St. Mary's University
About
St. Mary's University is a private Catholic university in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Founded by the Society of Mary (Marianists) in 1852, St. Mary's is the oldest Catholic university in Texas and the American Southwest.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell and non-Pell students graduate at nearly identical rates — a notably small equity gap.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 73 Title IV programs, 15 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 57 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing15 · 20.5%
- No Data57 · 78.1%
- Failing1 · 1.4%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Near the line (±5%)
Programs within five points of the pass line, one cohort year from flipping.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 3
Action history · 7
- Dec 2024Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- May 2024Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Bar Association, Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar · Law (LAW) - Professional schools
- Feb 2024Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Dec 2021Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Oct 2018Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Bar Association, Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar · Law (LAW) - Professional schools
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 997 students received $6.0M in Pell grants, alongside $43.5M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 823 borrowers who entered repayment, 16 (1.9%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at St. Mary's
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 8
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus17
- Non-campus1
- Public property26
Includes 11 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
St. Mary's vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions St. Mary's selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSt. Mary's University | 59% | — | 3,456 | $21,352 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Abilene Christian University | 59% | 66.0% | 5,219 | $27,401 | Doctoral/Professional |
Barry University | 37% | 77.2% | 6,825 | $22,978 | Doctoral/Professional |
Belmont University | 70% | 95.3% | 8,803 | $32,096 | Doctoral/Professional |
Canisius University | 66% | 72.4% | 2,451 | $18,322 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Chapman University | 82% | 65.4% | 9,760 | $47,527 | R2 Research |
Dallas Baptist University | 58% | 88.8% | 4,124 | $30,092 | Doctoral/Professional |
Elon University | 84% | 66.3% | 7,239 | $41,048 | Doctoral/Professional |
Gonzaga University | 86% | 81.7% | 7,470 | $36,371 | Doctoral/Professional |
Hardin-Simmons University | 46% | 90.0% | 1,665 | $21,031 | Doctoral/Professional |
Houston Christian University | 49% | 84.4% | 4,276 | $19,710 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
John Carroll University | 79% | 80.9% | 2,864 | $28,617 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
La Salle University | 58% | 96.6% | 3,153 | $21,409 | Doctoral/Professional |
Loyola University New Orleans | 59% | 93.1% | 4,250 | $22,762 | Doctoral/Professional |
Newman University | 51% | 74.0% | 2,939 | $19,045 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Pacific Lutheran University | 69% | 78.0% | 2,797 | $21,370 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Providence College | 86% | 50.9% | 4,666 | $45,538 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Saint Edward's University | 63% | 81.4% | 3,033 | $23,636 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Saint Leo University | 44% | 78.4% | 9,692 | $18,467 | Doctoral/Professional |
Seattle University | 76% | 76.9% | 7,189 | $34,802 | Doctoral/Professional |
University of Dallas | 73% | 53.4% | 2,078 | $25,470 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | 49% | 95.8% | 3,321 | $28,690 | Doctoral/Professional |
University of Portland | 80% | 89.2% | 3,285 | $36,371 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
University of Redlands | 67% | 82.7% | 3,087 | $22,867 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
University of St Thomas | 69% | 89.9% | 4,301 | $18,762 | Doctoral/Professional |
University of the Incarnate Word | 50% | 98.1% | 7,047 | $20,498 | Doctoral/Professional |
Valparaiso University | 70% | 89.4% | 2,579 | $21,583 | Doctoral/Professional |
Wayland Baptist University | 19% | 56.0% | 2,809 | $20,540 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Western New England University | 64% | 83.5% | 3,674 | $31,170 | Doctoral/Professional |
| Peer group median | 64% | 81.6% | 3,674 | $22,978 |
St. Mary's Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
- Ariana CunninghamDirector, Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (2)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
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