CUNY John
Jay College of Criminal Justice
Public College in New York, NY. Six-year graduation rate 56%. Median 10-year earnings $56,195.
Students who entered CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice land at a median of $56,195 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 56%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Median debt at graduation is $11,000, a light load against those earnings. On economic mobility, 9.7% of students travel 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 0.20 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Mobility score 9.7 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
Selectivity is real here: only 57% of applicants are offered a place. With 19,238 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. Only 19% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 8% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 480–620 | 172 (8%) |
| SAT Math | 450–600 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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56% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 82% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. 20% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 16:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 11,340 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $4,082 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The income table below is the number that matters — $1,073 at $0–30k versus $13,292 at $110k+. 75% of students receive grant aid, averaging $9,082 — common but not automatic. Only 8% 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 · 2,027 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 | $1,073 |
| $30–48k | $2,506 |
| $48–75k | $6,760 |
| $75–110k | $8,427 |
| $110k+ | $13,292 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 950 of these 11,340 students, totalling $6,015,059 — an average of $6,332 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (New York 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)