Suny College At Geneseo

Suny College At Geneseo's program mix is anchored in education, liberal arts, and social sciences — a signature consistent with its identity as a selective public liberal arts college. Psychology, General is the largest program with 167 graduates annually, followed by Business Administration, Biology, General, Communication and Media Studies, and Special Education and Teaching.

The dominant program family is Education, which shapes both the institution's degree output and its labor-market positioning across 25 programs in the Azimuth coverage set. The strongest rankings at Suny College At Geneseo are concentrated in its highest-earning fields.

Azimuth ranks Accounting #101 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, with 48 graduates earning $84,177. Azimuth ranks Business Administration #60 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, with graduates earning $78,286.

Azimuth ranks Biology, General #30 for median earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions, with 117 graduates earning $66,852. These programs represent the clearest direct-to-workforce earnings signal at the institution, combining cohort scale with competitive early salaries relative to peers.

See [how Azimuth evaluates programs](/analysis/college-program-rankings-how-to-actually-evaluate-programs/) for the full methodology. Several of Suny College At Geneseo's most popular programs — including Psychology, General and Business Administration — are grad-school-dependent pathways where four-year earnings undercount the longer-term trajectory of graduates who continue to graduate or professional study.

Fields like Biology, General and Communication and Media Studies are more direct-to-workforce in orientation, with graduates entering stable regional labor markets where the institution's network has meaningful depth. The [supply and demand for college graduates](/analysis/supply-demand-map-college-degrees/) provides context for how Education-oriented institutions align with national labor-market trends across these program families.

SUNY College at Geneseo's published cost of attendance is $27,709. Net price by income band shows how financial aid reshapes that figure: low-income families pay approximately $10,018, middle-income families pay around $16,142, and higher-income families pay approximately $23,043.

Azimuth ranks Suny College At Geneseo #451 for post-graduation affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions. As a public institution, Geneseo's tuition structure and need-based aid reach make it accessible to a broad range of students, with net prices that reflect the institution's public-university pricing model.

Median federal student loan debt at graduation is $19,500, and families using Parent PLUS borrow a median of $22,092; private or institutional loans may add further borrowing that falls outside these federal-only figures — see the [Parent PLUS risk framework](/analysis/ou-what-happens-when-parents-borrow-too/) for how household context shapes PLUS decisions. For a graduate at the institution's median four-year earnings of $63,560, median federal debt of $19,500 projects to a monthly payment of about $220 under standard ten-year repayment.

For personalized projections across earnings scenarios — including Parent PLUS planning — use [Azimuth's Financial GPS tool](/analysis/financial-gps-framework/).

Graduates earn median 4-year earnings of $63,560, placing Suny College At Geneseo in the 63.6 percentile for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $10,905 less than similar students at comparable institutions, placing Suny College At Geneseo in the 18.7 percentile for earnings beyond expectations among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Azimuth ranks Suny College At Geneseo #840 for return on investment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Suny College At Geneseo also sits in the 70.5 percentile for median low-income graduate earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions — a historical 10-year Scorecard measure not yet updated to the four-year horizon, with low-income graduates earning $47,400.

The earnings pattern at Suny College At Geneseo reflects a program mix anchored in Education, with Education representing 19% of graduates, Business at 15%, and Social Sciences at 14%. Among the strongest-performing programs, Psychology, General program graduates 167 students with median four-year earnings of $57,972, and Azimuth ranks the program #46 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The Business Administration program graduates 124 students with median four-year earnings of $78,286, with Azimuth ranking the program #60 for median earnings four years after enrollment among nonprofit four-year institutions. Biology, General and Communication and Media Studies round out the higher-earning clusters, with four-year median earnings of $66,852 and $63,577 respectively.