SUNY College
at Geneseo
Public College in Geneseo, NY. Six-year graduation rate 71%. Median 10-year earnings $67,316.
A decade after enrolling, the median SUNY College at Geneseo student earns $67,316 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Completion is a strength: 72% of students finish within six years. Graduates carry a median of $19,500 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 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 66% puts SUNY College at Geneseo on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. The applicant pool is large — 15,293 in the most recent cycle — so the published rate reflects genuine competition rather than a small-sample quirk. Only 10% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere. 4% 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 | 600–670 | 42 (4%) |
| SAT Math | 590–670 | |
| ACT Composite | 26–31 | 7 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
Apply at SUNY College at Geneseo →Academics
A 72% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. First-year retention of 87% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. A 21% 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. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,855 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $19,115 annually once grants are applied. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $10,018 at the $0–30k band to $23,043 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 81% of students at an average of $7,878. About 51% 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 · 977 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 | $10,018 |
| $30–48k | $12,254 |
| $48–75k | $16,142 |
| $75–110k | $17,549 |
| $110k+ | $23,043 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,962 of these 3,855 students, totalling $12,022,970 — an average of $6,128 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Livingston 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)