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Yeshiva University

Private College in New York, NY. Six-year graduation rate 85%. Median 10-year earnings $71,353.

Verdict High-return
Yeshiva University · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$71,353
Median debt at grad
$18,250
Mobility score
1.5
% bottom→top quintile
Graduation rate
85.1%
Federal loan default
0%

Ten-year median earnings of $71,353 are the headline number here, and they are strong ones. 85% graduate within six years, so most students who start here finish here. Graduates carry a median of $18,250 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.

Green Flags
  • Debt-to-income ratio 0.26 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
  • Graduation rate 85% — well above the national average
  • 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
56%
Applicants
1,665
Yield rate
61.1%

Selectivity is real here: only 56% of applicants are offered a place. The applicant pool runs to 1,665, typical for a school of this reach. 61% of admitted students actually enroll, which is a high yield by national standards. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 19% 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 670–740 107 (19%)
SAT Math 670–770
ACT Composite 29–33 89 (16%)

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

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Academics

Full-time retention
92%
Transfer-out rate
9%
Student:faculty
7:1

A 85% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. 92% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. A 7:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate population is 3,111 — big enough for a real range of programs, small enough to navigate.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$39,681
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
92%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
17%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,960 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price — what students actually pay after grant aid — is $39,681 a year, at the high end of undergraduate cost. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $24,103 at the $0–30k band to $69,618 at $110k+. 92% of students get grant aid averaging $30,264, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 17% borrow federally — a low rate, though it covers federal loans only.

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.

% receiving grants
94%
Average grant
$31,510

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 618 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 $24,103
$30–48k $25,462
$48–75k $28,207
$75–110k $41,944
$110k+ $69,618

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Federal student loans went to 500 of these 2,960 students, totalling $3,089,481 — an average of $6,179 each.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (New York County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$2,529/mo
1 bedroom
$2,655/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$2,910/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

GI Bill students
26
Yellow Ribbon
Yes
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Yeshiva University

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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