured by the 1,358 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Health professions
27.5%
of its bachelor's degrees: about three times the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.
Kinesiology
5.5%
of its bachelor's degrees: about twice the 2.6% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing34125.1% of degrees$79,254−11% vs $88,910 nationally
- Marketing1047.7% of degrees$73,414+6% vs $69,303 nationally
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness755.5% of degrees$60,804+11% vs $54,562 nationally
- Political Science and Government584.3% of degrees$63,347About the $63,293 national median
- Psychology554.1% of degrees$54,981+8% vs $50,706 nationally
- Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities544.0% of degrees$69,546+31% vs $53,072 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
Large city
Cincinnati, OH
Undergraduates
4,207
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Doctoral and professional university
Living on campus
A quarter to half
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
10 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
2%
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 Xavier University
Three things Xavier 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 rose from 74% to 88% 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
361 admitted from a waitlist of 823.
A waitlist offer here is not a near-miss anyone can plan around.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
14% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 26% sent an ACT. Xavier University files test scores under “considered”.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
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
87.7%
14,694 admitted of 16,750 applicants
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
1120–1300
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
22–29
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Average GPA of admitted students
3.66
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
14%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
26%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Xavier 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 Xavier University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $50,640, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $65,476. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $32,997 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$50,640
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$65,476
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$32,997
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $65,476 full cost.
- Under $30k$26,728Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$28,201Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$32,175Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$33,824Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$35,451Typical 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
78%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$64,873
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$23,250
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 74% to 88%.
What Xavier University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorvery important
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
- GPAvery important
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
- Essayimportant
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
- Recommendationsimportant
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Not considered
- Legacy
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
The waitlist, as the school reported it
Published counts, including the ones schools rarely lead with.
- Offered a waitlist place
- 823
- Admitted from the waitlist
- 361
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in Ohio
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- University of Cincinnati-Main Campus88%
- Kent State University at Kent86.6%
- The University of Findlay86.3%
- Ohio Dominican University85.2%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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