Wagner College
Private College in Staten Island, NY. Six-year graduation rate 65%. Median 10-year earnings $74,360.
A decade after enrolling, the median Wagner College student earns $74,360 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. 65% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $25,000 in debt — in line with the national norm. It also moves people — 2.2% 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
With an acceptance rate of 88%, Wagner College takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool runs to 2,566, typical for a school of this reach. Yield sits at 20% — the remainder of admitted students enroll elsewhere or not at all. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 14% 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 | 600–660 | 63 (14%) |
| SAT Math | 590–630 | |
| ACT Composite | 23–28 | 27 (6%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Six-year completion runs to 65% — students who start here overwhelmingly finish here. 83% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. Retention and completion are close, which places the gap between entering and finishing almost entirely in year one. 27% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 11:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,579 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $28,033 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. The income table below is the number that matters — $20,993 at $0–30k versus $32,604 at $110k+. Most students get help: 99% receive grants worth $34,237 on average. Federal borrowing reaches 54% 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 · 398 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 | $20,993 |
| $30–48k | $21,944 |
| $48–75k | $24,930 |
| $75–110k | $28,217 |
| $110k+ | $32,604 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 849 of these 1,579 students, totalling $5,891,677 — an average of $6,940 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
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)