Northeastern University Oakland
Private College in Oakland, CA. Median 10-year earnings $92,538.
Ten-year median earnings of $92,538 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. Graduates carry a median of $24,250 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 17% means admission is the exception — plan accordingly. With 18,030 applications received, this is a school operating at national scale. Yield is low at 15%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. 20% 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 | 690–740 | 87 (20%) |
| SAT Math | 730–780 | |
| ACT Composite | 32–33 | 21 (5%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at Northeastern University Oakland →Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. 0% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. At 7:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. This is a small school — 546 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 546 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $27,473 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $8,161 while those at $110k+ pay $38,398. 70% of students receive grant aid, averaging $59,676 — common but not automatic. About 48% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.
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 · 487 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 | $8,161 |
| $30–48k | $10,185 |
| $48–75k | $26,241 |
| $75–110k | $9,898 |
| $110k+ | $38,398 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 262 of these 546 students, totalling $1,100,136 — an average of $4,199 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Alameda County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026