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Wayne State College

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

Wayne, NE2,848 students
Acceptance Rate
100%
open admission
Median SAT
—
Net Price After Aid
$14.3k
Sticker $6.1k
Graduation Rate
56%
6-year, full-time

Wayne State College is a public institution in Wayne, NE with an acceptance rate of 100% and 2,848 students. The average net price after financial aid is $14,271 per year.

About Wayne State College

A public 4-year town university in Wayne, NE.

Wayne State College campus
Campus · Wayne

Wayne State College is a college in Wayne, NE. It enrolls roughly 2,848 students. The most recent acceptance rate is 100%.

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Acceptance Rate
100%
Open Admission
Total Enrollment
2,848
Medium
Retention
72%
First-years returning
Graduation Rate
56%
6-year, full-time

Your chances at this school

What admitted students look like here. Sign in to see how your own profile compares.

Acceptance Rate
100%
100 of every 100 applicants admitted
Your Chances
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Admitted Student GPA
3.39
Average across admitted students

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

What strengthens an application here

  1. A GPA near 3.39 or higher
    This is the average across admitted students.
  2. Depth in one or two activities
    Sustained commitment, a leadership role, or a result in a few activities says more than a long list of memberships.

Your chances estimate is based on your academic profile and activities — it is a guide, not a guarantee of admission. Decisions weigh essays, recommendations, and fit factors that aren't in the data.

Admissions

What it actually takes to get into Wayne State College. Test scores, GPA, application requirements, and deadlines.

Admitted student profile

Range shown is the middle 50%.

SAT
composite, 1600 scale
—
ACT
composite, 36 scale
1825
22
average
GPA
weighted, 4.5 max
3.043.85
3.39
average

This school doesn't require test scores, so these ranges reflect only students who chose to submit — applicants who submit tend to have higher scores. The real admitted range likely runs lower. Don't rule yourself out on scores alone.

Application requirements

  • Test-blind

Cost & financial aid

Published costs can be misleading. Here's what families actually pay at Wayne State College after grants and scholarships.

Sticker price
—
Tuition $6,057
Average net price after aid
$14,271
58% of students receive financial aid

Net price by family income

Average amount paid out of pocket — tuition, fees, and room & board minus all grant aid.

$0 – $30,000
$11,461
$30,001 – $48,000
$11,502
$48,001 – $75,000
$14,607
$75,001 – $110,000
$17,749
$110,001 +
$17,721

Net price represents the average cost after grants and scholarships for students receiving federal financial aid.

Pell Grant Recipients
26%
Need-based federal grant
Take Federal Loans
32%
Avg loan $12,240 / year
Avg Grant Aid
—
Per receiving student / year

Academics & majors

Where students at Wayne State College concentrate, and how the classroom experience scales.

Student : Faculty
19:1
Class-size proxy
Primary Focus
Education
24% of degrees awarded
Retention
72%
First-years returning
A breakdown of the top majors by share of degrees awarded ships once we finish backfilling per-school program data.

Student body

Who attends Wayne State College. Enrollment, diversity, and where students come from.

Race & ethnicity

  • White35%
  • Asian30%
  • Hispanic5%
  • Black1%
  • Two or more races2%
  • International27%

Gender

  • Female57%
  • Male43%
International
63%
Of total enrollment
Live on Campus
—
Undergraduate residential rate
Total Enrollment
2,848

Outcomes after graduation

What Wayne State College graduates do next — and what they earn.

Median Earnings
$47.1k
10 years after enrollment
Employed at 2 yrs
—
Working or in grad school
Pursue Grad School
—
Within 5 years
Graduation Rate
56%
6-year, full-time

Is it worth it?

Earnings, debt, and price side by side — context for the cost-vs-payoff question, not a ranking.

Median earnings
$47.1k
10 yrs after entry
Typical debt
$12.2k
median, borrowers only
Avg. net price
$14.3k/yr
after aid
  • These numbers reflect who enrolls, not the value the school adds. A college's earnings can look high simply because it admits wealthier, higher-scoring students — not because of what happens there.
  • Earnings vary far more by major and career path than by school. A school-wide median blends engineers and artists into one number that may match no real student.
  • Federal earnings and debt figures cover only students who received federal aid, so they leave out full-pay students and can skew the picture.
  • Net price is an average across aided students and debt is the median for borrowers only — many students borrow nothing. Your actual cost depends on your own aid package.

What this means

$47k is below the national bachelor's-graduate median at the 10-year mark, and a 56% graduation rate is below the national average.

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