Overview of institution

• Institution kind: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity

• Undergrad program: Arts & sciences plus professions, high graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school

• Enrollment profile: Majority undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $29,499 (1.5 times the equivalent cost of Harvard).

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, large, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 26% of first year students come from New York

• In US percentage: 78% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 87.1% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 78.5%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 5.8%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 13.2 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 4.4 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice, Doctor’s degree: other

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 12622 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Covid vaccination requirement for students: At some point during the pandemic (this may have changed), this institution required students to be vaccinated against covid (based on info from here)

• Covid vaccination requirement for faculty/staff: At some point during the pandemic (this may have changed), this institution required faculty and/or staff to be vaccinated against covid (based on info from here)

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 11.60 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

Overview of location

• Abortion in this state: Very protective (based on https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/ as of May 10, 2023)
• Gun law stringency: A- (higher grade = more stringent)
• State rep support for contraception: 76% of US reps from this state voted in favor of legal protections for contraception.
• State rep support for recognizing same-sex and interracial marriage: 96% of US reps from this state voted in favor of requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed in other states
• Anti-trans legislative risk for adults over the next two years: Safest (based on Erin Reed’s work, as of September 6, 2023)
• Ecological region: Northeastern coastal forests
• Biome: Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
• Distance to mountains: 35.4 miles to Appalachian Mountains
• Climate: See overview at WeatherSpark

Other links

• College Navigator: Link (from the US federal government, good for things like cost of attendance)
• College Scorecard: Link (also from the US federal government, includes information like income per major)

Similar institutions

This is using information about school size, acceptance rate, yield rate, graduation rate, cost, athletic conference, and similar metrics, but it can miss important axes of similarity (for example, culinary versus hair styling schools).

Map

Enrollment

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend	University Athletic Association	Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Undergrads (full time)	28,354 (2022)		↑ 633 per year
Undergrads (part time)	1,047 (2022)
Grad students (full time)	22,316 (2022)		↑ 751 per year
Grad students (part time)	7,427 (2022)		↓ -123 per year
Admission rate (undergrads)	12% (2022)
Yield rate (percent of applicants offered undergraduate admission who accept)	49% (2022)			✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 88%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 86%
Graduation rate (bachelors in 6 years)	87% (2022)			✪✪ Better (higher) than 25%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 70%
Transfer out rate (bachelors)	5.8% (2022)			✪✪✪✪ Better (lower) than 67%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (lower) than 81%

Student financing

At many universities, almost no students pay the listed tuition and fees (“sticker price”): instead, their financial aid package lowers this dramatically, but how much students pay can vary substantially based on family income and other factors. The tuition below is the average across many students receiving aid: your family may be asked to pay less or more than this.

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	University Athletic Association	Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Average net price (for students awarded aid)	$29,499 (2021)		✪✪✪✪ Better (lower) than 62%	✪ Better (lower) than 13%
Undergrads getting federal aid	24% (2022)		✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 75%	✪✪ Better (higher) than 31%
Undergrads getting any aid	53% (2022)		✪ Better (higher) than 12%	✪ Better (higher) than 3%
Undergrads getting Pell grants	24% (2022)		✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 88%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 61%

Teaching

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend	University Athletic Association	Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Undergrads per tenure track instructor (lower is better)	13 (2020)		↑ 0.2 per year	✪✪ Better (lower) than 29%	✪✪✪✪ Better (lower) than 76%
Undergrads per instructor (lower is better)	4.4 (2020)		↓ -0.1 per year	✪✪✪ Better (lower) than 57%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (lower) than 92%
Total instructors	5,908 (2020)		↑ 184 per year
Tenure track instructors	1,952 (2020)
Non-tenure track instructors	3,956 (2020)		↑ 178 per year

Student details

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend
Dorm capacity	12,622 (2022)		↑ 59 per year
Percent of undergrads with registered disabilities (≤3 is rounded up to 3)	12% (2022)

Institution finances

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend	University Athletic Association	Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Revenue from tution and fees	30% (2022)			✪✪ Better (lower) than 38%	✪✪ Better (lower) than 39%
Revenue	$8.3 B (2022)		↑ $481 M per year
Expenses	$8.4 B (2022)		↑ $471 M per year
Assets	$19 B (2022)		↑ $1.1 B per year	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 75%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 90%

Graduation rates

Graduation rates for bachelor’s degrees within 150% of normal time (6 years for a 4-year degree). Note that this uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races. For groups with small numbers, the graduation rate may be highly variable year to year (do all three people in this group graduate this year or just two of three, for example).

