CUNY City College — All Rankings Are Wrong

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Basic Information

Type Public

Geographical Reach Regional

Location New York, NY

Population 14,000,000

Website https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/

Weather

Comfortable Days 105 (50%)

Sunshine Hours 2,535 (41%)

Days Without Precipitation 243 (42%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 10,905

Men / Women 48% / 52%

From State 84%

From Region 0%

Athletes 1.9%

Racial/Ethnic

Hispanic 41%

Asian 24%

Black 16%

White 12%

International 4%

Mixed 3%

Native American 0%

Men in the Entering Class

Men

Entering Class by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of the full-time first-time degree-seeking cohort. Groups IPEDS reports separately — two or more races, and race unknown — are left out, so the lines don't sum to 100%.

Enrolled Undergraduates by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates, not just the entering class. Same excluded groups as above.

IPEDS Admissions (2011–2024), Graduation Rates (2011–2024) and 12-month Enrollment (2020–2025) surveys. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Schools & Majors

⇅	Trends	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture		63	46% / 54%	3%	$59,763	75
Architecture		63 —	46% / 54%	3%	$59,763	75	—

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership	814	38% / 62%	5%	$55,275	67	88%
Business	92 +1	62% / 38%	4%	$60,304	76	92%
Economics	122 +5	70% / 30%	7%	$59,674	75	88%
Anthropology	14 +10	36% / 64%	0%	$49,577	55	—
International Studies	34 +8	21% / 79%	12%	$55,081	67	91%
Political Science	72 +3	42% / 58%	11%	$59,032	74	82%
Psychology	427 +17	25% / 75%	3%	$52,859	62	87%
Sociology	53 +8	32% / 68%	4%	$52,416	61	92%

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Division of Humanities and the Arts	466	32% / 68%	4%	$45,890	45	89%
Black Studies	13 +8	15% / 85%	0%	$41,863	32	87%
Classical Languages	2 —	50% / 50%	0%	$56,372	69	—
Digital Humanities	3 —	67% / 33%	33%	$51,986	61	—
English	66 +2	29% / 71%	2%	$51,812	60	87%
History	40 +2	48% / 52%	0%	$50,691	58	85%
Philosophy	9 +2	67% / 33%	22%	$45,632	44	84%
Romance Languages	6 —	0% / 100%	0%	$56,746	70	82%
Communication and Media Arts	73 +7	23% / 77%	3%	$54,506	66	96%
Film and Video	14 —	79% / 21%	14%	$43,792	38	91%
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences	76 —	14% / 86%	3%	$48,218	51	91%
Jazz Studies	4 —	50% / 50%	75%	$37,386	20	81%
Media Communication Arts	7 —	57% / 43%	14%	$55,967	69	97%
Music	7 —	57% / 43%	14%	$37,386	20	81%
Sonic Arts	12 —	58% / 42%	17%	$37,386	20	81%
Studio Art	111 +3	29% / 71%	2%	$39,071	24	87%
Theatre	23 +1	48% / 52%	0%	$22,972	3	86%

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Division of Science	229	39% / 61%	8%	$69,464	85	91%
Earth System Science and Environmental Engineering	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$72,764	88	—
Applied Mathematics	11 +1	45% / 55%	0%	$71,673	87	90%
Chemistry	3 —	67% / 33%	0%	$62,593	79	—
Earth System Science	6 —	17% / 83%	17%	$59,639	75	—
Mathematics	11 +1	73% / 27%	0%	$67,624	84	90%
Physics	7 —	57% / 43%	29%	$65,730	82	86%
Biochemistry	22 —	41% / 59%	9%	$56,526	70	100%
Biology	98 +3	32% / 68%	11%	$72,189	87	91%
Biomedical Sciences	60 —	40% / 60%	0%	$72,189	87	91%
Biotechnology	10 —	40% / 60%	20%	$64,717	81	—

