Monroe University
For-profit College in Bronx, NY. Six-year graduation rate 79%. Median 10-year earnings $41,236.
Ten-year median earnings of $41,236 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Completion is a strength: 79% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $18,818, neither a bargain nor a burden. It also moves people — 3.8% 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.
- ✓ Graduation rate 79% — well above the national average
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
68% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 4,060, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is high — 43% of admitted students go on to enroll, well above the typical rate.
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 | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 79% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 67% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention drops to 51% for part-time students, a gap worth weighing if full-time study is not realistic. At 17:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. As a for-profit four-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 5,670 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $13,291 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($14,058 versus $18,837), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid reaches 83% of students at an average of $11,836. Federal borrowing reaches 50% 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 · 1,130 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 | $14,058 |
| $30–48k | $13,671 |
| $48–75k | $14,847 |
| $75–110k | $18,981 |
| $110k+ | $18,837 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,836 of these 5,670 students, totalling $19,579,145 — an average of $6,904 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Bronx 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)