Bryan College · Tennessee

Bryan College Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Bryan College

A Christ-centered campus where academic, artistic, athletic, and service-oriented merit aid rewards driven students across many disciplines.

Who this school is for

Students seeking a faith-based liberal arts experience with strong merit-aid opportunities for high-achievers in academics, the arts, athletics, or service.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $21,700 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Bryan College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$19,500
$30,001–$48,000	$19,904
$48,001–$75,000	$21,807
$75,001–$110,000	$20,655
$110,001+	$21,035
All income levels (average)	$20,614

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $19,800
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $20,614

That works out to roughly a 34% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $31,270 (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: 50%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 71%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $23,000 (~$244/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $54,434
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 45%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 54%

How to read these numbers

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

Where you landAutomatic merit aid by ACT compositeEach bar marks the ACT score range that qualifies for the tier.

Platinum Academic Scholarship$5,600

ACT 27GPA 3.8

Silver Academic Scholarship$4,100

ACT 24GPA 3.6

Crimson Academic Scholarship$2,500

ACT 21GPA 3.4

Not on this ladder: Civil Service Transition Award, Deans Scholarship, Sibling Grant, Lions Pride Transfer Scholarship, De And Partner Site Scholarship, National Merit Scholarship, Presidential Scholarship, Rhea County Scholarship, Christian Leader Foreign Missionary, Academic Scholarships, Alumni Grant, Bryan Opportunity Scholarship Program, Phi Theta Kappa Award, Athletic Scholarships, The Bryan Investment Scholarship — application required, holistic, or scored on a different axis.

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Tier	ACT composite	Award
Platinum Academic Scholarship	27	$5,600
Silver Academic Scholarship	24	$4,100
Crimson Academic Scholarship	21	$2,500

Percentage of tuition (see source)

Civil Service Transition Award

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Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Civil Service Transition Award

Deans Scholarship

Sibling Grant

Lions Pride Transfer Scholarship

De And Partner Site Scholarship

National Merit Scholarship

Presidential Scholarship

Rhea County Scholarship

Christian Leader Foreign Missionary

Academic Scholarships

Alumni Grant

Bryan Opportunity Scholarship Program

Phi Theta Kappa Award

Athletic Scholarships

The Bryan Investment Scholarship

Crimson Academic Scholarship

Silver Academic Scholarship

Platinum Academic Scholarship

Faith And Business Mba Scholarship

Performing Arts Scholarship

Veritas The Honors Program Scholarship

Daniel And Cheryl Van Andel Excellence In Nursing Scholarship

Reba Arnold Fitzgerald Education Scholarship