CUNY Brooklyn College
Public College in Brooklyn, NY. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $60,752.
Students who entered CUNY Brooklyn College reach a median of $60,752 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. The six-year graduation rate is 54%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $11,000 — modest by four-year standards. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 8.1% 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.18 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Mobility score 8.1 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 58%, the acceptance rate makes CUNY Brooklyn College a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. 30,224 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 10% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 9% 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 | 460–660 | 168 (9%) |
| SAT Math | 490–680 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 54% finish inside six years. Retention is strong at 80%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. 24% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. Part-time students fare worse, returning at 67% — relevant if you plan to work while enrolled.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 10,443 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $4,512 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The income table below is the number that matters — $1,029 at $0–30k versus $12,254 at $110k+. 77% of students receive grant aid, averaging $8,569 — common but not automatic. Only 7% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
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 · 1,504 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 | $1,029 |
| $30–48k | $2,287 |
| $48–75k | $6,193 |
| $75–110k | $8,917 |
| $110k+ | $12,254 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 760 of these 10,443 students, totalling $4,911,869 — an average of $6,463 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kings 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)