CUNY Queens College
About
CUNY Queens College is a public college located in Queens, New York, and is part of the City University of New York system. The college offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate programs in various disciplines including arts, humanities, sciences, and education. The size of the student body and the founding year is not mentioned explicitly on the provided page.
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 102 Title IV programs, 37 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 64 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing37 · 36.3%
- No Data64 · 62.7%
- Failing1 · 1.0%
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.
Near the line (±5%)
Programs within five points of the pass line, one cohort year from flipping.
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 · 7
Action history · 12
- Jul 2025Renewal of AccreditationAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics · Dietetics (DIETI) - Dietetic Internship
- Jul 2024Renewal of AccreditationAmerican Psychological Association, Commission on Accreditation · Clinical Psychology (CLPSY) - PhD Doctoral programs
- Jan 2024Approved for Distance EducationAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics · Didactic Program in Dietetics
- Jan 2024Approved for Distance EducationAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics · Dietetics (DIETI) - Dietetic Internship
- Jul 2021Renewal of AccreditationAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics · Didactic Program in Dietetics
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, 7,280 students received $43.9M in Pell grants, alongside $14.5M 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 1,470 borrowers who entered repayment, 18 (1.2%) defaulted within three years — below 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 Queens 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 · 7
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 campus3
- Public property4
Includes 1 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- National origin4
- Race3
- Religion3
- Gender identity1
- Sexual orientation1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
CUNY Queens College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions CUNY Queens 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 Queens College | 53% | — | 15,965 | $3,830 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
California State University-Dominguez Hills | 43% | 93.3% | 15,182 | $3,659 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Cleveland State University | 51% | 91.3% | 14,074 | $16,065 | R2 Research |
College of Staten Island CUNY | 46% | 92.3% | 11,033 | $5,115 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY Brooklyn College | 54% | 58.4% | 14,390 | $2,943 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY City College | 57% | 60.0% | 15,544 | $3,486 | R2 Research |
CUNY Hunter College | 57% | 53.8% | 22,538 | $2,446 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY Lehman College | 51% | 56.6% | 13,324 | $3,482 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
George Mason University | 68% | 87.5% | 39,766 | $18,287 | R1 Research |
Montclair State University | 65% | 87.9% | 23,375 | $14,159 | R2 Research |
North Carolina Central University | 42% | 87.0% | 8,579 | $15,028 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Rutgers University-Newark | 64% | 71.4% | 11,315 | $19,407 | R2 Research |
San Diego State University | 76% | 36.2% | 41,137 | $16,174 | R2 Research |
State University of New York at Cortland | 68% | 59.8% | 6,938 | $19,951 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
State University of New York at New Paltz | 72% | 61.6% | 7,898 | $18,481 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
SUNY at Fredonia | 50% | 77.7% | 3,179 | $15,644 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
SUNY Buffalo State University | 33% | 72.9% | 6,188 | $14,229 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
SUNY College at Geneseo | 71% | 66.4% | 3,945 | $18,021 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
SUNY College at Potsdam | 45% | 77.7% | 2,832 | $14,295 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
SUNY Oneonta | 69% | 69.6% | 5,337 | $18,833 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College | — | — | 7,787 | $9,219 | Baccalaureate |
University of Cincinnati-Clermont College | — | — | 9,479 | $9,457 | Baccalaureate |
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus | 75% | 85.3% | 45,026 | $23,156 | R1 Research |
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 46% | 74.7% | 23,124 | $19,133 | R1 Research |
University of Houston | 65% | 73.9% | 47,980 | $13,853 | R1 Research |
University of Illinois Chicago | 62% | 77.4% | 33,906 | $12,313 | R1 Research |
University of Massachusetts-Boston | 49% | 83.8% | 15,575 | $18,282 | R2 Research |
University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 69% | 79.6% | 31,091 | $14,745 | R2 Research |
University of North Carolina Wilmington | 71% | 64.2% | 18,848 | $19,472 | R2 Research |
| Peer group median | 57% | 74.3% | 14,390 | $14,745 |
Common Data Set (6)
The institution's official annual Common Data Set publications — the most detailed reference for enrollment, admissions, and outcomes.
Reports & documents (4)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
- DashboardDashboardqcc.cuny.edu
- Data definitionGlossary - Institutional EffectivenessThis page contains a glossary of terms related to Institutional Effectiveness at CUNY Queens College, focusing on the assessment processes and methodologies used to gauge and enhance academic performance and services. Definitions in the glossary cover assessment methods, learning outcomes, educational frameworks like Bloom's Taxonomy, and tools such as both formative and summative assessments, curriculum maps, and logic models. The glossary serves as a resource for faculty and administrators to support evidence-based decision-making in alignment with the institution's goals.qc.cuny.edu
- DFR reportIPEDS Data Feedback Report 20242024nces.ed.gov
- GlossaryGlossary - Institutional EffectivenessThe Queens College Glossary on Institutional Effectiveness includes 32 terms related to educational assessment, such as alignment, assessment processes, both formative and summative assessments, and learning outcome evaluations. These terms are defined to support faculty, students, and administrators in understanding and applying assessment practices for enhanced academic and programmatic effectiveness. The document serves as a resource for coherent understanding and consistent implementation of assessment strategies across the college.qc.cuny.edu
Grants & funding (1)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
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