Barry University
Private College in Miami, FL. Six-year graduation rate 38%. Median 10-year earnings $55,966.
Students who entered Barry University land at a median of $55,966 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 38% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Graduates carry a median of $26,997 in debt — in line with the national norm. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 3.6% of students move from the bottom income quintile to the top.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
77% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 10,838 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. Only 8% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A six-year graduation rate of 38% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 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. Transfer-out runs to 25% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 7:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,245 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $23,883 annually once grants are applied. The income table below is the number that matters — $20,804 at $0–30k versus $29,180 at $110k+. 93% of students get grant aid averaging $25,322, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Borrowing is widespread: 62% take federal loans.
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 · 576 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 | $20,804 |
| $30–48k | $21,485 |
| $48–75k | $21,524 |
| $75–110k | $25,690 |
| $110k+ | $29,180 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,396 of these 2,245 students, totalling $9,603,400 — an average of $6,879 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Miami-Dade 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)