Bryant &
Stratton College-Syracuse North
Private Community College in Liverpool, NY. Six-year graduation rate 31%. Median 10-year earnings $32,568.
Median earnings ten years after entry come to $32,568, below what most undergraduate institutions return — the central fact to weigh against cost here. The six-year graduation rate is 31% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $21,549, neither a bargain nor a burden.
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
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.66 — elevated (above 0.60)
- ! Graduation rate 31% — below national average
Academics
Completion is the problem here: 31% graduate within six years. 33% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. 16% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 491 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $12,725 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($15,369 versus $17,134), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 96% of students receive it, averaging $10,166. 74% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
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 · 52 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 | $15,369 |
| $30–48k | $10,504 |
| $48–75k | $11,610 |
| $75–110k | $17,632 |
| $110k+ | $17,134 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 361 of these 491 students, totalling $2,410,944 — an average of $6,679 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Onondaga 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)