Blackburn College
Blackburn College admitted 63% of applicants. Its average net price after aid was $25,577 a year. Within six years, 45% of first-time, full-time students graduated.
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Admissions
- Admission rate
- 63%
- SAT/ACT scores
- Not required
Cost
- Cost of attendance, before aid
- $40,502 a year
- Average net price after aid
- $25,577 a year
- Net price for families earning under $30,000
- $24,925 a year
- Tuition and fees
- $29,420 a year
Outcomes
- Graduation rate (within 6 years)
- 45%
- Students who return for a second year
- 67%
- Median earnings 10 years after starting
- $48,794 a year
- Median debt at graduation
- $21,857
Students
- Undergraduates
- 471
- Undergraduates with a Pell Grant
- 49%
- Student-faculty ratio
- 11 to 1
- Campus setting
- Town
Most common fields of study
Share of the degrees the college awarded, by field.
- Education
- 39%
- Business, management and marketing
- 15%
- Biological and biomedical sciences
- 13%
- Visual and performing arts
- 13%
- Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness and kinesiology
- 7%
Colleges with similar selectivity
Closest by admission rate and SAT scores.
- Wheeling University WV · 63% admitted
- Dominican University New York NY · 63% admitted
- Farmingdale State College NY · 63% admitted
- Oregon State University-Cascades Campus OR · 63% admitted
- Southern Methodist University TX · 63% admitted
- SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry NY · 63% admitted
More colleges in Illinois
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL · 42% admitted
- University of Illinois Chicago IL · 77% admitted
- Illinois State University IL · 88% admitted
- DePaul University IL · 76% admitted
- Chamberlain University-Illinois IL · 83% admitted
- Loyola University Chicago IL · 82% admitted
- Northern Illinois University IL · 70% admitted
- Northwestern University IL · 7.7% admitted
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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data (October 2026 release). Admission figures are reported by the college; check its website for current requirements.