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University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla

PRSmall public institution · Overall rank #487 nationally

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Azimuth ranks University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla #487 among 1,467 nonprofit four-year institutions.

Who it’s a good fit for

The University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla is a public university in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, where Business and Biological Sciences account for nearly all degrees awarded. Affordability is among the highest we track, and access is among the highest we track.

Graduates earn less than predicts for students like them, and the typical graduate earns below the median at comparable schools. Return is below the levels seen at many peers.

The model attributes an addition to the factors it measures and a subtraction to the remainder it cannot explain. The lowest income band pays an , the sticker price minus all grant aid, well below the published cost, and the highest band pays the full sticker.

The spread between the two ends is narrow, and median federal debt is below the median at comparable schools. The admission rate is within a few points of the median for comparable schools.

A student drawn to the largest programs should know that the best-paid ones are not the largest.

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla at a glance

Admissions and outcomes

Admission rate[1]
81.4%
Six-year completion[2]
46.3%
Four-year earnings[3]
$29,117

Cost and family borrowing

Average annual net price · $48–75K family income[6]
$9,454
Median student debt[4]
$5,500
Median Parent PLUS debt[7]
Not reported

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla rankings: how Azimuth assesses value[5]

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla enrolls 1,883 undergraduates at its campus in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, where it operates as a public university. Among nonprofit four-year institutions, it sits in the upper third of the ranking (composite at the 67th percentile).

The university admits 81.4% of those who apply, a rate just under the 83.4% median for comparable institutions (same type and size). Retention for the full-time first-year cohort is 69.0%, against a peer median of 73.4%.

The six-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time students is 46.3%, compared with a peer median of 43.5%. An estimated 7.6% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students, so that rate describes only a minority of the people who study here.

Affordability is the strongest of the four , at the 99th percentile, while return is the weakest, at the 1st percentile. Access also ranks high, at the 93rd percentile, and mobility sits in the middle at the 61st percentile.

The spread between them is wide, with affordability and access as the clear strengths and earnings outcomes as the main tension.

Affordability is the pillar that stands out most at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla, sitting in the 99th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Access is also strong, in the 93rd percentile.

Mobility is in the 61st percentile. Return is the weakest of the four, in the 1st percentile, and the gap between the strongest and weakest pillars is wide.

The middle 50% of submitted SAT scores at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla fell between 791 and 1,023. 82.6% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.

Azimuth ranks the university #97 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. The Pell share is the primary figure shaping that pillar.

Azimuth ranks the university #456 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates earn about $194 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.

How value-added outcomes are assessed · How to interpret program rankings

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla rankings in context
GeographyRank
National#487

Azimuth overall value rankings within each geographic comparison group.

National pillar percentiles

Economic mobility
National percentile: 61
Access & reach
National percentile: 93
Affordability
National percentile: 99
Return on investment
National percentile: 1

Top-ranked majors

  1. Human Resources Management and Services#71
  2. Marketing#222

This school’s two highest-ranked programs nationally. Each rank compares bachelor’s programs in the same field; field sizes differ.

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University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla cost & financial aid[6][7]

In-state tuition and fees at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla run $5,954, and out-of-state residents pay the same amount. The full published cost of attendance is $14,498.

After grants and scholarships, the average aid recipient pays $7,765. That average sits $5,057 below the $12,822 median net price for comparable institutions (same type and size).

For the average aid recipient, aid covers about 46% of the published cost, a savings of $6,733 against the sticker price. Azimuth ranks the university #4 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions. That places the affordability pillar in the 99th percentile.

The published cost of attendance is $14,498, and Azimuth ranks University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla #4 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions. After grants and scholarships, the average net price for aid recipients from families earning under $30,000 is $7,200, for those earning $48,001 to $75,000 it is $9,454, and for those earning over $110,000 it is $14,498.

The spread between the lowest and highest bands is $7,298. Aid saves the average recipient $6,733 against the sticker price.

The average net price across all aid recipients is $7,765, which is $5,057 below the $12,822 median for comparable institutions (same type and size). Borrowers who finish carry a median of $5,500 in federal student loans, $14,000 below the median for comparable institutions of $19,500.

About 10.8% of federal aid recipients take federal loans. That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $63 a month if repaid over ten years.

It estimates your cost and aid scenario, not a promise, and can help you see what the numbers mean for your family.

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Reported average annual net price · $48–75K$9,454

After grants and scholarships. Your aid offer may differ.

Averages within each income band; individual aid packages vary.

Borrowing and repayment at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla

10.8% of federal aid recipients at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla take federal loans. Among borrowers who complete, the median federal student debt is $5,500.

That is $14,000 below the $19,500 median for comparable institutions (same type and size). If repaid over ten years, the median debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $63 a month.

