Barton College · North Carolina

Barton Merit Aid

Verified Jul 202625 days ago· HX-AUTO

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Get merit aid13%First-year students, CDS 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

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The merit-aid verdict at Barton

Barton College rewards transfer students and honors scholars with dedicated pathways.

Who this school is for

Transfer students from community colleges and those seeking an honors program at a smaller faith-based college will find strong support here.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $53,606 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Barton, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$19,641
$30,001–$48,000	$18,497
$48,001–$75,000	$22,510
$75,001–$110,000	$25,308
$110,001+	$30,286
All income levels (average)	$23,626

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $37,250
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $23,626

That works out to roughly a 55% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $51,935 (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: 46%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 65%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $25,877 (~$274/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $47,913
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 50%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 76%

How to read these numbers

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

Amount not published

Transfer Honors Scholarship

Application

GPA: 2.85

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$3,500

Disciples Of Christ Scholarship

Application

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Amount not published

Transfer Opportunity Grant

Application

GPA: 2.5

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Amount not published

Transfer Incentive Award

Application

GPA: 2.5

Source

Amount not published

Transfer High Honors Scholarship

Application

GPA: 3.2

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$1,000

Alumni Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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Renewal terms

Maintain 2.5 GPA

Source

Amount not published

Phi Theta Kappa

Application

GPA: 3.5

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$1,000

Multiple Family Member Discount

Application

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Common Data Set snapshot

From the Barton Common Data Set 2025-2026 (school-estimated figures):

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

13%of admitsget merit

Average award$14,194Covers ~26% of $53,606 cost of attendance

At Barton, roughly 1 in 8 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $14,194 — about 26% of total cost.

As filed in Barton's CDS Section H2A: of 273 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 36 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $14,194. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 172 of 906, averaging $14,605. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

The 2025-2026 column is marked "estimated" in the school's own CDS filing — school-projected figures, not final audited counts.

Receive institutional merit13%First-year students, CDS 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

Average merit award$14,194Across recipients, CDS 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

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

Lesser-known scholarships at Barton

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

Whitehurst Family Honors Program Scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityHigh-achieving students may be invited to participate in the Whitehurst Family Honors Program, which includes scholarship opportunities through the Honors Program competition hosted each spring.

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How Barton compares across our verified dataset

668 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Barton 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 Barton’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

coaBarton cost-of-attendance worksheet
tierTransfer Honors Scholarship
scholarshipWhitehurst Family Honors Program Scholarships

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