SUNY College
of Technology at Alfred
Public Community College in Alfred, NY. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $50,445.
Ten years after entry, the median SUNY College of Technology at Alfred student earns $50,445 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. The six-year graduation rate is 59%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Borrowing stays contained, with median debt at graduation of $13,750. It also moves people — 2.1% 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 0.27 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
76% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 9,242 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 16%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. The score bands below rest on the 9% 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 | 500–600 | 98 (9%) |
| SAT Math | 490–600 | |
| ACT Composite | 20–24 | 13 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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59% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 65% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 24% 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. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,510 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $15,283 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $9,628 while those at $110k+ pay $21,778. About 84% get grants averaging $9,783, so plan on the possibility of paying closer to full price. 61% 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 · 1,242 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 | $9,628 |
| $30–48k | $11,197 |
| $48–75k | $15,721 |
| $75–110k | $16,911 |
| $110k+ | $21,778 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 2,137 of these 3,510 students, totalling $12,756,076 — an average of $5,969 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Allegany 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)