unitid 236939 · Pullman, WA · public 4-year · town (distant)
Washington State University
Public university in Pullman, Washington, US
- founded
- 1959
- enrollment 2023
- 30,919
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- wsu.edu
Washington State University is a public land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington, United States. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant universities in the American West. With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,278 and a total enrollment of 28,581, it is the second largest institution of higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". wikipedia rev 1360194251 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
87%
57th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
21,099
89th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
27%
undergrads on Pell grants
35th pctl among public 4-years
completion
61%
finish within 150% time
79th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$27,648
78th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$14,971
after aid, aided students
65th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$68,905
after entry, Title IV students
89th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$19,500
49th 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 $7,074 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
- 0-30k25%
- 30-48k15%
- 48-75k18%
- 75-110k16%
- 110k+26%
- Median family income
- $44,850
- First-generation students
- 34%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $13,391
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.5× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 513 | $56,856 | $21,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 494 | $142,779 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 351 | $84,931 | $21,500 |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods. | 322 | — | — |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 262 | — | $20,500 |
| Biology, General. | 243 | $63,464 | $21,500 |
| Social Sciences, General. | 233 | $59,442 | $25,409 |
| Marketing. | 230 | $82,094 | $19,949 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 221 | $92,146 | $21,000 |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods. | 218 | $62,904 | $22,960 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 216 | $69,669 | $21,102 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 200 | $82,433 | $19,762 |
— 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 · 2,484 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 occupationsresearcher (736) · basketball player (550) · American football player (214) · university teacher (205) · politician (71) · baseball player (39) · economist (37) · Canadian football player (36)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Paul Allen
85 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dolph Lundgren
72 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Timothy Leary
61 wikis · Public domain
Hary Gunarto
54 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Edward R. Murrow
50 wikis · Public domain
Klay Thompson
49 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Peter Snell
38 wikis · Public domain
Patty Murray
38 wikis · Public domain
Philip Abelson
36 wikis · Public domain
Bernard Lagat
33 wikis · GFDL
Patrick Rothfuss
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aron Baynes
29 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sherman Alexie
29 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Bianca Kajlich
23 wikis · CC BY 2.0
John M. Fabian
22 wikis · Public domain
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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.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1360194251), CC BY-SA 4.0.