D'Youville University
Private College in Buffalo, NY. Six-year graduation rate 67%. Median 10-year earnings $66,942.
A decade after enrolling, the median D'Youville University student earns $66,942 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. 68% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. On economic mobility, 4.0% 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
81% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 2,786, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 11%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 12% 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 | 510–610 | 28 (12%) |
| SAT Math | 485–610 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at D'Youville University →Academics
A 68% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 73% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. 21% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 14:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,299 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $20,690 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $16,259 while those at $110k+ pay $27,794. Most students get help: 100% receive grants worth $20,443 on average. 65% 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 · 241 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 | $16,259 |
| $30–48k | $15,826 |
| $48–75k | $19,722 |
| $75–110k | $24,476 |
| $110k+ | $27,794 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 847 of these 1,299 students, totalling $9,142,871 — an average of $10,794 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Erie 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)