Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

St. Joseph's University-New York

Brooklyn, NY · Private nonprofit · Bachelor-granting · 3,144 undergrads · 72% admitted

Do students finish?
69% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$41,897/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$167,588 over four years if you finish on time.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$63,905 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $40,707 median $63,905 75th pct $86,336

78% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Your major matters more than your school

The school-wide figure above blends every major together — but pay varies enormously by program. Pick a degree level (and search your major) to compare like-for-like.

Read these on their own terms. Program pay is measured 1 year after completing the program (early career, graduates only) — not the same as the school-wide number above, which is 10 years after a student first enrolled. Don't compare a program figure to the school figure; use the programs to compare majors to each other.

21 Bachelor's programs · $17,979 to $97,056 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $97,056 $27,000
Health and Medical Administrative Services.Bachelor's $45,308 $24,300
Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $44,240 $22,000
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $43,606 $21,825
Human Services, General.Bachelor's $40,926 $25,000
Mathematics and Statistics, Other.Bachelor's $40,884 $20,462
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities.Bachelor's $39,812 $17,836
Mathematics.Bachelor's $39,588 $19,500
Marketing.Bachelor's $38,787 $18,223
Hospitality Administration/Management.Bachelor's $37,279 $18,834
Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.Bachelor's $36,149 $20,000
Social Sciences, General.Bachelor's $35,729 $21,375
Criminal Justice and Corrections.Bachelor's $35,525 $18,750
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management.Bachelor's $34,829 $21,120
Special Education and Teaching.Bachelor's $34,150 $22,500
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $33,098 $25,000
Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $28,287
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $28,268 $19,750
Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies.Bachelor's $28,201 $21,500
Biology, General.Bachelor's $22,156 $20,677
English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $17,979 $17,125

The Dept. of Education omits programs with too few graduates (to protect privacy), so not every major appears. Pay is a median for federally-aided graduates. Full program detail on the official Scorecard.

Typical federal loan debt
$17,750
28% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major — see the by-major breakdown above (28 programs at this school).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website