St. Thomas
Aquinas College
Private College in Sparkill, NY. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $62,909.
A decade after enrolling, the median St. Thomas Aquinas College student earns $62,909 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. 54% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. Median debt at graduation is $23,198, 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.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 93%, St. Thomas Aquinas College takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool runs to 2,200, typical for a school of this reach. Only 12% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 2% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
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 | 410–520 | 5 (2%) |
| SAT Math | 470–565 | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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54% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. First-year retention is 73% — the single largest point of attrition on this campus. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 28% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. A 16:1 ratio is unremarkable; expect a mix of lecture halls and seminars.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,009 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,187 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. The income table below is the number that matters — $11,746 at $0–30k versus $27,333 at $110k+. 98% of students get grant aid averaging $28,374, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 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 · 244 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 | $11,746 |
| $30–48k | $13,700 |
| $48–75k | $24,110 |
| $75–110k | $23,907 |
| $110k+ | $27,333 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 509 of these 1,009 students, totalling $3,164,015 — an average of $6,216 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Rockland 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)