Jewish Theological
Seminary of America
Private College in New York, NY. Six-year graduation rate 90%. Median 10-year earnings $92,751.
Students who entered Jewish Theological Seminary of America reach a median of $92,751 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. Completion is a strength: 90% of students finish within six years.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 90% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 49%, the acceptance rate makes Jewish Theological Seminary of America a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. With 144 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. 59% of admitted students actually enroll, which is a high yield by national standards. 17% 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 | 720–790 | 7 (17%) |
| SAT Math | 720–790 | |
| ACT Composite | — | 2 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 90% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 96% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. The 7:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically. This is a small school — 172 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 172 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $58,152 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The income table below is the number that matters — $18,385 at $0–30k versus $51,570 at $110k+. 63% of students receive grant aid, averaging $28,311 — common but not automatic. Federal borrowing is uncommon here at 12% of students.
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 · 47 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 | $18,385 |
| $30–48k | — |
| $48–75k | $26,934 |
| $75–110k | $26,445 |
| $110k+ | $51,570 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 20 of these 172 students, totalling $115,250 — an average of $5,763 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