How this school serves students from different economic backgrounds, including Pell students, first-generation pathways, and long-term mobility outcomes.
Felician University serves a student body defined by financial need and first-generation backgrounds. Among enrolled undergraduates, 52.5% receive Pell Grants and 49.5% are first-generation college students — figures that reflect the university's deep roots in serving working-class and immigrant communities in northern New Jersey. Transfer students make up 46.6% of enrollment, signaling that Felician functions as a meaningful pathway for students who begin elsewhere and seek a more supportive environment to complete their degrees. Azimuth ranks Felician University #81 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The graduation rate tells a more complex story. The six-year completion rate is 47.2%, with 57.1% of Pell-eligible students completing within that window — a figure that reflects both the challenges and the commitments of the population Felician serves. Freshman retention stands at 75.7%. For students who do complete, median earnings for low-income graduates reach $44,600 on a historical ten-year Scorecard measure, placing this cohort in the 52.7 percentile for low-income graduate median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. Given that nearly half of Felician's undergraduates come from Pell-eligible backgrounds, that earnings figure represents outcomes for a broad and representative share of the student body, not a narrow subset. Azimuth ranks Felician University #635 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. The university's health-dominant program mix, anchored in nursing and allied health fields, channels many graduates into stable, locally rooted careers — a pattern consistent with the access-versus-mobility dynamic seen at institutions that prioritize broad enrollment over selective filtering.
Felician University serves a student body defined by financial need and first-generation backgrounds. Among enrolled undergraduates, 52.5% receive Pell Grants and 49.5% are first-generation college students — figures that reflect the university's deep roots in serving working-class and immigrant communities in northern New Jersey. Transfer students make up 46.6% of enrollment, signaling that Felician functions as a meaningful pathway for students who begin elsewhere and seek a more supportive environment to complete their degrees. Azimuth ranks Felician University #81 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The graduation rate tells a more complex story. The six-year completion rate is 47.2%, with 57.1% of Pell-eligible students completing within that window — a figure that reflects both the challenges and the commitments of the population Felician serves. Freshman retention stands at 75.7%. For students who do complete, median earnings for low-income graduates reach $44,600 on a historical ten-year Scorecard measure, placing this cohort in the 52.7 percentile for low-income graduate median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. Given that nearly half of Felician's undergraduates come from Pell-eligible backgrounds, that earnings figure represents outcomes for a broad and representative share of the student body, not a narrow subset. Azimuth ranks Felician University #635 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. The university's health-dominant program mix, anchored in nursing and allied health fields, channels many graduates into stable, locally rooted careers — a pattern consistent with the access-versus-mobility dynamic seen at institutions that prioritize broad enrollment over selective filtering.
Felician University serves a student body defined by financial need and first-generation backgrounds. Among enrolled undergraduates, 52.5% receive Pell Grants and 49.5% are first-generation college students — figures that reflect the university's deep roots in serving working-class and immigrant communities in northern New Jersey. Transfer students make up 46.6% of enrollment, signaling that Felician functions as a meaningful pathway for students who begin elsewhere and seek a more supportive environment to complete their degrees. Azimuth ranks Felician University #81 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The graduation rate tells a more complex story. The six-year completion rate is 47.2%, with 57.1% of Pell-eligible students completing within that window — a figure that reflects both the challenges and the commitments of the population Felician serves. Freshman retention stands at 75.7%. For students who do complete, median earnings for low-income graduates reach $44,600 on a historical ten-year Scorecard measure, placing this cohort in the 52.7 percentile for low-income graduate median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. Given that nearly half of Felician's undergraduates come from Pell-eligible backgrounds, that earnings figure represents outcomes for a broad and representative share of the student body, not a narrow subset. Azimuth ranks Felician University #635 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. The university's health-dominant program mix, anchored in nursing and allied health fields, channels many graduates into stable, locally rooted careers — a pattern consistent with the access-versus-mobility dynamic seen at institutions that prioritize broad enrollment over selective filtering.
