unitid 195030 · Rochester, NY · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
University of Rochester
Private university in New York, US
- founded
- 1850
- enrollment 2023
- 13,860
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- rochester.edu/
- motto
- “Meliora”
The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded in 1850 and moved into its current campus, next to the Genesee River, in 1930. With approximately 30,000 full-time employees, the university is the largest private employer in Upstate New York and the seventh-largest in all of New York State. wikipedia rev 1364217717 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
40%
13th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
6,331
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
17%
undergrads on Pell grants
15th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
85%
finish within 150% time
91st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$85,962
96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$29,278
after aid, aided students
79th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$79,042
after entry, Title IV students
91st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$21,000
25th 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 $9,678 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
- 0-30k21%
- 30-48k12%
- 48-75knot reported
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $62,874
- First-generation students
- 19%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $67,080
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.8× 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 768 | — | — |
| Biology, General. | 230 | $79,479 | $21,000 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 201 | $92,348 | $31,000 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 201 | — | $22,250 |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 173 | $67,923 | $21,000 |
| Computer Science. | 141 | — | $19,000 |
| Music. | 140 | $34,412 | $26,769 |
| Economics. | 104 | $102,906 | $19,946 |
| Medicine. | 102 | — | — |
| Educational Administration and Supervision. | 89 | — | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 85 | $123,998 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 84 | $112,262 | — |
— 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 · 2,893 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 (1,040) · university teacher (351) · economist (152) · physicist (134) · writer (63) · historian (61) · politician (61) · mathematician (60)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Arthur Kornberg Medicine 1959
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Medicine 1976
- Steven Chu Physics 1997
- Masatoshi Koshiba Physics 2002
- Richard Thaler Economics 2017
- Donna Strickland Physics 2018
- Harvey J. Alter Medicine 2020
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Donna Strickland
89 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Steven Chu
79 wikis · Public domain
Masatoshi Koshiba
75 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Arthur Kornberg
61 wikis · Public domain
Richard Thaler
59 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
56 wikis · Public domain
Harvey J. Alter
55 wikis · Public domain
Robert Forster
45 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lewis A. Swift
38 wikis · Public domain
Lance Reddick
37 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Debra Jo Rupp
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Carol J. Adams
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Josh Shapiro
34 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Bruce Schneier
33 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Also recorded: Shirley Jackson.
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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.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364217717), CC BY-SA 4.0.