Skip to main content
CollegeROIData

College Debt & ROI in Ky

34 colleges and universities in Ky with 514 school+major combinations analyzed.

See full Ky college ROI rankings →
34
Schools
$26K
Avg Median Debt
$55K
Avg Year 1 Earnings
100%
Avg Graduation Rate

All Schools in Ky

Simmons College of Kentucky

private · 4 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $6K
Avg earnings: $51K/yr

Berea College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $14K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

American National University-Pikeville

private · 1 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $17K
Avg earnings: $62K/yr

Alice Lloyd College

private · 13 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $19K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Thomas More University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $19K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Lindsey Wilson College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $51K/yr

Morehead State University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

Campbellsville University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $23K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Clear Creek Baptist Bible College

private · 1 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $40K/yr

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

private · 7 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $48K/yr

Georgetown College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $24K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

University of Kentucky

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $63K/yr

Transylvania University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $56K/yr

Kentucky Mountain Bible College

private · 1 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Western Kentucky University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $25K
Avg earnings: $57K/yr

University of Louisville

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 99%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $60K/yr

Asbury University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Kentucky Christian University

private · 11 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $49K/yr

Centre College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Eastern Kentucky University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $26K
Avg earnings: $56K/yr

Union College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $54K/yr

Kentucky State University

public · 18 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Midway University

private · 14 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Bellarmine University

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Northern Kentucky University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $27K
Avg earnings: $56K/yr

Sullivan University

private · 10 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $28K
Avg earnings: $66K/yr

Beckfield College-Florence

private · 2 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $28K
Avg earnings: $64K/yr

University of the Cumberlands

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $29K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Brescia University

private · 19 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $29K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Kentucky Wesleyan College

private · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $31K
Avg earnings: $53K/yr

Spalding University

private · 14 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $31K
Avg earnings: $52K/yr

Murray State University

public · 20 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $32K
Avg earnings: $58K/yr

University of Pikeville

private · 18 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $32K
Avg earnings: $55K/yr

Galen College of Nursing-Louisville

private · 1 majors · Grad rate: 100%

Avg debt: $35K
Avg earnings: $62K/yr

Frequently Asked Questions

CollegeROIData tracks 34 colleges and universities in Ky, covering 514 school+major combinations with debt and earnings data.

The average median student debt across all school+major combinations in Ky is $26K. First-year earnings average $55K.

Among tracked schools, Simmons College of Kentucky has one of the lowest average debt levels in Ky. Use our school pages to compare ROI scores by major.

The this entity record above pulls directly from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. college cost, debt, and post-graduation earnings distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. degree-granting institutions with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.

Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, 2026.