Federally aided graduates of University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla earn a median of $29,117 four years after completion. That falls $23,999 below the $53,116 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Azimuth places that in the 1st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Against the model's expectation, federally aided completers earn about $194 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.

Azimuth places that outcome in the 54th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Scenarios estimated from the program mix show a downside of $27,223 and an upside of $65,681.

Borrowers who finish carry a median of $5,500 in federal loans, $14,000 below the median for comparable institutions (same type and size). That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $63 a month if repaid over ten years.

For borrowers with median federal student debt, that debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $63 a month if repaid over ten years.

How Financial GPS measures payment burden · The four risk-and-reward zones

Financial GPS

What does repayment look like?

Institution median student debt
$5,500
Institution Parent PLUS debt
No federal loan data

Federal loans only; private or institutional loans aren’t included.

Estimated student payment · monthly
$63/mo
Estimated Parent PLUS payment · monthly
No federal loan data

Payments use school-wide median balances, not a specific major’s.

Payment assumptions

Payments are 10-year standard payments on the median balance, before loan fees, used as a yardstick. Rates for newly issued loans may differ, and loans made after July 1, 2026 can repay over a longer term; existing loans keep their original fixed rates.

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University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla career outcomes & earnings[3][8][9]

Azimuth places the return pillar at the 1st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions. Four years after completing a degree, federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $29,117, in the 1st percentile.

That is $23,999 below the $53,116 median for comparable institutions (same type and size). Graduates earn about $194 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level.

That places the gap at the 54th percentile. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $7,318.

The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $7,512. Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $7,681.

Federally aided graduates who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $29,117 four years after completing a degree at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla. That is $23,999 below the $53,116 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

The figure reflects 481 completers. That median sits at the 1st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Completers earn about $194 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. Earnings beyond expectations compare graduate pay to the model's prediction for similar students.

That result sits at the 54th percentile. Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix range from $27,223 on the downside to $65,681 on the upside, with $29,117 as the typical figure.

An estimated 40.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.

Federally aided graduates of University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla who are working and not enrolled earn a median of $29,117 four years after completion. That figure is at the 1st percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

That median falls $23,999 below the comparable median of $53,116 for institutions of the same type and size, the middle value for that peer group. The university's return rank is #1,454 among nonprofit four-year institutions.

Graduates earn about $194 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. That outcome sits at the 54th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The part the model attributes to the factors it measures (field of study, enrollment and the local labor market) adds $7,318. The part it attributes to a remainder it does not explain subtracts $7,512.

Within the measured factors, the STEM component adds $7,681. The program mix is concentrated in business and biological sciences, with a smaller presence in engineering technologies.

Earnings scenarios estimated from the program mix include $29,117 in the typical case, $27,223 on the downside and $65,681 on the upside. An estimated 40.5% of graduates continue to graduate study, based on the program mix.

Estimated earnings scenarios at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla stretch from $27,223 on the downside to $65,681 on the upside. Both figures are estimates from the program mix, not observed groups of graduates.

Management Information Systems and Services posts the highest program median at $35,212 four years after completion, from 23 degrees awarded a year. Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians is next at $34,657, with 17 degrees awarded.

The largest program with published earnings, Marketing, records median earnings of $27,076.

The published cost of attendance at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla is $14,498. The average net price, which is the annual cost after grants and scholarships for first-time, full-time aid recipients, is $7,765.

Azimuth ranks the university #4 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions. That rank sits in the 99th percentile.

Borrowers who finish leave with a median of $5,500 in federal student loans, $14,000 below the peer median of $19,500 for comparable institutions (same type and size). That debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $63 a month if repaid over ten years.

Graduates earn about $194 less than the model expects for similar students, effectively at the expected level. The median earnings four years after completion sit at $29,117, which is $23,999 below the $53,116 median for comparable institutions.

Low debt and a low net price point the same way here, even as earnings run below the peer median.

What explains value-added earnings?
Program & institutional factors The part attributed to observed institutional characteristics.
+$7,318
Unexplained remainder What remains after the model’s observed factors.
-$7,512
Total modeled value added The modeled difference from expected earnings.
-$194

These are statistical model components, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

Read the full outcomes brief

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University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla acceptance rate & admissions[1][10][11]

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla admits 81.4% of those who apply, a share that sits slightly below the median of 83.4% for comparable institutions (same type and size). Most applicants receive an offer, though the figure still describes the pool as a whole rather than any single file.

SAT: approximate enrolled-student range
Admission rate
81.4%
Approximate lower endpoint
791
Reported average
909
Approximate upper endpoint
1023

Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.

Read the full admissions brief

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What are the largest majors at University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla?[12]

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla awards most of its degrees in two families: Business at 44.1% and Biological Sciences at 42.8%. The largest program with published earnings is Marketing, with 39 degrees awarded and median earnings of $27,076 four years after completion.

