St Paul's
School of Nursing-Staten Island
For-profit College in Staten Island, NY. Six-year graduation rate 46%. Median 10-year earnings $86,693.
Students who entered St Paul's School of Nursing-Staten Island reach a median of $86,693 ten years later, which puts this school in the upper band of undergraduate earnings outcomes. The six-year graduation rate is 46%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Graduates carry a median of $25,729 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 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
Completion is middling: 46% finish inside six years. Retention of 64% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. Retention and graduation track closely, so most of the attrition shows up in the first year rather than after it. The student-faculty ratio is 16:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. This is a for-profit two-year institution. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 668 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $34,808 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The income table below is the number that matters — $34,129 at $0–30k versus $44,677 at $75–110k. About 53% get grants averaging $7,113, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 75% 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 · 25 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 | $34,129 |
| $30–48k | $35,547 |
| $48–75k | $39,562 |
| $75–110k | $44,677 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 504 of these 668 students, totalling $5,395,064 — an average of $10,704 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Richmond County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)