unitid 196413 · Syracuse, NY · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
Syracuse University
Private university in Syracuse, New York, US
- founded
- 1870
- enrollment 2023
- 37,473
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- syracuse.edu
- motto
- “Suos Cultores Scientia Coronat”
Syracuse University is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. It was established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church but has been nonsectarian since 1920. Located in the city's University Hill neighborhood, east and southeast of downtown Syracuse, the large campus features an eclectic mix of architecture, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival to contemporary buildings. Syracuse University is organized into 13 schools and colleges and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". wikipedia rev 1364513029 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
46%
17th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
15,477
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
17%
undergrads on Pell grants
15th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
84%
finish within 150% time
90th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$84,517
95th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$38,793
after aid, aided students
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$79,164
after entry, Title IV students
91st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$26,000
71st 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 $15,817 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
- 0-30k18%
- 30-48k11%
- 48-75k14%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $78,436
- First-generation students
- 19%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $65,528
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.0× 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. | 426 | — | — |
| Psychology, General. | 262 | $63,889 | $26,865 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 246 | $123,542 | — |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 235 | $69,954 | $27,000 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 218 | $83,644 | $26,000 |
| Public Administration. | 205 | $109,591 | — |
| Economics. | 199 | $82,376 | $26,000 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 199 | — | — |
| Law. | 180 | $97,544 | — |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 168 | $109,595 | $27,000 |
| Information Science/Studies. | 166 | $101,251 | $26,694 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 152 | — | — |
— 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
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- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 11,835 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 occupationsAmerican football player (2,914) · rower (2,704) · association football player (1,208) · lacrosse player (791) · basketball player (601) · researcher (447) · university teacher (314) · academic (213)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Joe Biden
278 wikis · Public domain
Shaquille O'Neal
84 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Lou Reed
79 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Vera Farmiga
73 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Billy Joel
67 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Peter Falk
65 wikis · Public domain
Stephen Crane
64 wikis · Public domain
Joyce Carol Oates
61 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vanessa Williams
56 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Suzanne Pleshette
56 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Kevin Michael Richardson
55 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Aaron Sorkin
53 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Carmelo Anthony
52 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Grace Jones
52 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Edie McClurg
51 wikis · CC BY 2.5
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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 1364513029), CC BY-SA 4.0.