College ROI Rankings: New York

Sorted by break-even years · Data: U.S. Dept. of Education

#	College	ROI Score	Break-Even	10-yr Salary	Grad Rate
1	Cornell University Ithaca	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.2 yrs	$104,043	95.4%
2	Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.2 yrs	$104,043	—
3	SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.2 yrs	$109,601	—
4	United States Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.2 yrs	$90,610	82.4%
5	Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Albany	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$131,426	67.5%
6	Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$96,980	100%
7	Colgate University Hamilton	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$85,139	91.2%
8	Columbia University in the City of New York New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$102,491	96.1%
9	The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$83,847	81.1%
10	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$75,971	72.1%
11	Upstate Medical University Syracuse	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$92,257	—
12	Excelsior University Albany	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.3 yrs	$78,493	—
13	Barnard College New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$80,516	93%
14	CUNY City College New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$66,039	56.8%
15	CUNY Queens College Queens	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$62,763	53.3%
16	Hamilton College Clinton	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$78,411	90.6%
17	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$102,051	83.6%
18	Binghamton University Vestal	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$80,596	81.6%
19	SUNY Maritime College Throggs Neck	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.4 yrs	$95,951	64.4%
20	Clarkson University Potsdam	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$89,696	74.9%
21	CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$60,752	53.9%
22	CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$65,991	—
23	CUNY Hunter College New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$63,163	56.9%
24	Fordham University Bronx	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$85,569	81.9%
25	Manhattan University Riverdale	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$86,316	63.7%
26	New York University New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$82,509	87.6%
27	University of Rochester Rochester	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$79,042	85.4%
28	Farmingdale State College Farmingdale	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$69,781	52.8%
29	Stony Brook University Stony Brook	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$74,502	75.6%
30	Union College Schenectady	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.5 yrs	$88,604	80.4%
31	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$56,195	55.8%
32	CUNY Lehman College Bronx	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$58,013	51.3%
33	CUNY York College Jamaica	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$56,945	32.3%
34	Marist University Poughkeepsie	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$77,819	79.6%
35	Skidmore College Saratoga Springs	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$69,363	82.6%
36	University at Buffalo Buffalo	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$70,814	75.2%
37	SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$55,763	66.3%
38	Syracuse University Syracuse	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$79,164	83.6%
39	Vassar College Poughkeepsie	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$71,366	91.1%
40	Yeshiva University New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.6 yrs	$71,353	83.2%
41	Adelphi University Garden City	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$75,482	67.2%
42	Iona University New Rochelle	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$73,595	56%
43	Molloy University Rockville Centre	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$77,789	69.9%
44	New York Institute of Technology Old Westbury	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$70,080	58.8%
45	Pace University New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$70,378	60%
46	Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$76,571	69.9%
47	Siena College Loudonville	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$76,079	74.7%
48	University at Albany Albany	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$67,979	61.5%
49	SUNY Polytechnic Institute Utica	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$64,355	55.1%
50	SUNY College at Geneseo Geneseo	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$67,316	71.5%
51	Wagner College Staten Island	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.7 yrs	$74,360	65.1%
52	Hofstra University Hempstead	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.8 yrs	$69,039	68.5%
53	St. John Fisher University Rochester	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.8 yrs	$66,944	74.2%
54	St. John's University-New York Queens	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.8 yrs	$69,571	66.1%
55	SUNY Old Westbury Old Westbury	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.8 yrs	$58,526	44.6%
56	D'Youville University Buffalo	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$66,942	67.5%
57	Hobart William Smith Colleges Geneva	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$68,831	77.3%
58	Mount Saint Mary College Newburgh	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$67,705	65.5%
59	University of Mount Saint Vincent Bronx	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$65,756	56.8%
60	St Lawrence University Canton	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$67,258	79.1%
61	St. Joseph's University-New York Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$63,905	68.8%
62	SUNY Oneonta Oneonta	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$60,386	68.8%
