CUNY Medgar
Evers College
Public College in Brooklyn, NY. Six-year graduation rate 25%. Median 10-year earnings $46,498.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $46,498 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 25% — low enough that finishing cannot be treated as the default outcome. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $10,988. On economic mobility, 5.0% 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 0.24 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 25% — below national average
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 86%, CUNY Medgar Evers College takes nearly everyone who applies. 12,015 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 6% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 3% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score. The bands below describe the middle half of that group, not of the class.
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 | 440–520 | 20 (3%) |
| SAT Math | 410–500 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is the problem here: 25% graduate within six years. Retention is weak: only 50% of full-time first-years return, so roughly one in two leave after one year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. With 31% transferring out, this functions substantially as a stepping stone. At 13:1, 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 3,404 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $6,273 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $4,368 while those at $110k+ pay $14,006. Grant aid reaches 76% of students at an average of $7,836. Only 12% 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 · 726 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 | $4,368 |
| $30–48k | $5,547 |
| $48–75k | $8,661 |
| $75–110k | $10,131 |
| $110k+ | $14,006 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 402 of these 3,404 students, totalling $2,239,110 — an average of $5,570 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)