SUNY College at Potsdam Acceptance Rate & Admissions

SUNY College at Potsdam admitted 77.7% of applicants in the reported cycle, placing its rate below the median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Transfer pathways are a visible part of the undergraduate mix at SUNY College at Potsdam, where an estimated 30.7% of undergraduates enter after beginning elsewhere. Pell Grants reach 40.3% of undergraduates, placing federal grant recipients alongside transfer entrants in a campus of 1,823 undergraduates.

This composition suggests that the university serves people arriving through more than one route into a degree, rather than only direct entrants from high school. These enrollment figures describe who attends; they do not describe admission priorities or an individual applicant’s odds.

Completion sits above the comparable-institution benchmark at SUNY College at Potsdam, with a 45.3% six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort. That rate is above the peer median, the middle value for comparable institutions (same type and size), of 43.5%.

First-year retention is 77.7%, also above its peer median of 73.4%, showing that returning after the first year and finishing within six years both exceed those benchmarks. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort have a 47.8% six-year completion rate, above the overall rate by 2.5 percentage points.

Enrolled students can expect these measures to summarize prior cohorts, not set an individual timetable for completing a degree.