New York Colleges With Highest Graduation Rate

Columbia University in the City of New York has the highest graduation rate, which is the percentage of graduate candidates who complete their degree or certificate within 150 percent of normal time (for example, within 6 years for 4-years BS degree). Its graduatation rate was 95% last year.

Cornell University with 95% and University of Rochester with 89% of graduation rates followed it in the ranking of New York Colleges with Highest Graduation Rate.

For the ranking, we exclude schools with fewer than 5,000 students.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $54,741 and graduate tuition & fees is $38,637 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 37.32% and the average SAT score is 1,449 at the schools.

Table. New York Colleges With Highest Graduation Rate Comparison
	School Name	Graduation Rate	Undergraduate Tuition & Fees	Yield	Acceptance Rate	SAT Score	Total Population	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NYPrivate, 4-year	95.00% 2.36%	$68,171	63.14%	4.23%	1,540	34,782	6 to 1
1 1	Cornell University Ithaca, NYPrivate, 4-year	95.00% 0.86%	$66,014	66.01%	8.16%	1,520	25,898	9 to 1
3 1	University of Rochester Rochester, NYPrivate, 4-year	89.00% 3.14%	$64,348	19.85%	35.85%	1,480	12,197	9 to 1
4 1	New York University New York, NYPrivate, 4-year	87.00% 0.13%	$60,438	54.41%	9.41%	1,530	59,144	8 to 1
5 6	Yeshiva University New York, NYPrivate, 4-year	84.00% 4.08%	$49,900	59.16%	63.75%	1,410	6,056	7 to 1
6 3	Fashion Institute of Technology New York, NYPublic, 4-year	83.00% 0.89%	$22,572 ($8,050)	53.05%	57.61%	-	8,125	17 to 1
6 1	Fordham University Bronx, NYPrivate, 4-year	83.00% 0.16%	$61,567	9.87%	56.28%	1,400	16,556	14 to 1
6 1	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NYPrivate, 4-year	83.00% 1.19%	$61,884	16.31%	58.45%	1,410	6,968	12 to 1
6 2	Syracuse University Syracuse, NYPrivate, 4-year	83.00% 0.55%	$63,061	20.93%	41.69%	1,340	22,698	15 to 1
10 4	Binghamton University Vestal, NYPublic, 4-year	82.00% 1.82%	$29,453 ($10,363)	16.57%	37.73%	1,410	18,312	19 to 1
	Average	86.40%	$54,741 ($9,207)	37.93%	37.32%	1,449	21,074	12 to 1

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