Azimuth ranks it #222 nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions in its field. The highest-earning program is Management Information Systems and Services, at $35,212 from 23 degrees awarded.

Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians follows at $34,657 with 17 degrees awarded. At the more moderate end, Human Resources Management and Services graduates earn $28,488 from 21 degrees awarded, and Azimuth ranks it #71 nationally.

The highest-paid field earns about eight thousand dollars more than the largest one.

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla awards most of its bachelor's degrees in two broad families: Business at 44.1% and Biological Sciences at 42.8%. Azimuth ranks 2 of the university's programs nationally among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The largest program with published earnings is Marketing, with 39 degrees awarded and median earnings of $27,076 four years after completion. Azimuth ranks it #222 within its field.

The best nationally ranked program is Human Resources Management and Services, at #71 in its field and #2 in Puerto Rico. It awarded 21 degrees, and graduates earned a median of $28,488 four years out.

University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla awards bachelor's degrees in a tight cluster of fields. Business and Biological Sciences dominate, accounting for 44.1% and 42.8% of degrees awarded, respectively.

Engineering Technologies is a distant third at 8.2%. The university has 2 programs with an Azimuth national rank and 9 with published four-year earnings data.

The largest program with published earnings is Marketing, at 39 degrees awarded a year. Accounting and Management Information Systems and Services follow, each with 23 degrees awarded.

The highest-ranked program is Human Resources Management and Services. It ranks #2 in Puerto Rico within its field, with 21 degrees awarded.

The highest-earning program is Management Information Systems and Services, where graduates earn a median of $35,212 four years after completion. The earnings pattern is concentrated.

The highest-earning programs are mostly in business and technology fields, and the largest program with published earnings, Marketing, sits at the lower end of the earnings range at $27,076. Across all fields, 56.4% of degrees awarded are in STEM.

Four-year earnings · six largest reported fields
Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other 131 degrees awarded
Too few graduates to report
Marketing 39 degrees awarded
$27,076
Accounting and Related Services 23 degrees awarded
$29,500
Management Information Systems and Services 23 degrees awarded
$35,212
Human Resources Management and Services 21 degrees awarded
$28,488
Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technologies/Technicians 17 degrees awarded
$34,657

Fields selected by reported completions. Counts describe credentials awarded, not unique students or the earnings sample. Bars show median four-year earnings.

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What colleges are similar to University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla?[15]

Azimuth groups alternatives by admissions, location, cost and earnings, then orders candidates within each group. Peer earnings use the matched four-year cohort. How matching works.

A shortlist for different decisions

Choose a row to compare the figures with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla.

Admissions peerNorfolk State University87.8% admitted
Comparison with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
MeasureUniversity of Puerto Rico-AguadillaNorfolk State University
Peer earnings · 4 years$29,117$52,371+$23,254 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
Average annual net price$7,765$15,282+$7,517 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla · higher cost
Admission rate81.4%87.8%
Explore Norfolk State University →
Higher-admission alternativePontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce98.1% admitted
Comparison with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
MeasureUniversity of Puerto Rico-AguadillaPontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico-Ponce
Peer earnings · 4 years$29,117$27,811-$1,306 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
Average annual net price$7,765$13,192+$5,427 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla · higher cost
Admission rate81.4%98.1%
Nearby alternativeUniversity of Puerto Rico-CarolinaNearby option · PR
Comparison with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
MeasureUniversity of Puerto Rico-AguadillaUniversity of Puerto Rico-Carolina
Peer earnings · 4 years$29,117$28,995-$122 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
Average annual net price$7,765$12,945+$5,180 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla · higher cost
Admission rate81.4%54.5%
Explore University of Puerto Rico-Carolina →
Higher-earnings alternativePurdue University Northwest$73,337 earnings
Comparison with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
MeasureUniversity of Puerto Rico-AguadillaPurdue University Northwest
Peer earnings · 4 years$29,117$73,337+$44,220 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
Average annual net price$7,765$6,079-$1,686 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla · lower cost
Admission rate81.4%72.4%
Explore Purdue University Northwest →
Lower-cost alternativeUniversidad Central de Bayamon$4,827 average net price
Comparison with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
MeasureUniversity of Puerto Rico-AguadillaUniversidad Central de Bayamon
Peer earnings · 4 years$29,117$31,246+$2,129 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
Average annual net price$7,765$4,827-$2,938 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla · lower cost
Admission rate81.4%65.9%
Similar profileUniversity of Puerto Rico at PonceMatched across several measures
Comparison with University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
MeasureUniversity of Puerto Rico-AguadillaUniversity of Puerto Rico at Ponce
Peer earnings · 4 years$29,117$29,384+$267 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla
Average annual net price$7,765$10,990+$3,225 vs University of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla · higher cost
Admission rate81.4%52.5%
Explore University of Puerto Rico at Ponce →

Each school is the first-ranked match in its category, not a recommendation across every measure. The same college may lead more than one category. Figures use the matching snapshot; earnings reflect the matched four-year cohort. — means unavailable.