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Grove School of Engineering	302	78% / 22%	9%	$89,059	96	96%
Biomedical Engineering	12 —	50% / 50%	8%	$74,003	89	96%
Chemical Engineering	18 —	56% / 44%	17%	$63,792	80	89%
Civil Engineering	29 —	83% / 17%	17%	$83,974	94	98%
Computer Engineering	29 —	76% / 24%	3%	$104,084	99	100%
Electrical Engineering	34 —	79% / 21%	12%	$85,298	95	98%
Environmental Engineering	20 —	65% / 35%	20%	$75,881	90	100%
Mechanical Engineering	62 —	89% / 11%	10%	$86,786	95	96%
Computer Science	98 —	82% / 18%	4%	$98,035	98	94%

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
School of Education	98	6% / 94%	8%	$61,802	78	92%
Bilingual Education	25 —	12% / 88%	8%	$70,081	86	90%
Childhood Education	29 —	7% / 93%	10%	$58,968	74	93%
Early Childhood Education	44 —	2% / 98%	7%	$58,968	74	93%

Financial

In-State Tuition & Fees $7,711

Out-of-State Tuition & Fees $16,266

Est. In-State Cost $9,975

Est. Out-of-State Cost $21,042

ROI Percentile 76th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 79%

4-Year Graduation Rate 29%

6-Year Graduation Rate 57%

Transfer-Out Rate 25%

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Graduated

Students finishing within 150% of normal time. Each year labels the cohort that entered six years earlier — 2024 tracks the class that started in 2018.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Gender

Men Women

IPEDS reports the cohort as men and women only.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Race & Ethnicity

Asian Black Hispanic White International

Each group's completers over its own share of the entering cohort. Groups making up less than 2% of everyone this college graduated over the period are left off — their rates swing on a handful of students and read as noise.

IPEDS Graduation Rates survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

⇅	%	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Humanities & Social Sciences	37.5%	739	29% / 71%	4%	$53,014	63	87%
Arts	19.8%	390	33% / 67%	4%	$46,509	46	90%
Business & Economics	10.9%	214	66% / 34%	6%	$59,945	75	90%
Engineering	10.4%	205	77% / 23%	12%	$84,689	95	97%
Life & Natural Sciences	9.6%	190	36% / 64%	8%	$69,982	86	92%
Computer Science	5.0%	98	82% / 18%	4%	$98,035	98	94%
Education	5.0%	98	6% / 94%	8%	$61,803	78	92%
Physical Sciences & Math	1.9%	38	53% / 47%	8%	$66,789	83	89%

Research R2

⇅	Research $	Rank	Federal	Industry $	PhDs	Rank	PhD students	Postdocs
Engineering	$25.4M	#142	67%	$0.1M	14	#160	145	20
Physical Sciences & Math	$15.1M	#149	80%	$0.2M	—	—	—	25
Humanities & Social Sciences	$10.7M	#145	13%	$0.0M	17	#193	79	—
Life & Natural Sciences	$6.7M	#187	78%	$0	—	—	—	5
Health Sciences	$1.6M	#212	62%	$0	—	—	—	—
Agriculture & Food Science	$1.5M	#139	70%	$0.2M	—	—	—	—
Education	$1.4M	#206	6%	$0	—	—	—	—
Computer Science	$0.8M	#235	74%	$0.0M	—	—	—	—
Business & Economics	$0.0M	#407	0%	$0	—	—	—	—
Total	$63.4M	#185	61%	$0.5M	31	#323	224	50

Expenditure and funding source: NSF HERD, FY2024. Degrees: IPEDS completions, 2023–24. Students and postdocs: NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates, fall 2024, which covers science, engineering and selected health fields only. An em dash means the source does not report the figure, which is not the same as zero.

Admissions

Uses Common App No

Acceptance Rate 42%

Yield (Unbound) 12%

Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

	In-State	Out-of-State	International
Regular Decision	42%	42%	42%

Acceptance & Yield

Acceptance Yield

Applicants, Admitted & Enrolled

Applicants Admitted Enrolled

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Standardized Tests

Test Policy optional

Submitted Test Scores 11%

SAT Range 1070 – 1430

SAT Math Range 530 – 730

SAT RW Range 540 – 700

SAT Composite

25th 75th

SAT Math

25th 75th

SAT Reading & Writing

25th 75th

Submitting a Test Score

Submitted

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line. Test-score submission adds SAT and ACT submitters, capped at 100% — a student can send both.