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Austin College · Texas

Austin College scholarships and merit aid

Austin College awards merit scholarships to strong students, with stacking allowed for tuition costs.

Verified Jul 20262 months ago

The short answer

Is Austin College worth a closer look?

Austin College awards automatic merit on admission. Austin College does not publish a GPA or test chart, so you cannot self-calculate the dollars.

Merit tiers61 based on grades or scores

First-year students with school awards24%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025 (school-estimated)

Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

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Outside awardsNo published displacement order
Austin College's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.

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Who this school may work for

Academically accomplished students from Texas and beyond who want reliable merit-based support at a private liberal arts college.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $69,847 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Austin College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$16,528
$30,001–$48,000	$15,687
$48,001–$75,000	$18,823
$75,001–$110,000	$21,608
$110,001+	$28,470
All income levels (average)	$21,107

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $48,680
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $21,107

That works out to roughly a 66% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $61,607 (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: 67%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 79%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $24,500 (~$260/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $61,296
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 32%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 52%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Austin 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 Austin 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.

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If your student brings another scholarship

A new student may apply for unlimited institutional scholarships, but may receive only one institutional award in addition to the general academic scholarship.

A new student may apply for unlimited institutional scholarships, but may receive only one institutional award in addition to the general academic scholarship.

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More school data

From the Austin College Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated figures):

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Austin College’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.

24%of admitsget merit

Average award$35,546Covers ~51% of $69,847 cost of attendance

At Austin College, roughly 1 in 4 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $35,546 — about 51% of total cost.

As filed in Austin College's CDS Section H2A: of 357 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 84 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $35,546. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 373 of 1,162, averaging $33,146. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

The 2024-2025 column is marked "estimated" in the school's own CDS filing — school-projected figures, not final audited counts.

Receive institutional merit24%First-year students, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)

Average merit award$35,546Across recipients, Common Data Set 2024-2025 (school-estimated)

Source: Common Data Set 2024-2025 (verified 2026-07-23)

Other Austin College scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

Art Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityAustin College lists Art Scholarships as an additional institutional scholarship for new students.

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Music Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityAustin College lists Music Scholarships as an additional institutional scholarship for new students.

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Theatre Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityAustin College lists Theatre Scholarships as an additional institutional scholarship for new students.

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Physics Engineering Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityAustin College lists Physics/Engineering Scholarship as an additional institutional scholarship for new students.

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Austin College merit aid FAQ

What is the deadline for Additional Institutional Scholarships Deadline?
Applicants for additional institutional scholarships for new students must submit all application materials by February 1.

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How Austin College compares

133 of 749 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
Austin College is in a recognizable cluster (133 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
133 of 749 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
Austin College is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.

Sources used on this page

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

Policy pageAustin College stacking policy
Cost of attendanceAustin College cost-of-attendance worksheet

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