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	University Athletic Association	Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Total	87% (2022)		✪✪ Better (higher) than 25%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 70%
Men	85% (2022)		✪✪ Better (higher) than 25%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 71%
Women	89% (2022)		✪ Better (higher) than 12%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 69%
American Indian or Alaska Native men	100% (2022)		✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 100%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 100%
American Indian or Alaska Native women	83% (2022)		✪ Better (higher) than 20%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 63%
Asian men	87% (2022)		✪ Better (higher) than 14%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 69%
Asian women	91% (2022)		✪✪ Better (higher) than 38%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 69%
Black or African American men	85% (2022)		✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 50%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 85%
Black or African American women	86% (2022)		✪✪ Better (higher) than 38%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 72%
Hispanic men	84% (2022)		✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 62%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 77%
Hispanic women	88% (2022)		✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 50%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 75%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander men	33% (2022)		✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 75%	✪ Better (higher) than 20%
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander women	100% (2022)		✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 100%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 100%
White men	84% (2022)		✪✪ Better (higher) than 25%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 63%
White women	86% (2022)		✪ Better (higher) than 12%	✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 53%
Two or more races men	82% (2022)		✪ Better (higher) than 14%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 64%
Two or more races women	87% (2022)		✪✪ Better (higher) than 29%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 67%

Freshmen demographics

Demographic data for first time degree-seeking students. Note that this uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years
Men (percent freshmen)	39% (2022)
Women (percent freshmen)	61% (2022)
American Indian or Alaska Native men (percent freshmen)	0.0% (2022)
American Indian or Alaska Native women (percent freshmen)	0.1% (2022)
Asian men (percent freshmen)	9.1% (2022)
Asian women (percent freshmen)	12% (2022)
Black or African American men (percent freshmen)	2.0% (2022)
Black or African American women (percent freshmen)	5.7% (2022)
Hispanic men (percent freshmen)	5.4% (2022)
Hispanic women (percent freshmen)	11% (2022)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander men (percent freshmen)	0.0% (2022)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander women (percent freshmen)	0.1% (2022)
White men (percent freshmen)	7.9% (2022)
White women (percent freshmen)	13% (2022)
Two or more races men (percent freshmen)	1.5% (2022)
Two or more races women (percent freshmen)	3.0% (2022)
Race ethnicity unknown men (percent freshmen)	1.6% (2022)
Race ethnicity unknown women (percent freshmen)	2.1% (2022)
Nonresident alien men (percent freshmen)	10% (2021)
Nonresident alien women (percent freshmen)	13% (2021)

Freshmen geography

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years
In state	26% (2022)
US	78% (2022)
Not reported	0% (2022)

Tenure track faculty

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons. Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend
Total (tenure-track count)	1,952 (2020)
Women (tenure-track count)	721 (2020)		↑ 10 per year
Men (tenure-track count)	1,231 (2020)
American Indian or Alaska Native (tenure-track count)	1 (2020)
Asian (tenure-track count)	244 (2020)		↑ 7.9 per year
Black or African American (tenure-track count)	98 (2020)		↑ 3.5 per year
Hispanic or Latino (tenure-track count)	98 (2020)		↑ 2.8 per year
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (tenure-track count)	1 (2020)		↓ -0.2 per year
White (tenure-track count)	1,356 (2020)
Two or more races (tenure-track count)	8 (2020)		↑ 0.9 per year
Nonresident alien (tenure-track count)	135 (2020)

