Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology · Indiana

Rose-Hulman Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Rose-Hulman

Engineering and technology-focused aid for students who excel in STEM and hands-on innovation.

Who this school is for

Rose-Hulman rewards students with strong STEM aptitude and real-world engineering experience, including robotics competition participants and creative problem-solvers.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $84,817 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Rose-Hulman, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$36,843
$30,001–$48,000	$33,742
$48,001–$75,000	$37,396
$75,001–$110,000	$38,843
$110,001+	$45,994
All income levels (average)	$42,513

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $58,649
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $42,513

That works out to roughly a 45% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $77,890 (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: 78%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 92%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $25,000 (~$265/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $101,253
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 13%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 46%

How to read these numbers

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

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National Merit Finalist Scholarship

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Amount not published

Trueb Scholarship

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Amount not published

Ingram Scholarship

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$6,000

Conru Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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Amount not published

Rose Hulman Merit Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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$1,000–$2,500

Visual And Performing Arts Scholarships

ApplicationRenewable

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$1,000–$2,500

Competition Teams Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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$10,000

Vex Robotics Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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$10,000

First Robotics Scholarship

ApplicationRenewable

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Lesser-known scholarships at Rose-Hulman

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

Provost Scholarship

Amount$10,000–$20,000EligibilityStudents applying to study biology, chemistry, or biochemistry are automatically considered for the Provost Scholarship, which adds $10,000 to $20,000 of grant assistance.

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Noblitt Scholars Program

AmountFull tuitionEligibilityThe Noblitt Scholars Program is a four-year invitation-only program whose scholars receive financial assistance with enhanced scholarships up to full tuition.

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Bakota Family Scholarship

Amount$2,500EligibilityThe Bakota Family Scholarship is a one-year $2,500 scholarship for a sophomore majoring in electrical, mechanical, or chemical engineering with at least a 2.7 cumulative GPA and a full-time summer job.

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How Rose-Hulman compares across our verified dataset

668 of 750 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Rose-Hulman 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.
132 of 750 verified schools publish a dedicated National Merit Finalist package.
Rose-Hulman is one of them. NMF packages typically carry their own stacking and renewal carve-outs separate from the standard automatic merit ladder; confirm those before assuming the headline NMF value is final.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Rose-Hulman’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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