unitid 193900 · New York, NY · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
New York University
Private university in New York City, New York
- founded
- 1831
- enrollment 2023
- 64,951
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- nyu.edu
- motto
- “Perstare et praestare”
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a non-denominational all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education. The university moved in 1833 and has maintained its main campus in Greenwich Village surrounding Washington Square Park. Since then, the university has added an engineering school in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center and graduate schools throughout Manhattan. wikipedia rev 1363209119 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
9%
3rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
28,663
100th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
18%
undergrads on Pell grants
16th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
88%
finish within 150% time
93rd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$84,374
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$37,050
after aid, aided students
92nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$82,509
after entry, Title IV students
92nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$20,500
22nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $16,977 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k28%
- 30-48k14%
- 48-75k14%
- 75-110k12%
- 110k+32%
- Median family income
- $51,966
- First-generation students
- 21%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $62,796
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.0× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 1,174 | $196,380 | — |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 967 | — | — |
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management. | 636 | $169,668 | — |
| General Sales, Merchandising and Related Marketing Operations. | 593 | $144,523 | — |
| Computer Engineering. | 581 | — | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 573 | $149,736 | $19,734 |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 565 | $74,754 | — |
| Economics. | 540 | $105,120 | $21,250 |
| Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities. | 538 | $68,008 | $21,787 |
| Social Work. | 532 | $70,815 | — |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 499 | — | $21,499 |
| Biology, General. | 473 | $95,205 | — |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 8,482 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,261) · university teacher (884) · writer (779) · journalist (444) · actor (434) · politician (339) · screenwriter (314) · film director (310)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- George Wald Medicine 1967
- Julius Axelrod Medicine 1970
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Medicine 1977
- Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry 1985
- Gertrude B. Elion Medicine 1988
- Clifford Shull Physics 1994
- Shimon Peres Peace 1994
- Frederick Reines Physics 1995
- Irwin Rose Chemistry 2004
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Angelina Jolie
171 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Woody Allen
157 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Shimon Peres
127 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Anne Hathaway
112 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Whoopi Goldberg
105 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Erich Fromm
105 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Chris Evans
99 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jonas Salk
89 wikis · Public domain
Oliver Stone
87 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mario Puzo
87 wikis · Public domain
Gertrude B. Elion
86 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
86 wikis · Public domain
Dakota Fanning
85 wikis · CC0
Burt Lancaster
84 wikis · Public domain
Timothée Chalamet
84 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363209119), CC BY-SA 4.0.