Non-tenure track faculty

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position. Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend
Total (non-tenure-track count)	3,956 (2020)		↑ 178 per year
Women (non-tenure-track count)	1,852 (2020)		↑ 92 per year
Men (non-tenure-track count)	2,104 (2020)		↑ 85 per year
American Indian or Alaska Native (non-tenure-track count)	2 (2020)		↓ -0.7 per year
Asian (non-tenure-track count)	745 (2020)		↑ 39 per year
Black or African American (non-tenure-track count)	193 (2020)
Hispanic or Latino (non-tenure-track count)	207 (2020)		↑ 14 per year
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (non-tenure-track count)	5 (2020)
White (non-tenure-track count)	2,567 (2020)		↑ 107 per year
Two or more races (non-tenure-track count)	19 (2020)		↑ 2.0 per year
Nonresident alien (non-tenure-track count)	184 (2020)

Library facilities

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend	University Athletic Association	Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity
Number of physical books	3.1 M (2022)			✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 88%	✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 75%
Physical library circulations per students and faculty	1.7 (2020)		↓ -0.5 per year	✪✪ Better (higher) than 29%	✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 50%
Digital library circulations per students and faculty	177 (2020)			✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 71%	✪✪✪✪✪ Better (higher) than 89%

SAT scores

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend
Applicants submitting SAT	26% (2022)
SAT Evidence Based Reading and Writing 25th percentile score	720 (2022)		↑ 15 per year
SAT Evidence Based Reading and Writing 75th percentile score	770 (2022)		↑ 10.0 per year
SAT Math 25th percentile score	750 (2022)		↑ 17 per year
SAT Math 75th percentile score	800 (2022)		↑ 8.3 per year

ACT scores

	New York University	Change over ≤ 12 years	Trend
Applicants submitting ACT	11% (2022)
ACT Composite 25th percentile score	33 (2022)		↑ 0.6 per year
ACT Composite 75th percentile score	35 (2022)		↑ 0.4 per year

Degrees by major

Demographic cliff

There is a concern that giving changing US demographics, the number of students in the age groups who most commonly attend four year colleges will drop off, decreasing overall enrollment. This is often referred to as the “demographic cliff”. This concern comes with a lot of assumptions about the rate at which students will want to go to college, students coming from outside the US, what age students are when they go to college, overall immigration and emigration rates, whether there will be more or fewer colleges competing for students, time to degree and dropout rates remaining constant, and much more, but analyses often also look at just the population of the US as a whole, even though there can be substantial variation in growth by region. For this section, I am using US census data on the number of people in each state by age, and the proportion of students that come from each state for this particular college, to crudely model what will happen if everything remains constant except the demographic change in the population of 18 year olds in each year. For selective schools, they could probably change their admission rate and maintain enrollment; for less selective schools, they may need to change their marketing or other strategies to attract more students if they pull from areas with decreasing number of students of “traditional” college age, or, in rare cases, close. If there is no figure below, breakdowns of students by state are not available. Note that this uses just the 50 US states, not other US territories.

Life expectancy

This hopefully will not be relevant for potential students, but it may be for people moving to an area longer term, such as faculty and staff choosing where to live. This uses information from US National Vital Statistics Reports for 2020; like much federal data, it assumes people are male or female. For age difference from median, it is from the median state, averaging across all genders (one consequence of this is that the difference from the median life expectancy is almost always negative for men).

• Life expectancy at birth: 80.7 years women (4 years over the median), 74.8 years men (1.9 years below the median)
• Remaining life expectancy at age 18: 63.2 years women (3.8 years over the median), 57.3 years men (2.1 years below the median)
• Remaining life expectancy at age 30: 51.5 years women (3.3 years over the median), 46.1 years men (2.1 years below the median)
• Remaining life expectancy at age 45: 37.3 years women (2.8 years over the median), 32.6 years men (1.9 years below the median)
• Remaining life expectancy at age 60: 24 years women (2 years over the median), 20.4 years men (1.5 years below the median)

We can also plot the extra / fewer years of life expected for this state (red) compared to other states (dark gray) at each age. Again, this is normalized for the median state.