New York has 137 colleges with published admissions data — 36 public and 101 private. Acceptance rates range from 4% to 100%, with Columbia University in the City of New York admitting the smallest share of applicants. The median net price — what students actually pay after grants — is $21,514 a year. Median earnings ten years after enrolling are $61,139.
Average annual net price after grants.
Graduate earnings relative to one year's net price.
Median earnings 10 years after entering.
Share finishing within six years.
| College | Acceptance | SAT range | In-state tuition | Net price | Earnings | Grad rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University in the City of New York | 4% | 1510–1580 | $71,845 | $21,590 | $102,491 | 96% |
| Cornell University | 9% | 1500–1570 | $69,314 | $28,690 | $104,043 | 95% |
| Barnard College | 9% | 1470–1560 | $69,888 | $28,800 | $80,516 | 93% |
| New York University | 9% | 1480–1560 | $62,796 | $37,050 | $82,509 | 88% |
| The Juilliard School | 9% | — | $57,950 | $43,571 | $37,827 | 93% |
| United States Military Academy | 12% | 1200–1430 | — | — | — | 87% |
| Hamilton College | 14% | 1450–1550 | $68,960 | $28,985 | $78,411 | 91% |
| Colgate University | 14% | 1430–1540 | $70,306 | $28,786 | $85,139 | 91% |
| Webb Institute | 14% | 1430–1530 | $63,214 | $73,043 | — | 88% |
| Vassar College | 19% | 1450–1550 | $71,030 | $39,343 | $71,366 | 91% |
| The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 21% | 1295–1501 | $46,820 | $13,269 | $83,847 | 81% |
| Skidmore College | 21% | 1340–1480 | $67,290 | $32,297 | $69,363 | 83% |
| Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh | 25% | — | $9,650 | — | — | 50% |
| United States Merchant Marine Academy | 34% | 1110–1300 | $895 | $6,174 | $90,610 | 82% |
| Yeshiva of Ocean | 36% | — | $9,000 | $9,083 | — | 62% |
| Yeshiva D'monsey Rabbinical College | 37% | — | $9,200 | $8,289 | — | 6% |
| Bais Medrash Elyon | 38% | — | $8,600 | $8,447 | — | — |
| Binghamton University | 39% | 1340–1500 | $10,567 | $21,620 | $80,596 | 82% |
| University of Rochester | 40% | 1410–1540 | $67,080 | $29,278 | $79,042 | 85% |
| Manhattan School of Music | 41% | — | $57,050 | $51,754 | $26,878 | 78% |
| Union College | 44% | 1310–1480 | $69,039 | $34,561 | $88,604 | 80% |
| Syracuse University | 46% | 1270–1440 | $65,528 | $38,793 | $79,164 | 84% |
| CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | 48% | 1100–1400 | $7,464 | $3,033 | $75,971 | 72% |
| Jewish Theological Seminary of America | 49% | 1440–1580 | $67,357 | $43,195 | $92,751 | 90% |
| Stony Brook University | 49% | 1330–1500 | $10,931 | $18,784 | $74,502 | 76% |
| Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael | 50% | — | $9,800 | — | — | 57% |
| Bard College | 52% | 1270–1450 | $66,436 | $34,649 | $46,543 | 68% |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Kesser Torah | 52% | — | $9,600 | $10,157 | — | 35% |
| Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences | 53% | 1110–1380 | $41,475 | $29,882 | $131,426 | 68% |
| Russell Sage College | 53% | — | $38,164 | $22,917 | $58,316 | 56% |
| CUNY Hunter College | 54% | 1100–1420 | $7,382 | $2,984 | $63,163 | 57% |
| Five Towns College | 54% | — | $30,250 | $22,992 | $35,887 | 55% |
| St Lawrence University | 54% | 1255–1420 | $65,900 | $28,651 | $67,258 | 79% |
| Yeshiva University | 56% | 1340–1510 | $51,800 | $49,965 | $71,353 | 83% |
| Davis College | 56% | — | $18,000 | $12,875 | $38,450 | 27% |
| Marist University | 57% | 1190–1340 | $47,750 | $41,544 | $77,819 | 80% |
| CUNY Lehman College | 57% | 850–1150 | $7,410 | $3,148 | $58,013 | 51% |
| CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice | 57% | 930–1220 | $7,470 | $3,203 | $56,195 | 56% |
| CUNY Brooklyn College | 58% | 950–1340 | $7,452 | $3,103 | $60,752 | 54% |
| Fordham University | 59% | 1320–1480 | $64,915 | $44,338 | $85,569 | 82% |
| State University of New York at Cortland | 60% | — | $8,874 | $22,345 | $60,236 | 68% |
| CUNY City College | 60% | 1070–1430 | $7,340 | $3,776 | $66,039 | 57% |
| Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America | 60% | — | $13,250 | $8,290 | — | 7% |
| Touro University | 61% | 1218–1453 | $22,450 | $29,627 | $53,419 | 72% |
