CUNY New
York City College of Technology
Public College in Brooklyn, NY. Six-year graduation rate 28%. Median 10-year earnings $49,365.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $49,365 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. Only 28% finish within six years, so roughly three in four students leave without the credential they enrolled for. Median debt at graduation is $10,533, a light load against those earnings. It also moves people — 8.3% of students climb from the bottom fifth of the income distribution 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 0.21 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ Mobility score 8.3 — top quartile among US colleges
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 28% — below national average
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 80% puts CUNY New York City College of Technology on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 24,745 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 18% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 5% 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 | 460–570 | 198 (5%) |
| SAT Math | 440–570 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A six-year graduation rate of 28% means finishing is closer to the exception than the rule. 65% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in three are gone before sophomore year. 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. A 28% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 12,950 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $5,794 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $3,810 while those at $110k+ pay $13,043. About 70% get grants averaging $7,495, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. Only 6% 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 · 3,166 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 | $3,810 |
| $30–48k | $4,606 |
| $48–75k | $7,886 |
| $75–110k | $9,809 |
| $110k+ | $13,043 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 719 of these 12,950 students, totalling $4,056,664 — an average of $5,642 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)