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unitid 100858 · Auburn, AL · public 4-year · city (small)

Auburn University

Public university in Auburn, Alabama, US

founded
1856
enrollment 2023
35,381
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
auburn.edu
Campus of Auburn University

J. Glover (AUtiger) · CC BY-SA 2.5

Auburn University is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 27,900 undergraduate students, over 6,200 graduate students, and a total enrollment of more than 34,100 students with 1,435 faculty members, Auburn is the second-largest university in Alabama. It is one of the state's two flagship public universities. The university is one of 146 U.S. universities classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". wikipedia rev 1359699846 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

46%

9th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

26,816

92nd pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

13%

undergrads on Pell grants

3rd pctl among public 4-years

completion

82%

finish within 150% time

95th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$34,919

96th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$24,323

after aid, aided students

98th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$65,337

after entry, Title IV students

86th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$21,000

63rd pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $16,681 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    20%
  • 30-48k
    12%
  • 48-75k
    14%
  • 75-110k
    not reported
  • 110k+
    not reported
Median family income
$72,031
First-generation students
17%
In-state tuition & fees
$12,890

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.1× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Business Administration, Management and Operations.562$76,513$22,250
Business Administration, Management and Operations.337$145,621—
Finance and Financial Management Services.323$83,481$20,500
Biology, General.302$78,788$23,750
Marketing.284$67,766$20,500
Mechanical Engineering.230$91,940$24,514
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.222$71,237$20,449
Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences.204—$24,250
Psychology, General.203$48,338$20,500
Computer and Information Sciences, General.156$104,342$25,000
Architectural Engineering.147$99,989$22,000
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration.143$139,069—

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 2,614 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsbasketball player (590) · researcher (492) · American football player (403) · politician (101) · university teacher (96) · baseball player (67) · swimmer (60) · military officer (53)

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359699846), CC BY-SA 4.0.