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Saint Mary's scholarships and merit aid

Two prices: the posted one, and yours.

Posted price$70,119per year · 2026-2027 · cost of attendance
Yours?depends on the rules below

The short answer

Saint Mary's 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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The award collection

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.

Where does your student land?

  1. Rotc ScholarshipsAmount not publishedNot automatic
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Rotc Scholarships

    Amount not published

    Published award termsNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

  2. Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship$1,500Not automaticRenewable
    Published awardOther selection criteria

    Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship

    $1,500

    Published amountNot recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read the selection rules. Confirm the policy year with the school.

    Start with the award’s published eligibility.

    RenewableCheck the conditions

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What makes Saint Mary's different

Merit awards at Saint Mary's prioritize artistic talent and accomplished community college transfers.

Merit tiers2See who qualifies
First-year students with school awards25%First-year students, CDS 2023-2024
Research checkedJul 2026By our research team

Selection beyond grades and scores

Start with the selection process.

These awards are not recorded as automatic on grades and scores. Read each award's selection rules, application steps and dates. Meeting a minimum is not an award offer.

  1. Read the selection rules

    Look for the school's stated criteria and whether an additional application is needed.

  2. Check the application dates

    Confirm the current admission and scholarship deadlines directly with the school.

  3. Know what happens next year

    Check renewal, credit requirements and how other aid affects the award.

The fine print / Three questions to carry forward

Before you count on it.

Does it apply to us? Confirm the entering year, residency and every eligibility condition.

Can we keep it? Check renewal GPA, credits and how long the award lasts.

Can we combine it? Ask how outside scholarships and other school awards change the offer.

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Who this school may work for

Talented musicians and visual artists, as well as Phi Theta Kappa members transferring from two-year colleges, should look closely.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $70,119 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Saint Mary's, academic year 2021-22
Family incomeAverage net price paid
$0–$30,000$16,760
$30,001–$48,000$18,152
$48,001–$75,000$21,014
$75,001–$110,000$23,680
$110,001+$30,443
All income levels (average)$25,292

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23
$53,230
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22
$25,292

That works out to roughly a 62% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $66,478 (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
69%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort
88%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers
$27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21)
$59,354
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22
24%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22
57%
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More school data

From the Saint Mary's Common Data Set 2023-2024:

Merit penetrationHow likely is merit aid here?From Saint Mary's’s Common Data Set: the share of first-year students who receive institutional merit and the average dollar amount when they do.
25%of admitsget merit
Average award$33,338Covers ~48% of $70,119 cost of attendance

At Saint Mary's, roughly 1 in 4 first-year admits receive institutional merit aid. The average award is $33,338 — about 48% of total cost.

As filed in Saint Mary's's CDS Section H2A: of 420 first-time, full-time degree-seeking freshmen, 106 had no financial need and received institutional merit (non-need) scholarship or grant aid, averaging $33,338. Across all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates: 398 of 1,390, averaging $28,691. Athletic awards are excluded per the CDS definition.

Receive institutional merit25%First-year students, Common Data Set 2023-2024
Average merit award$33,338Across recipients, Common Data Set 2023-2024

Source: Common Data Set 2023-2024 (verified 2026-07-23)

Other Saint Mary's scholarships worth checking

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

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityMusic Scholarships are awarded on the basis of an interview or audition around April 1.

Source

Amount$2,000EligibilityThe Visual Art and Design Scholarship requires students to submit an art portfolio by March 1; scholarships are $2,000 awards renewable all four years.

Source

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How Saint Mary's compares

  • 665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.

    Saint Mary's 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 Saint Mary's’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

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