St. Joseph's
University-New York
Private College in Brooklyn, NY. Six-year graduation rate 69%. Median 10-year earnings $63,905.
A decade after enrolling, the median St. Joseph's University-New York student earns $63,905 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Completion is a strength: 69% of students finish within six years. Median debt at graduation is $22,000, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree. It also moves people — 2.5% 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.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.34 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
72% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool runs to 5,728, typical for a school of this reach. Yield is low at 13%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 18% 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 | 560–640 | 91 (18%) |
| SAT Math | 550–630 | |
| ACT Composite | 24–29 | 15 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 69% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention is strong at 81%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. Transfer-out runs to 22% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. A 12:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,335 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $19,422 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,876 at $0–30k, $22,947 at $110k+. Most students get help: 90% receive grants worth $18,238 on average. 53% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 | $16,876 |
| $30–48k | $15,633 |
| $48–75k | $16,663 |
| $75–110k | $18,908 |
| $110k+ | $22,947 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,753 of these 3,335 students, totalling $12,418,751 — an average of $7,084 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Kings 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)