| State University of New York at New Paltz | 62% | 1170–1340 | $8,572 | $18,809 | $58,073 | 72% |
| Sarah Lawrence College | 62% | 1240–1430 | $66,862 | $41,437 | $53,603 | 71% |
| Farmingdale State College | 63% | 1040–1240 | $8,626 | $10,867 | $69,781 | 53% |
| SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 63% | — | $9,303 | $18,952 | $55,763 | 66% |
| Dominican University New York | 63% | — | $34,220 | $41,832 | $61,171 | 53% |
| The New School | 64% | — | $58,694 | $58,741 | $52,901 | 69% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 64% | 1375–1510 | $64,081 | $36,228 | $102,051 | 84% |
| Hobart William Smith Colleges | 64% | 1190–1385 | $65,117 | $31,563 | $68,831 | 77% |
| CUNY York College | 64% | 790–960 | $7,358 | $4,456 | $56,945 | 32% |
| CUNY Queens College | 64% | 1010–1290 | $7,538 | $4,195 | $62,763 | 53% |
| Adelphi University | 66% | 1120–1340 | $49,110 | $30,783 | $75,482 | 67% |
| St. John Fisher University | 66% | 1120–1300 | $41,190 | $28,945 | $66,944 | 74% |
| SUNY College at Geneseo | 67% | 1190–1340 | $8,999 | $18,211 | $67,316 | 72% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | 67% | 1300–1460 | $59,274 | $34,906 | $76,571 | 70% |
| Hofstra University | 68% | 1230–1400 | $57,660 | $34,176 | $69,039 | 69% |
| Keuka College | 68% | — | $39,332 | $24,338 | $58,289 | 58% |
| Daemen University | 68% | — | $35,218 | $18,693 | $61,808 | 59% |
| CUNY Graduate School and University Center | 69% | — | $7,235 | — | $65,991 | — |
| Ithaca College | 69% | 1230–1390 | $53,540 | $33,926 | $63,548 | 76% |
| Siena University | 69% | 1110–1360 | $46,580 | $33,733 | $76,079 | 75% |
| University at Albany | 69% | — | $10,866 | $17,167 | $67,979 | 62% |
| Bais Medrash of Dexter Park | 69% | — | $11,500 | $27,689 | — | 71% |
| SUNY Oneonta | 70% | 1120–1310 | $8,831 | $19,158 | $60,386 | 69% |
| Hartwick College | 70% | 1070–1290 | $54,962 | $31,320 | $61,107 | 53% |
| Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas | 70% | — | $10,800 | $22,870 | — | 74% |
| Roberts Wesleyan University | 71% | 990–1305 | $38,826 | $23,130 | $55,031 | 67% |
| SUNY Brockport | 71% | 1100–1280 | $8,752 | $16,353 | $54,496 | 55% |
| St. Joseph's University-New York | 72% | 1110–1270 | $36,550 | $19,035 | $63,905 | 69% |
| Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah | 72% | — | $19,550 | $8,850 | — | 53% |
| Canisius University | 72% | — | $34,500 | $17,940 | $60,681 | 66% |
| SUNY Maritime College | 72% | 1123–1288 | $8,589 | $22,367 | $95,951 | 64% |
| SUNY Buffalo State University | 73% | 980–1240 | $8,533 | $11,346 | $52,334 | 33% |
| Pratt Institute-Main | 73% | 1150–1390 | $61,845 | $52,659 | $54,295 | 74% |
| Yeshiva Kollel Tifereth Elizer | 74% | — | $12,300 | — | — | 80% |
| Alfred University | 74% | 1095–1310 | $41,500 | $25,620 | $54,897 | 57% |
| SUNY at Purchase College | 74% | 1185–1380 | $8,953 | $18,913 | $45,092 | 63% |
| University at Buffalo | 74% | 1210–1380 | $10,936 | $20,995 | $70,814 | 75% |
| Nazareth University | 75% | 1070–1320 | $42,450 | $29,357 | $56,458 | 73% |
| Pace University | 76% | 1180–1340 | $53,290 | $30,892 | $70,378 | 60% |
| Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science | 77% | — | $33,009 | $26,683 | $46,145 | 51% |
| Elmira College | 77% | 1090–1385 | $38,976 | $22,386 | $57,550 | 65% |
| Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah | 77% | — | $8,750 | $10,755 | $39,230 | 22% |
| Clarkson University | 77% | 1200–1390 | $59,398 | $30,305 | $89,696 | 75% |
| SUNY at Fredonia | 78% | 1160–1370 | $8,831 | $15,897 | $54,247 | 50% |
| SUNY College at Potsdam | 78% | — | $8,768 | $13,624 | $47,866 | 45% |
| State University of New York at Plattsburgh | 78% | 1080–1250 | $9,035 | $17,156 | $56,403 | 59% |
| Manhattan University | 79% | 1180–1358 | $53,400 | $27,256 | $86,316 | 64% |
| Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid | 79% | — | $10,480 | $10,909 | — | 53% |
| Mesivta Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary | 80% | — | $15,200 | $4,876 | — | 50% |
| CUNY New York City College of Technology | 80% | 900–1140 | $7,332 | $5,127 | $49,365 | 22% |
| State University of New York at Oswego | 81% | 1070–1270 | $8,825 | $16,236 | $57,566 | 60% |
