Rocky Mountain College · Montana

Rocky Mountain College Merit Aid

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Get merit aid4%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025

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The merit-aid verdict at Rocky Mountain College

Rocky Mountain College looks for students with professional focus and strong personal values.

Who this school is for

Students pursuing specialized career paths or demonstrating commitment to ethics and community will find meaningful opportunities here.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $53,142 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Rocky Mountain College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$15,404
$30,001–$48,000	$13,781
$48,001–$75,000	$14,957
$75,001–$110,000	$19,892
$110,001+	$25,150
All income levels (average)	$19,751

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $35,582
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $19,751

That works out to roughly a 57% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $46,093 (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: 48%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 69%
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): $49,036
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 32%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 59%

How to read these numbers

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

Amount not published

Rmc Native American Outreach Nao Student Scholarship

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Amount not published

Winston L Cox Memorial Scholarship

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Amount not published

Keith Brown Ethics Endowment

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Amount not published

Aicpa John L Carey Scholarships Program

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$15,000

High Achievement

Automatic

GPA: 3.4

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$17,000

Academic Excellence

Automatic

GPA: 3.83

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$13,000

Merit Award

Automatic

GPA: 2.9

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$5,000

Rmc Grant

Automatic

GPA: 2

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$8,000

Deans Award

Automatic

GPA: 2.5

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$11,000

Presidential Scholarship

Automatic

GPA: 3

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$12,000

Trustee Scholarship

Automatic

GPA: 3.5

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Common Data Set snapshot

From the Rocky Mountain College Common Data Set 2024-2025:

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

4%of admitsget merit

Average award$17,551Covers ~33% of $53,142 cost of attendance

At Rocky Mountain College, roughly 1 in 25 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $17,551 — about 33% of total cost.

As filed in Rocky Mountain College's CDS Section H2A: of 280 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 10 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $17,551. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 46 of 826, averaging $16,771. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

Receive institutional merit4%First-year students, CDS 2024-2025

Average merit award$17,551Across recipients, CDS 2024-2025

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

Sources used on this page

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

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