Guide
Which campuses count as CUNY
This page lists City University of New York campuses in the College Scorecard. The roster keeps records whose names identify them as CUNY, including the senior colleges, the community colleges, the Graduate Center, the law school, and the College of Staten Island. The table is alphabetical.
SUNY is the state system. CUNY is the city system. They share a state and not a roster. A blank undergraduate enrollment, which can happen at a professional campus such as the CUNY School of Law, means the file reported no undergraduate count. It does not drop the campus.
- Schools
- 20
- States
- 1
- New York
- Median admit rate
- 62%
- 12 report a rate
- Median earnings
- $54,848
- 10 years after entry
The city system's Scorecard rows
Baruch, Hunter, City College, Queens, Brooklyn, Lehman, and the other senior colleges are here. So are the community colleges that carry CUNY in the Scorecard name, including Borough of Manhattan, Kingsborough, and LaGuardia. Guttman and the School of Professional Studies are here too.
The Graduate Center reports an undergraduate figure in this file and stays on the list as a CUNY campus. The law school is on the list as a CUNY campus even when undergraduate enrollment is blank. The roster is the system, not an undergraduate-only cut.
SUNY and private colleges in the city
A SUNY campus in the city, including Fashion Institute of Technology, stays on the SUNY page and off this one. Private universities in New York City, including Columbia and NYU, are not CUNY. A city address is not a system membership.
A college that partners with CUNY, or that sits near a CUNY campus, stays off. The name in the Scorecard has to be a CUNY record in the roster.
Senior colleges and community colleges
The degree mix is the first thing to read. Some rows are bachelor's campuses. Some are associate campuses. Some are graduate or professional. Alphabetical order interleaves them. The predominant-degree line below separates the counts.
These are public campuses. In-state sticker price is the tuition figure in the price section. Living in the city and qualifying for the in-city or in-state rate is a detail the sticker column does not fully explain. Open the campus for the price breakdown.
Two public systems in one state
New York is confusing on purpose if you only have the word public. SUNY and CUNY are both public, both in the state, and different institutions. The flagship page picks Buffalo and ignores the rest. These two pages are where the rest is visible.
Use a borough only as a reading aid. The table's city column shows Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island. The membership rule is the system, so a campus is not dropped for being outside one borough.
Where the schools are
Every school on this list is in New York. A campus in another state stays off, even when the system or the brand reaches further.
Who runs them
Every school with a reported control is public. Control is the Scorecard field. It is not a judgment about quality.
Predominant degree is the credential the campus awards most often. On this list it is a bachelor's degree at 12 schools, an associate degree at 7 schools, and a graduate degree at 1 school. A campus can still award other credentials.
How large they are
The largest undergraduate enrollments on this list are CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, New York, with 18,623 undergraduates, CUNY Hunter College in New York, New York, with 16,289 undergraduates, and CUNY Bernard M Baruch College in New York, New York, with 16,154 undergraduates. Enrollment is the undergraduate figure. It is not a ranking, and it leaves out graduate students.
1 school does not report an undergraduate enrollment. That campus stays off the size order. A blank is not zero.
Admission
12 of 20 schools report an admission rate. The median of those rates is 62%. Schools with no reported rate stay out of the median. A missing rate is not an open door, and it is not a closed one.
The lowest reported admission rates on this list are CUNY Bernard M Baruch College in New York, New York, at 48%, CUNY Hunter College in New York, New York, at 54%, and CUNY Lehman College in Bronx, New York, at 57%. A lower rate is harder entry. It is not a score for the school.
The highest reported admission rates on this list are College of Staten Island CUNY in Staten Island, New York, at 92%, CUNY Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York, at 86%, and CUNY New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, New York, at 80%.
What they charge
Among 19 public colleges that report an in-state sticker price, the median is $7,340. 1 other public colleges on the list do not report one.
Sticker price is not net price. Grants, waivers, and a service commitment can move the bill by a wide margin. Open a school for the net-price figures.
Earnings and graduation
Among 18 schools that report earnings, the median of those school-level medians is $54,848. The clock starts at entry, not at graduation. The highest reported medians on this list are CUNY Bernard M Baruch College in New York, New York, at $75,971, CUNY City College in New York, New York, at $66,039, and CUNY Graduate School and University Center in New York, New York, at $65,991.
Among 18 schools that report a graduation rate, the median rate is 30%. A blank rate is left out. It is not treated as zero.
Also on other lists
Some of these schools also meet the rule for another list on this site. The overlap is a second flag or a second classification. It is not a second ranking.
1 is also on R1 research universities. 1 is also on R2 research universities. 1 is also on liberal arts colleges. 15 are also on Hispanic-serving institutions.
How these figures work
Admission rate, enrollment, sticker price, earnings, and graduation rate all come from the College Scorecard. Earnings are the median 10 years after a student entered the school. Tuition for a public college is the in-state sticker price. Tuition for a private college is the published sticker price. None of these is net price after aid.
A blank field stays blank. This page does not turn a blank admission rate into an open door, a blank fee into a free application, or a blank earnings figure into zero. The table above is membership under the rule in this guide. Sort order is not a quality ranking.