| New York Institute of Technology | 81% | 1190–1420 | $46,560 | $22,443 | $70,080 | 59% |
| SUNY Polytechnic Institute | 81% | 1025–1370 | $8,625 | $14,164 | $64,355 | 55% |
| D'Youville University | 81% | 995–1220 | $34,940 | $20,433 | $66,942 | 68% |
| Molloy University | 82% | 1088–1290 | $39,790 | $24,347 | $77,789 | 70% |
| St Bonaventure University | 82% | 1065–1290 | $41,735 | $27,074 | $57,214 | 67% |
| Marymount Manhattan College | 83% | 1105–1323 | $41,870 | $36,861 | $49,131 | 49% |
| Le Moyne College | 83% | 1160–1330 | $40,330 | $22,277 | $62,731 | 73% |
| St. John's University-New York | 83% | 1150–1340 | $53,020 | $29,999 | $69,571 | 66% |
| SUNY Old Westbury | 84% | — | $8,422 | $11,282 | $58,526 | 45% |
| SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill | 84% | — | $8,768 | $18,701 | $45,030 | 42% |
| University of Mount Saint Vincent | 85% | 1011–1178 | $44,540 | $21,696 | $65,756 | 57% |
| Mercy University | 86% | — | $22,880 | $14,072 | $52,055 | 46% |
| CUNY Medgar Evers College | 86% | 850–1020 | $7,352 | $5,718 | $46,498 | 20% |
| Long Island University | 86% | 1110–1350 | $42,432 | $33,062 | $59,950 | 57% |
| Villa Maria College | 87% | — | $28,670 | $13,494 | $38,857 | 31% |
| Iona University | 87% | 1110–1300 | $47,260 | $29,188 | $73,595 | 56% |
| Manhattanville University | 87% | — | $44,604 | $20,991 | $58,832 | 58% |
| Niagara University | 87% | 1060–1235 | $39,345 | $17,248 | $56,196 | 75% |
| Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz | 87% | — | $8,400 | $21,437 | $35,023 | 5% |
| Wagner College | 88% | 1190–1290 | $53,200 | $28,241 | $74,360 | 65% |
| Houghton University | 89% | 1170–1375 | $18,430 | $20,519 | $46,721 | 65% |
| Mount Saint Mary College | 89% | — | $43,450 | $25,522 | $67,705 | 66% |
| Bet Medrash Gadol Ateret Torah | 89% | — | $10,700 | $10,273 | — | 58% |
| Metropolitan College of New York | 90% | — | $20,188 | $28,882 | $46,236 | 40% |
| Utica University | 92% | 990–1250 | $26,930 | $19,108 | $63,277 | 56% |
| Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary | 92% | — | $10,800 | $7,269 | — | 20% |
| SUNY College of Technology at Canton | 92% | — | $8,742 | $15,268 | $47,860 | 39% |
| College of Staten Island CUNY | 92% | 890–1250 | $7,490 | $5,579 | $53,501 | 34% |
| School of Visual Arts | 93% | 1188–1490 | $51,400 | $57,914 | $46,459 | 76% |
| St. Thomas Aquinas College | 93% | 880–1085 | $39,450 | $19,994 | $62,909 | 54% |
| Rabbinical Academy Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin | 94% | — | $10,800 | $6,415 | — | 46% |
| The College of Westchester | 94% | — | $25,191 | $16,296 | $42,215 | 38% |
| LIM College | 96% | 960–1138 | $33,504 | $38,667 | $58,956 | 51% |
| Hilbert College | 97% | — | $33,740 | $22,723 | $48,309 | 56% |
| Talmudical Seminary of Bobov | 98% | — | $13,200 | $2,840 | $22,432 | 39% |
| Rabbinical Seminary of America | 99% | — | $10,000 | $4,844 | — | 30% |
| Machzikei Hadath Rabbinical College | 100% | — | $13,500 | $16,515 | $41,527 | 33% |
| Yeshiva Sholom Shachna | 100% | — | $10,750 | $12,217 | — | 30% |
| DeVry College of New York | 100% | — | $17,408 | $12,855 | $45,987 | 31% |
| Yeshivat Hechal Shemuel | 100% | — | $12,380 | $13,174 | — | 50% |
| Yeshiva Ohr Naftoli | 100% | — | $10,870 | $13,021 | — | 63% |
| Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York | 100% | — | $6,150 | $7,299 | — | — |
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. Net price is the average annual cost after grants for students receiving federal aid. Earnings are median earnings 10 years after entering. A dash means the figure isn’t published for that school.
Talmudical Seminary of Bobov has the lowest average net price in New York at $2,840 a year after grants and scholarships. CUNY Hunter College ($2,984) is next.
Students who enrolled at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences report median earnings of $131,426 ten years after entering.
New York has 137 colleges with published admissions data — 36 public and 101 private. Acceptance rates range from 4% to 100%.
The median in-state tuition at public colleges in New York is $8,625 a year, before room, board and other costs.
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