The return pillar at SUNY at Purchase College is the weakest of the university's four pillars, landing in the 5th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $22,216 less than the model expects for similar students, a result in the 2nd percentile.
The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) subtracts $5,724. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $16,492.
Within the measured factors, the STEM component subtracts $761. Four years after completion, completers earn a median of $45,570, which is below the peer median of $57,301 among comparable institutions (same type and size) by $11,731.
The median sits in the 10th percentile nationally. The university's strongest pillar is mobility, where it reaches the 78th percentile, while the return figures show earnings that trail both the model and the peer median.
Earnings at SUNY at Purchase College sit well below what the model expects for similar students, and the return pillar is the weakest of the four. Four years after completion, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $45,570.
That places the university in the 10th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions, based on an earnings cohort of 1,067 completers. Graduates earn about $22,216 less than the model expects for similar students.
The gap sits at the 2nd percentile. Earnings scenarios, estimated from the program mix, put the typical figure at the same amount, with a downside scenario of $37,694 and an upside scenario of $55,175.
An estimated 27.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.
Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates of SUNY at Purchase College who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $45,570, at the 10th percentile. That figure is $11,731 below the $57,301 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
Graduates earn about $22,216 less than the model expects for similar students, placing that gap at the 2nd percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Azimuth ranks the university #1,397 for return among nonprofit four-year institutions.
Earnings scenarios grounded in the program mix show a downside of $37,694 and an upside of $55,175, framing the range of outcomes tied to field of study. The model attributes $5,724 of the earnings gap to the factors it measures, a share that subtracts from expected earnings.
It attributes $16,492 to a remainder it does not explain, which also subtracts. Within the measured factors, the STEM component subtracts $761.
The program mix is dominated by the arts, with Visual & Performing Arts accounting for 51.2% of degrees awarded. An estimated 27.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, a figure estimated from the program mix.
Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix run from $37,694 on the downside to $55,175 on the upside. The typical earnings scenario lands at $45,570.
The highest-earning programs are small. Economics graduates earn $63,207 four years after completion from 15 degrees awarded a year, and Biology follows at $55,718 from 19 degrees awarded.
The largest program, Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, sits well below those figures: its graduates earn $39,974 four years after completion from 149 degrees awarded a year.
Graduates of SUNY at Purchase College earn about $22,216 less than the model expects for similar students. The median federal student debt for borrowers who complete is $21,067, which is $162 below the $21,229 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).
If repaid over ten years, that debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $239 a month. The published cost of attendance is $29,043.
After grants and scholarships, aid recipients in the lowest income band pay an average of $11,835, while those in the highest band pay $25,428. The spread between the two ends is $13,593, a difference of averages, not what any one family pays.
Parents who borrow through the separate Parent PLUS program hold a median of $30,798. The return pillar sits at the 5th percentile, the weakest of the four for this university.