63	Utica University Utica	🟢 Excellent ROI	0.9 yrs	$63,277	56.2%
64	College of Staten Island CUNY Staten Island	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$53,501	33.9%
65	CUNY New York City College of Technology Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$49,365	21.5%
66	Daemen University Amherst	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$61,808	58.9%
67	Ithaca College Ithaca	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$63,548	76.2%
68	Le Moyne College Syracuse	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$62,731	73.1%
69	St. Thomas Aquinas College Sparkill	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$62,909	54%
70	State University of New York at Cortland Cortland	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$60,236	68%
71	State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz	🟢 Excellent ROI	1 yrs	$58,073	71.6%
72	Canisius University Buffalo	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.1 yrs	$60,681	66.4%
73	Dominican University New York Orangeburg	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.1 yrs	$61,171	52.5%
74	Long Island University Brookville	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.1 yrs	$59,950	57.1%
75	Russell Sage College Troy	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.1 yrs	$58,316	56.1%
76	State University of New York at Oswego Oswego	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.1 yrs	$57,566	60.4%
77	Touro University New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.1 yrs	$53,419	72.4%
78	Hartwick College Oneonta	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$61,107	53.3%
79	LIM College New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$58,956	50.9%
80	Manhattanville University Purchase	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$58,832	58.4%
81	St. Francis College Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$58,099	54.6%
82	SUNY College of Technology at Delhi Delhi	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$51,629	45.4%
83	State University of New York at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$56,403	58.5%
84	Empire State University Saratoga Springs	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.2 yrs	$54,080	41.2%
85	SUNY Brockport Brockport	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.3 yrs	$54,496	55.1%
86	CUNY Medgar Evers College Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.4 yrs	$46,498	19.8%
87	Elmira College Elmira	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.4 yrs	$57,550	64.7%
88	Keuka College Keuka Park	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.4 yrs	$58,289	58.4%
89	St Bonaventure University Saint Bonaventure	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.4 yrs	$57,214	66.7%
90	Mercy University Dobbs Ferry	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.5 yrs	$52,055	45.7%
91	Nazareth University Rochester	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.5 yrs	$56,458	72.8%
92	Niagara University Niagara University	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.5 yrs	$56,196	74.5%
93	Roberts Wesleyan University Rochester	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.5 yrs	$55,031	66.7%
94	Alfred University Alfred	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.6 yrs	$54,897	57%
95	The New School New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.6 yrs	$52,901	69.4%
96	SUNY Buffalo State University Buffalo	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.6 yrs	$52,334	33.3%
97	SUNY at Fredonia Fredonia	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.6 yrs	$54,247	50.2%
98	Pratt Institute-Main Brooklyn	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.7 yrs	$54,295	73.5%
99	Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville	🟢 Excellent ROI	1.8 yrs	$53,603	71.3%
100	SUNY College of Technology at Canton Canton	🟢 Excellent ROI	2.2 yrs	$47,860	38.5%
101	Marymount Manhattan College New York	🟢 Excellent ROI	2.5 yrs	$49,131	49%
102	Hilbert College Hamburg	🟢 Excellent ROI	2.6 yrs	$48,309	56.3%
103	SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill Cobleskill	🟢 Excellent ROI	2.6 yrs	$45,030	42.3%
104	SUNY College at Potsdam Potsdam	🟢 Excellent ROI	2.7 yrs	$47,866	45.3%
105	Bard College Annandale-On-Hudson	🔵 Good ROI	3.1 yrs	$46,543	67.6%
106	Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science Paul Smiths	🔵 Good ROI	3.1 yrs	$46,145	50.6%
107	Houghton University Houghton	🔵 Good ROI	3.2 yrs	$46,721	65.2%
108	SUNY at Purchase College Purchase	🔵 Good ROI	3.3 yrs	$45,092	62.8%
109	DeVry College of New York New York	🔵 Good ROI	3.4 yrs	$45,987	30.8%
110	School of Visual Arts New York	🔵 Good ROI	3.5 yrs	$46,459	75.7%
111	Metropolitan College of New York New York	🔵 Good ROI	3.7 yrs	$46,236	40%
112	Berkeley College-New York New York	🔵 Good ROI	4.3 yrs	$45,884	44%
113	Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York	🔵 Good ROI	5 yrs	$92,751	90.3%
114	The College of Westchester White Plains	🟡 Fair ROI	7.9 yrs	$42,215	37.7%
115	Yeshiva of Nitra Rabbinical College Chester	🔴 Slow ROI	18.7 yrs	$41,785	11.3%
116	Machzikei Hadath Rabbinical College Brooklyn	🔴 Slow ROI	19.7 yrs	$41,527	33.3%
117	Talmudical Seminary Oholei Torah Brooklyn	🔴 Slow ROI	79.9 yrs	$39,230	22.2%
118	Villa Maria College Buffalo	🔴 Slow ROI	326.9 yrs	$38,857	31.5%
119	Albany Law School Albany	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
120	Albany Medical College Albany	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
121	Bank Street College of Education New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
122	Boricua College New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	$35,348	80.6%
123	Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
124	Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	$35,023	5.1%
125	Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Rochester	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
126	CUNY School of Law Long Island City	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
