Albion College · Michigan

Albion College Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Albion College

Albion College rewards connection, creativity, and transfer achievement with multiple scholarship pathways.

Rules that bite at Albion College

The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Albion College's own published policy, not generic advice.

capHard $75,340 cost-of-attendance ceiling
Institutional aid at Albion College cannot push the package past $75,340. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.

Who this school is for

Students with artistic talent, family ties to Albion, or a Phi Theta Kappa background will find dedicated awards here. Out-of-state applicants also have targeted support.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $75,340 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Albion College, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Albion College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$10,036
$30,001–$48,000	$9,772
$48,001–$75,000	$12,085
$75,001–$110,000	$16,656
$110,001+	$24,368
All income levels (average)	$14,301

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $56,950
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $14,301

That works out to roughly a 80% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $69,986 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 62%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 71%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $58,799
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 52%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 61%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Albion College's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Albion College's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

$34,000

Ferguson

AutomaticRenewable

GPA: 3.13

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$39,000

Webster

AutomaticRenewable

GPA: 3.6

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$30,000

Kresge

AutomaticRenewable

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Up to $1,000

John Wesley Matching Scholarship

Application

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$42,000

Presidential

AutomaticRenewable

GPA: 3.8

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$3,000

Referral

ApplicationRenewable

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$36,000

Briton

AutomaticRenewable

GPA: 3.39

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$3,000

Phi Theta Kappa

ApplicationRenewable

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$3,000

Out Of State Scholarships

AutomaticRenewable

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$3,000

Alumni Legacy

ApplicationRenewable

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Outside scholarship stacking policy

Outside scholarships only trigger an aid adjustment if total aid would exceed the cost of attendance (or the student's aid eligibility cap); below that ceiling, awards are not displaced.

Outside scholarships only trigger an aid adjustment if total aid would exceed the cost of attendance (or the student's aid eligibility cap); below that ceiling, awards are not displaced.

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Lesser-known scholarships at Albion College

Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.

Fine Arts Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityFine Arts scholarships are based on demonstrated talent for students planning to participate in art, music, or theatre.

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How Albion College compares across our verified dataset

241 of 750 verified schools in our dataset use cost-of-attendance cap displacement.
Albion College is in a recognizable cluster (241 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
668 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Albion College is one of them. The cohort minority (82 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Albion College’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

policyAlbion College stacking policy
coaAlbion College cost-of-attendance worksheet
tierFerguson

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