unitid 230038 · Provo, UT · private nonprofit 4-year · city (midsize)
Brigham Young University
Private university in Provo, Utah, US
- founded
- 1875
- enrollment 2023
- 41,238
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- byu.edu/
Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is the flagship university of the Church Educational System (CES) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. wikipedia rev 1362796022 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
68%
38th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
32,952
100th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
32%
undergrads on Pell grants
47th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
81%
finish within 150% time
88th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$22,690
12th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$15,564
after aid, aided students
21st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$75,790
after entry, Title IV students
88th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$11,069
4th 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 $10,444 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
- 0-30k19%
- 30-48k13%
- 48-75knot reported
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $46,790
- First-generation students
- 14%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $6,688
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 6.8× 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences. | 302 | $70,249 | $13,000 |
| Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services. | 266 | $30,899 | $11,250 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | 256 | $107,301 | $8,727 |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 240 | — | — |
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management. | 222 | — | $9,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 216 | $118,744 | $11,750 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | 202 | $71,225 | $11,975 |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods. | 196 | $36,698 | $13,385 |
| Computer Science. | 183 | $124,873 | $12,000 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | 179 | $97,124 | $10,500 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 176 | $176,381 | — |
| Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas. | 172 | $52,995 | $9,117 |
— 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 · 2,878 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 occupationsbasketball player (585) · researcher (554) · politician (231) · university teacher (163) · writer (135) · American football player (119) · lawyer (109) · priest (79)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Paul D. Boyer Chemistry 1997
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Mitt Romney
103 wikis · Public domain
Stephenie Meyer
77 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Aaron Eckhart
64 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Orson Scott Card
57 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Stephen Covey
57 wikis · Public domain
Paul D. Boyer
55 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Brandon Sanderson
48 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lindsey Stirling
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Philo Farnsworth
41 wikis · Public domain
Orrin Hatch
41 wikis · Public domain
Kyrsten Sinema
40 wikis · Public domain
Matthew Modine
38 wikis · CC BY 3.0
James Dashner
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jeff Flake
36 wikis · Public domain
Don Bluth
35 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
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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 1362796022), CC BY-SA 4.0.