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Ohio Dominican Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Ohio Dominican

Ohio Dominican awards merit aid across diverse talents—from arts to academics—with strong transfer student support.

Who this school is for

Students with specific talents in music, athletics, or academics—and those transferring from another college—will find dedicated scholarship pathways here.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $53,950 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Ohio Dominican, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$16,997
$30,001–$48,000	$17,459
$48,001–$75,000	$19,572
$75,001–$110,000	$21,907
$110,001+	$22,999
All income levels (average)	$20,079

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $35,720
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $20,079

That works out to roughly a 58% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $47,621 (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: 41%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 64%
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): $51,748
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 49%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 68%

How to read these numbers

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

$2,000

Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship

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$12,000–$18,000

Transfer Scholarship Package

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$14,000–$21,000

Odu Scholarship Package

AutomaticRenewable

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$1,000

Cheerleading Scholarship

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$1,000

Chorus Scholarship

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$1,000+

Rotc Scholarship

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$1,000

Band Scholarship

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Up to $8,000

Odu Catholic High Schools Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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Lesser-known scholarships at Ohio Dominican

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

Choose Ohio First

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program is a state-funded scholarship program for students in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine fields.

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Noyce Teacher Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityThe Noyce Teacher Scholarship provides tuition funds to students who aspire to teach biology, mathematics or chemistry in secondary schools located in underserved communities.

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St Albert Scholars Program

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityODU's St. Albert Scholars Program is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative for students majoring in Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Science.

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Scholarship

Amount$1,000EligibilityThe Honors Scholarship provides an additional $1,000 per year to students who participate in ODU's Honors Program.

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Scholarships

Amount$1,000+EligibilityOhio Dominican University Honors scholarships range from an additional $1,000 per year up to the full cost of tuition.

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Distinction Scholarship

Amount$1,000EligibilityThe Honors Distinction Scholarship covers full tuition over four years for students in ODU's Honors Program.

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How Ohio Dominican compares across our verified dataset

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

coaOhio Dominican cost-of-attendance worksheet
tierPhi Theta Kappa Scholarship
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