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Goucher College · Maryland

Goucher College scholarships and merit aid

Goucher rewards students drawn to its distinctive liberal arts model and mission-driven community.

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The short answer

Is Goucher College worth a closer look?

Goucher College may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

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First-year students with school awards31%First-year students, CDS 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

Up to $20,000

Dorsey Scholarship

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$1,000

Colleges That Change Lives Scholarship

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Who this school may work for

Look here if you want a close-knit campus experience with strong emphasis on social justice, global learning, and interdisciplinary study.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $57,500 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Goucher College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$13,471
$30,001–$48,000	$18,066
$48,001–$75,000	$20,403
$75,001–$110,000	$24,781
$110,001+	$32,220
All income levels (average)	$22,470

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $53,350
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $22,470

That works out to roughly a 68% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $70,544 (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: 57%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 79%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $26,000 (~$276/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $53,023
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 35%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 50%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Goucher 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 Goucher 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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More school data

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

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

31%of admitsget merit

Average award$42,958Covers ~75% of $57,500 cost of attendance

At Goucher College, roughly 1 in 3 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $42,958 — about 75% of total cost.

As filed in Goucher College's CDS Section H2A: of 265 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 82 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $42,958. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 285 of 979, averaging $38,065. 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 merit31%First-year students, Common Data Set 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

Average merit award$42,958Across recipients, Common Data Set 2025-2026 (school-estimated)

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

Other Goucher College scholarships worth checking

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

Dorsey Scholarship Program

AmountUp to $20,000EligibilityThe Dorsey Scholarship program is Goucher College’s flagship undergraduate scholarship and most competitive award, with up to $20,000 in funds over 4 years.

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Suzanne Fineman Cohen 56 International Scholars Program

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Suzanne Fineman Cohen ’56 International Scholars Program offers dedicated study abroad scholarship funds for students who complete the program.

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Goucher College merit aid FAQ

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How Goucher College compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Goucher College is one of them. The cohort minority (84 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 Goucher College’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceGoucher College cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersDorsey Scholarship
Merit tiersColleges That Change Lives Scholarship

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