Valor Christian College

Canal Winchester, OH · Private · 414 undergrads · website ↗

Other Protestant
Open admission
$50 application fee

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

14.8%

of students transfer to a four-year institution

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$31,982
$30,000 – $48,000	$32,303
$48,000 – $75,000	$35,397
$75,000 – $110,000	$37,190
Over $110,000	$39,005
All incomes (average)	$34,356

Sticker tuition and fees: $10,012 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Valor Christian College's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

Net price calculator ↗

Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, on campus	$10,000
Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$14,776
Books and supplies	$800
Other expenses, on campus	$23,448
Other expenses, off campus	$23,448

Grants and loans for first-year students, 2022–23

What the college reported for its full-time, first-time students (39 of them) in 2022–23; 100% got some kind of aid, loans included. Each average is over the students who received that kind of aid, not over everyone. It is an older year than the 2025–26 costs above.

Type of aid	Students awarded	Average amount
Any grant or scholarshipFederal, state, local and the college's own	62%	$5,978
Federal Pell GrantNeed-based, from the federal government	59%	$6,217
The college's own grants and scholarshipsNeed- or merit-based, funded by the college	3%	$500
Federal student loansBorrowed by the student; repaid with interest. No Parent PLUS or private loans	74%	$6,224

IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education, Student Financial Aid 2022–23 (SFA2223, provisional release); full-time, first-time degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates; public domain.

Outcomes

Completion rate: 44%
Students with Pell grants: 57%
Earnings @ 10yr: —
Median debt: $15,250

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Open admission
Application fee: $50
Students per faculty member: 32 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 29%

What the college considers in admission decisions, fall 2023

Not reported (open admission).

IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education, Admissions 2023–24 (ADM2023, provisional release), fall 2023; open admission from IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 (revised); public domain.

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (2)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Pastoral Counseling and Specialized Ministries	36	$30,305	$40,520national $36,774	$19,562
Theology and Religious Vocations, Other	5	$29,703	$33,507national $33,939	—

Bachelor's degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Theology and Religious Vocations, Other	41	—	—national $43,566	$39,822

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 10 more programmes at this college have every figure suppressed and are not listed.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in OH

Ohio State University-Mansfield CampusMansfield59.4%Ohio State University-Marion CampusMarion54.2%Bowling Green State University-FirelandsHuron49.8%Ohio State University-Newark CampusNewark47.4%University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash CollegeBlue Ash32.5%Good Samaritan College of Nursing and Health ScienceCincinnati27.3%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 4595 Gender Road, Canal Winchester, OH 43110
Phone: (614) 837-4088
Institutional accreditor: Association for Biblical Higher Education

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. IPEDS Admissions 2023–24 (ADM2023, provisional release) for admission requirements and first-time applicants, admits and enrolments (fall 2023). IPEDS Student Financial Aid 2022–23 (SFA2223, provisional release) for grants and loans to full-time, first-time students. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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