Guide
How the Patriot League football list is built
This page is the Patriot League football conference in the IPEDS file. Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Colgate, Lafayette, and Lehigh are the kind of roster the string returns. The table is alphabetical. It is not every school that competes with the league in another sport.
Army and Navy have no football conference in this file, so they are not on this page. American University, Boston University, and Loyola Maryland are Division I schools with no football conference here either. A missing football string keeps a school off a football page.
- Schools
- 7
- States
- 4
- Median admit rate
- 26%
- All schools report a rate
- Median earnings
- $91,410
- 10 years after entry
The football string only
The match is Patriot League, the football conference name. It is not a hand list of every campus people call a Patriot League school. If the file has no football conference, this page has no row. That rule is the same one the Big Ten page uses.
Georgetown and Holy Cross are also on the Jesuit page. Fordham is too. Religious affiliation does not create the football membership, and football membership does not create the Jesuit roster. A school can be on both lists for two reasons.
Service academies and non-football members
The United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy are on the service-academies page. Their football conference in this college file is blank. Do not read a blank as FBS, and do not read it as Patriot League. The blank is a blank.
American University, Boston University, and Loyola Maryland stay off because the football field is empty. This page cannot see a basketball schedule or another sport. Use the Division I colleges page for Division I membership without football.
A short FCS roster
The fact strip states the count from the file. Name order keeps the roster easy to scan. A remembered number of members is not newer than the field, and this page does not freeze one in the prose.
These colleges differ in size and admission rate. Georgetown is not a template for the rest. Read each row. Earnings and price below are medians of the schools that report them, not a league award.
FCS, and not the Ivy League
Patriot League football is FCS in this file. Ivy League football is also FCS, and it is a different conference string, stored as Ivy Group. No school needs to be on both conference pages. The FCS page holds both groups.
Army and Navy can be scheduled against this league in the real sport and still stay off this page. A game is not a conference field. The service-academies page is the right list for the academies themselves.
Where the schools are
These schools sit in 4 states. The largest groups are Pennsylvania (3), New York (2), District of Columbia (1), and Massachusetts (1). The rest of the roll is spread across the other states in the table.
Who runs them
Every school with a reported control is a private nonprofit college. 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 7 schools. A campus can still award other credentials.
How large they are
The largest undergraduate enrollments on this list are Fordham University in Bronx, New York, with 10,512 undergraduates, Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, with 7,569 undergraduates, and Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with 5,898 undergraduates. Enrollment is the undergraduate figure. It is not a ranking, and it leaves out graduate students.
Admission
7 of 7 schools report an admission rate. The median of those rates is 26%. 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 Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, at 13%, Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, at 14%, and College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, at 18%. A lower rate is harder entry. It is not a score for the school.
The highest reported admission rates on this list are Fordham University in Bronx, New York, at 59%, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, at 31%, and Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, at 29%.
What they charge
Among 7 private colleges that report a sticker price, the median is $65,398.
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 7 schools that report earnings, the median of those school-level medians is $91,410. The clock starts at entry, not at graduation. The highest reported medians on this list are Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at $105,584, Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia, at $103,494, and Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, at $93,807.
Among 7 schools that report a graduation rate, the median rate is 88%. 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. 2 are also on R2 research universities. 4 are also on liberal arts colleges.
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.