127	Yeshiva of Far Rockaway Derech Ayson Rabbinical Seminary Far Rockaway	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	20%
128	Five Towns College Dix Hills	⚪ Limited Data	—	$35,887	55.3%
129	The Juilliard School New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	$37,827	92.6%
130	Kehilath Yakov Rabbinical Seminary Ossining	⚪ Limited Data	—	$36,442	63.4%
131	Manhattan School of Music New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	$26,878	78.3%
132	Mesivta Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	50%
133	Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	6.7%
134	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
135	Northeast College of Health Sciences Seneca Falls	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
136	New York Law School New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
137	New York Medical College Valhalla	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
138	New York College of Podiatric Medicine New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
139	Davis College Pottersville	⚪ Limited Data	—	$38,450	26.7%
140	Rabbinical Academy Mesivta Rabbi Chaim Berlin Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	46.2%
141	Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	$20,707	82.9%
142	Rabbinical Seminary of America Flushing	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	30.3%
143	The Rockefeller University New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
144	St Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry Rochester	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
145	Sh'or Yoshuv Rabbinical College Lawrence	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
146	Saint Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary Yonkers	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
147	SUNY College of Optometry New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
148	Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York Rochester	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
149	Teachers College at Columbia University New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	$73,294	—
150	Torah Temimah Talmudical Seminary Staten Island	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
151	Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
152	United Talmudical Seminary Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	$25,113	58.1%
153	United States Military Academy West Point	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	87.1%
154	Webb Institute Glen Cove	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	88%
155	Yeshiva Karlin Stolin Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	22.9%
156	Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah Kew Gardens	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	53.3%
157	Yeshivath Viznitz Monsey	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	69.3%
158	Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
159	Bais Medrash Elyon Monsey	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
160	HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
161	New York Academy of Art New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
162	Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D'spinka Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	$36,545	21.6%
163	Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
164	Rabbinical College of Ohr Shimon Yisroel Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	41.2%
165	New York College of Health Professions Syosset	⚪ Limited Data	—	$31,601	50%
166	Yeshiva D'monsey Rabbinical College Monsey	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	6.3%
167	New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Mineola	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
168	Northeastern Seminary Rochester	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
169	Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid Far Rockaway	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	52.6%
170	Uta Mesivta of Kiryas Joel Monroe	⚪ Limited Data	—	$31,853	70.2%
171	Talmudical Seminary of Bobov Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	$22,432	39.2%
172	Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	73.8%
173	Be'er Yaakov Talmudic Seminary Spring Valley	⚪ Limited Data	—	$17,360	58.8%
174	Sotheby's Institute of Art-NY New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
175	Yeshiva Gedolah Kesser Torah Monsey	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	34.8%
176	Rabbinical College Ohr Yisroel Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	36.4%
177	Bet Medrash Gadol Ateret Torah Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	57.7%
178	Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	57.1%
179	Yeshiva Sholom Shachna Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	30.4%
180	Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine Manhasset	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
181	Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh Far Rockaway	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	50%
182	Central Yeshiva Beth Joseph Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
183	Yeshiva Shaar Ephraim Monsey	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	6.3%
184	Mechon L'hoyroa Monsey	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
185	Yeshiva Kollel Tifereth Elizer Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	80%
186	Congregation Talmidei Mesivta Tiferes Shmiel Aleksander Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	25.9%
187	IE New York College New York	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
188	Yeshiva Yesoda Hatorah Vetz Chaim Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	42.9%
189	Academy for Jewish Religion Yonkers	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	—
190	Yeshiva of Kasho Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	10.9%
191	Yeshivas Sanz Klauzenburg Brooklyn	⚪ Limited Data	—	—	31%

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