Maria College
of Albany
Private College in Albany, NY. Six-year graduation rate 86%. Median 10-year earnings $55,458.
Ten years after entry, the median Maria College of Albany student earns $55,458 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Completion is a strength: 86% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $20,528, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Graduation rate 86% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
At 44%, the acceptance rate makes Maria College of Albany a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. With 326 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. About 28% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range.
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 | — | 4 (10%) |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 86% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. Just 33% of first-years come back — most of the completion gap opens in year one. Transfer-out runs to 14% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. At 6:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 702 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $16,254 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($10,733 versus $16,138), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 68% of students at an average of $5,798. 85% 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 · 29 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 | $10,733 |
| $30–48k | $12,791 |
| $48–75k | $14,870 |
| $75–110k | $17,423 |
| $110k+ | $16,138 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 594 of these 702 students, totalling $5,104,007 — an average of $8,593 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Albany 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)