Elmira College
About
Elmira College is a private college in Elmira, New York, United States. Founded as a college for women in 1855, it is the oldest existing college granting degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men. Elmira College became coeducational in all of its programs in 1969. In fall 2024, the college has an enrollment of approximately 786 students.
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 40 Title IV programs, 7 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 33 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing7 · 17.5%
- No Data33 · 82.5%
- 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 · 4
Action history · 3
- Jun 2025Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Apr 2024Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. — May 6, 2013 Formerly: National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission · Nursing (NUR) - Baccalaureate program
- Mar 2021Approved for Distance EducationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
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, 304 students received $1.7M in Pell grants, alongside $6.2M 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 345 borrowers who entered repayment, 8 (2.3%) defaulted within three years.
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 Elmira 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 · 9
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
- Public property1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Elmira College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Elmira 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectElmira College | 65% | — | 786 | $23,735 | Baccalaureate |
Albright College | 51% | 76.3% | 1,380 | $21,664 | Baccalaureate |
Coe College | 66% | 64.0% | 1,195 | $19,155 | Baccalaureate |
Colby-Sawyer College | 54% | 80.1% | 972 | $25,857 | Baccalaureate |
Elizabethtown College | 76% | 77.9% | 2,283 | $26,198 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Hartwick College | 53% | 69.6% | 1,097 | $29,800 | Baccalaureate |
Hiram College | 55% | 93.5% | 1,061 | $20,088 | Baccalaureate |
Juniata College | 74% | 78.9% | 1,321 | $27,663 | Baccalaureate |
Lebanon Valley College | 65% | 83.8% | 2,146 | $28,132 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Lycoming College | 60% | 74.1% | 1,012 | $19,258 | Baccalaureate |
Merrimack College | 70% | 70.0% | 5,862 | $37,899 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Moravian University | 72% | 54.2% | 2,745 | $29,843 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Nazareth University | 73% | 74.7% | 2,401 | $30,521 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Roanoke College | 67% | 83.1% | 1,804 | $27,786 | Baccalaureate |
Saint Francis University | 74% | 76.8% | 2,963 | $19,173 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
St. John Fisher University | 74% | 66.4% | 3,693 | $28,150 | Doctoral/Professional |
Susquehanna University | 82% | 81.4% | 2,255 | $26,539 | Baccalaureate |
Washington College | 65% | 56.9% | 923 | $29,095 | Baccalaureate |
Westminster College | 65% | 92.6% | 1,191 | $20,800 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 66% | 76.6% | 1,380 | $26,539 |
Elmira College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The page is part of the Gannett-Tripp Library LibGuides at Elmira College and provides a section titled RG22 Institutional Research which is associated with research, planning, and assessment.
Visit IR office pageReports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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