Marymount Manhattan College
Private College in New York, NY. Six-year graduation rate 49%. Median 10-year earnings $49,131.
Students who entered Marymount Manhattan College land at a median of $49,131 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 49%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $25,750, neither a bargain nor a burden. Mobility is where this school separates itself: 3.3% of students move 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
Marymount Manhattan College accepts 83% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 7,896 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. A 6% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. 14% 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 | 585–673 | 56 (14%) |
| SAT Math | 520–650 | |
| ACT Composite | 24–27 | 21 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion sits at 49%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 70% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 30% 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 7:1, 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 1,627 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $38,376 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $30,722 while those at $110k+ pay $42,217. Most students get help: 89% receive grants worth $24,165 on average. 72% 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 · 492 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 | $30,722 |
| $30–48k | $30,626 |
| $48–75k | $32,459 |
| $75–110k | $34,872 |
| $110k+ | $42,217 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,172 of these 1,627 students, totalling $7,732,104 — an average of $6,597 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
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)