Saint Peter, MN · Private · Every figure is for a student starting in fall 2027. We work each one out again whenever we update the site.
How to pay for Gustavus Adolphus College
What a year costs here, what brings it down, and what a SmartTuition plan could save a family like yours.
Paying for four years here
Four years here, after grants
$114,586
A SmartTuition plan could save a family like this about $6,700.
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester, using your own numbers.
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A family of four with good credit and $500 a month for college. How we worked these out ↓
A year at Gustavus Adolphus College
| Full price | $77,147 |
| After grants, at your income | $23,893 |
100% of first-year students here got a grant or scholarship from the college in 2023-24, $38,004 on average.
At this income, 7 of Minnesota's other 13 colleges cost less after grants, and 6 cost more. See them all →
What can bring it down
Merit scholarships. Gustavus’s academic merit scholarships run from $25,000 to $42,000 a year. They come with admission and are set by the official unweighted GPA, talent or other criteria.
Pay less for college
A SmartTuition plan shows what to pay from where, each semester.
At Gustavus Adolphus College, our scenarios for Minnesota households with good parent credit show a SmartTuition plan saving a median of about $6,700 over four years. How we worked this out ↓
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What Gustavus Adolphus College says it awards for grades and test scores.
Gustavus’s academic merit scholarships run from $25,000 to $42,000 a year. They come with admission and are set by the official unweighted GPA, talent or other criteria.
“Merit scholarships are awarded at the time of admission based on academic achievement (official unweighted high school GPA), talent, or other criteria established by the College.”
How we worked these out
The family
A family of four with good parent credit and $500 a month to put toward college, and the savings you pick. In state, the grants are what Gustavus Adolphus College reports families at that income got, on average. Your own will differ, and a family with no aid pays close to the full price.
What a SmartTuition plan saves
The difference, over four years, between a SmartTuition plan and the standard approach: savings first, then loans for the rest. It counts loan interest and the federal tax credit. For a family that lives in Minnesota, it also counts Minnesota's tax deduction for money you put through its 529 plan.
The $6,700 in the “Pay less for college” box near the top of this page is the median saving in Gustavus Adolphus College's own scenarios. Each scenario is a household that lives in Minnesota, with an income from $45,000 to $200,000 and savings of none, $40,000 or $100,000 in a 529. We price Gustavus Adolphus College at the aid it reports for that income.
Every scenario has parents with good credit and $500 a month toward college. The card above uses the same two. A scenario where the parents would borrow more than $65,000 is left out.
The prices by income
- They describe students who got aid.
- “Over $110,000” has no upper limit, so it averages families just over $110,000 with far wealthier ones. A family at $115,000 should expect to pay less than it shows.
- Each range is reported on its own, so the prices do not always rise with income.
Grants from the college
How many first-year students got a grant from Gustavus Adolphus College, and the average, are the Department of Education's figures for full-time students who started in 2023-24. They cover every income. The prices after grants already count these grants, so don't take them off again. The Department of Education's page for Gustavus Adolphus College →
Where the prices come from
Where the prices come from: Gustavus Adolphus College's own 2026-27 tuition and fees, from its website, carried forward to 2027 at 4.0% a year. Housing, food and books are the College Scorecard's. The grants are the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard (2025-26 figures), carried forward the same way. Each price after grants is the cost less those grants. The average price after grants counts the students who get federal aid. Your own figure will be different.
SmartTuition.ai is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Gustavus Adolphus College. Aid policies change; check current terms with the college's aid office.
Nearby at your income
- St. Olaf College$21,937 a year
- Carleton College$23,291 a year
- Gustavus Adolphus College$23,893 a year
- College of Saint Benedict$24,220 a year
- The College of Saint Scholastica$27,905 a year
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