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Data scope & methodology

Structured payloads generated Governed hub narrative Governed spoke corpus

Four-year earnings describe cohorts of completers. Figures for other horizons describe different cohorts and are not joined into a career-growth projection.

Azimuth's overall rank and pillar percentiles come from the school profile. Absolute pillar ranks, city, enrollment and official-site links are shown only when structured data supplies them.

Detailed earnings, cost, admissions and program values come from the endpoint responsible for each measure. Missing values are not replaced with zero. Value-added estimates are model associations, not causal effects.

Figures are refreshed with each data release, at most a quarter apart. The underlying source dates can be earlier than the release.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Read the ranking methodology, data definitions and limitations · About College Azimuth

Read the analysis behind value-added earnings and the change to four-year graduate earnings. These articles are published on collegeazimuth.com.

Data notes & source fields

Scorecard field codes identify the underlying measure; Azimuth-derived values are labeled separately. Snapshot dates are not measurement years. Source populations and reporting periods differ across measures. Field definitions are in the U.S. Department of Education · College Scorecard documentation; notes with a different source link it below.

  1. Admission rate. Reported applicants admitted; not a transfer-specific or individual admission probability.

    Source fields: ADM_RATE

  2. Six-year completion. First-time, full-time students completing at the institution within 150% of normal time, typically six years for a bachelor’s degree.

    Source fields: C150_4

  3. Four-year institutional earnings. Median earnings of graduates in the reported cohort who are working and not enrolled, four years after completion.

    Source fields: MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

  4. Median federal student debt. Federal student-loan debt among completers in the reported borrowing cohort. Excludes Parent PLUS and is not total debt across all students.

    Source fields: GRAD_DEBT_MDN

  5. National, regional and state ranks; pillar percentiles; major ranks. Derived scores within the stated eligible comparison set, not raw Scorecard fields. Major ranks compare institutions within a field; their denominators differ.

    Source fields: Azimuth rankings

    College Azimuth · Ranking methodology

  6. Annual net price by family income. Average annual cost after grants and scholarships for the eligible first-time, full-time aid-recipient cohort. Public-school figures reflect in-state tuition. Includes living costs; these are averages, not medians or individual offers.

    Source fields: NPT4_PUB/PRIV; NPT41_PUB/PRIV through NPT45_PUB/PRIV

  7. Parent PLUS debt, payments and GPS illustration. Stored payments use Financial GPS loan and repayment assumptions. The adjustable spectrum applies the published framework to annual student payments divided by earnings minus an expense allowance; its initial allowance uses the frozen 2024 framework baseline. It is an illustration rather than a school rating. Parent PLUS uses the completer median where available, otherwise the all-borrower median; these describe different borrowing populations.

    Source fields: PLUS_DEBT_ALL_COMP_MD; fallback PLUS_DEBT_ALL_MD; Azimuth Financial GPS calculations

    College Azimuth · Financial GPS methodology

  8. Downside and upside earnings; yellow band. The band spans the modeled lower and higher scenarios. It is not the P25–P75 interval for individual graduates. The median marker is the separately reported institutional median.

    Source fields: Azimuth modeled program-mix scenarios

    College Azimuth · Earnings scenario methodology

  9. Value added and its components. Observed-factor attribution plus the unexplained remainder equals total modeled value added. These are associations, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

    Source fields: Azimuth statistical model

    College Azimuth · Value-added methodology

  10. SAT score range and reported midpoint. Reported scores of enrolled score-submitters, not admission cutoffs. The midpoint field is not necessarily the middle of the displayed range.

    Source fields: SATVR25 + SATMT25; SATVR75 + SATMT75; SAT_AVG

  11. First-year retention. Retention of the reported full-time cohort at four-year institutions.

    Source fields: RET_FT4

  12. Program earnings, completion counts and major-mix dots. Included bachelor’s programs have at least five reported completions. Counts are aggregated credentials, not unique people or an earnings sample. Major-mix dots group those counts by field of study; excluded programs are not zero activity.

    Source fields: EARN_MDN_4YR; IPEDSCOUNT1; CIPCODE

    College Scorecard · Field-of-study technical documentation

  13. Pell recipients. Share of undergraduates receiving a Pell Grant in the reported academic year.

    Source fields: PCTPELL

  14. Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group. This is not an observed transfer-in rate. It includes part-time entrants and other entering-student attendance patterns.

    Source fields: 1 − PFTFTUG1_EF

  15. Peer earnings and signed differences. Differences are peer minus this school, from the same matching snapshot. A positive earnings difference does not mean the peer is better on every measure.

    Source fields: Azimuth peer model using MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

    College Azimuth · Comparison methodology

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