Albany College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Private College in Albany, NY. Six-year graduation rate 57%. Median 10-year earnings $131,426.
A decade after enrolling, the median Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences student earns $131,426 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. The six-year graduation rate is 57%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,500, neither a bargain nor a burden. It also moves people — 3.4% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.19 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences admits 53% of applicants and is genuinely selective — roughly one in two applicants are turned away. The applicant pool runs to 2,826, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 7%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 35% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 550–680 | 35 (35%) |
| SAT Math | 560–700 | |
| ACT Composite | 23–31 | 6 (6%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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57% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention is strong at 86%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. With 35% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. The 10:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 509 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $30,232 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $22,404 at $0–30k versus $33,753 at $110k+. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $22,588, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Most students borrow — 90% take federal loans to cover the gap.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 134 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $22,404 |
| $30–48k | $22,566 |
| $48–75k | $29,395 |
| $75–110k | $31,067 |
| $110k+ | $33,753 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 456 of these 509 students, totalling $5,210,487 — an average of $11,427 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Albany County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)