Siena University
Private College in Loudonville, NY. Six-year graduation rate 75%. Median 10-year earnings $76,079.
Students who entered Siena University reach a median of $76,079 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. 75% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Median debt at graduation is $26,561, 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.35 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
69% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 9,279, typical for a school of this reach. Only 12% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. The score bands below rest on the 10% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 550–680 | 73 (10%) |
| SAT Math | 560–680 | |
| ACT Composite | 27–33 | 16 (2%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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75% of students finish within six years, putting completion well above the national norm. Retention is strong at 83%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. 19% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. 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 3,447 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $32,955 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $26,417 at the $0–30k band to $37,704 at $110k+. 94% of students get grant aid averaging $29,135, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 67% 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 · 809 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 | $26,417 |
| $30–48k | $28,044 |
| $48–75k | $29,118 |
| $75–110k | $34,818 |
| $110k+ | $37,704 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,307 of these 3,447 students, totalling $15,099,513 — an average of $6,545 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)