CUNY Medgar Evers College
About
Medgar Evers College is a public college in New York City, United States. It is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), offering baccalaureate and associate degrees. It was established in 1970 in central Brooklyn. It is named after Medgar Evers, an African American civil rights leader assassinated on June 12, 1963.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 33 Title IV programs, 17 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 16 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing17 · 51.5%
- No Data16 · 48.5%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Programmatic accreditations · 6
Action history · 8
- Apr 2024Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. — May 6, 2013 Formerly: National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission · Nursing (NUR) - Baccalaureate program
- Apr 2024Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. — May 6, 2013 Formerly: National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission · Nursing (ADNUR) - Associate degree programs
- Aug 2020Approved for Distance EducationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Sep 2019Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. — May 6, 2013 Formerly: National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission · Nursing (NUR) - Baccalaureate program
- Sep 2019Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. — May 6, 2013 Formerly: National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission · Nursing (ADNUR) - Associate degree programs
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 2,367 students received $12.4M in Pell grants, alongside $2.1M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 796 borrowers who entered repayment, 27 (3.3%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at CUNY Medgar Evers College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 4
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus1
- Public property10
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Data quality: 1 report was later determined unfounded across the reporting period and are excluded from the totals above.
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
CUNY Medgar Evers College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions CUNY Medgar Evers College selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectCUNY Medgar Evers College | 20% | — | 3,736 | $5,881 | Baccalaureate |
Charter Oak State College | 100% | — | 2,012 | $15,663 | Baccalaureate |
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania | 41% | — | 617 | $9,837 | Baccalaureate |
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | 56% | 89.7% | 896 | $18,707 | Baccalaureate |
New College of Florida | 67% | 73.2% | 881 | $4,536 | Baccalaureate |
St. Mary's College of Maryland | 70% | 68.6% | 1,630 | $18,362 | Baccalaureate |
SUNY at Purchase College | 63% | 74.0% | 3,333 | $19,067 | Baccalaureate |
University of Mary Washington | 66% | 79.8% | 3,826 | $21,108 | Baccalaureate |
University of Minnesota-Morris | 63% | 74.9% | 981 | $9,110 | Baccalaureate |
University of New Hampshire at Manchester | 59% | 80.9% | 663 | $13,302 | Baccalaureate |
University of North Carolina Asheville | 54% | 91.9% | 3,056 | $12,865 | Baccalaureate |
University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg | 40% | 95.2% | 1,321 | $17,034 | Baccalaureate |
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma | 44% | 65.8% | 1,027 | $8,543 | Baccalaureate |
University of Virginia's College at Wise | 47% | 28.5% | 2,167 | $11,180 | Baccalaureate |
Virginia Military Institute | 76% | 71.2% | 1,527 | $18,849 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 59% | 74.5% | 1,527 | $13,302 |
CUNY Medgar Evers College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The Office of Institutional Research & Assessment (OIRA) is responsible for carrying out overall institutional assessment and research, and providing information for improvement, planning and decision-making at the college.
Visit IR office page- Mr. Norman NarcisseIR Analyst & Workload Coordinator
- Mr. Cesar MorenoIR Analyst
Reports & documents (2)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
- DFR reportIPEDS Data Feedback Report 20242024nces.ed.gov
- FactbookYork College Annual Factbook2024The York College Annual Factbook is produced annually and is organized into 15 sections, which include data on key metrics such as enrollment, degrees granted, courses, retention and graduation, faculty, library, and finance.york.cuny.edu
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