College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

SUNY College at Geneseo

Geneseo, NY · Public · Bachelor-granting · 3,869 undergrads · 66% admitted

Do students finish?

71% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?

$27,709/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$110,836 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.

$67,316 median, 10 yrs after entry

25th pct $48,703 median $67,316 75th pct $94,584

83% 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.

18 Bachelor's programs · $22,760 to $53,027 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt

Accounting and Related Services.Bachelor's $53,027 $18,187

Economics.Bachelor's $48,924 $19,924

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.Bachelor's $46,912 $21,554

Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $42,823 $19,000

Chemistry.Bachelor's $34,561 —

Communication and Media Studies.Bachelor's $32,563 $19,500

Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $32,308 $22,287

Mathematics.Bachelor's $32,289 $19,500

Political Science and Government.Bachelor's $31,843 $18,500

History.Bachelor's $30,450 $22,375

International Relations and National Security Studies.Bachelor's $30,347 $17,500

Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.Bachelor's $29,741 $19,875

Psychology, General.Bachelor's $28,549 $21,500

Sociology.Bachelor's $27,257 $19,500

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology.Bachelor's $26,731 $20,994

Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics.Bachelor's $24,978 —

English Language and Literature, General.Bachelor's $24,846 $21,500

Biology, General.Bachelor's $22,760 $20,500

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

$14,836

≈ 22% 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.

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 (19 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