Head-to-head

Key differences

The biggest gaps between these schools, largest first.

1. 1

   Mount St. Mary's's grants cover 63% of its full price on average, vs. 32% at Southern Adventist

   Aid generosity
2. 2

   Southern Adventist's yield is 25 pts higher than Mount St. Mary's's

   Yield rate
3. 3

   Mount St. Mary's grads earn $10.3K more ten years out than Southern Adventist's ($64,072 vs. $53,723)

   Median earnings, 10 yrs
4. 4

   Southern Adventist is more diverse (index 0.76 vs. 0.70)

   Diversity index
5. 5

   Southern Adventist has 1.6× as many undergrads as Mount St. Mary's

   Undergrads
6. 6

   Mount St. Mary's has 5 pts more first-gen students than Southern Adventist (23% vs. 18%)

   First-generation students

The shape of each school

Each axis is a national rank among 4-year colleges; further out = more of it.