SUNY College at Geneseo
About
SUNY College at Geneseo, founded in 1871, is a public honors college located in Geneseo, New York, covering 220 acres. The college offers 63 undergraduate degree programs and is known for its strong emphasis on research, critical thinking, and effective communication among 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
Non-Pell students graduate at a 12.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 41 Title IV programs, 21 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 20 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing21 · 51.2%
- No Data20 · 48.8%
- 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 · 2
Action history · 4
- Jun 2022Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Jan 2021Approved for Distance EducationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Nov 2017Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Dec 2012Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalAmerican Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology · Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) - Graduate 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, 1,138 students received $6.4M in Pell grants, alongside $16.1M 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 1,090 borrowers who entered repayment, 7 (0.6%) 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 SUNY College at Geneseo
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 · 14
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 campus13
- Non-campus7
Includes 11 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
- Allegany Hall1 fireMachinery/IndustrialDamage $100-$999
- Ontario Hall1 fireOpen flamesDamage $0-$99
- Seneca Hall1 fireElectricalDamage $100-$999
- Suffolk Hall1 fireElectrical1 injured · 0 deathsDamage $100-$999
Data quality: 4 reports were 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.
SUNY College at Geneseo vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions SUNY College at Geneseo 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSUNY College at Geneseo | 71% | — | 3,945 | $18,021 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Bard College | 68% | 52.1% | 2,911 | $31,771 | Baccalaureate |
Bucknell University | 86% | 28.9% | 3,969 | $40,429 | Baccalaureate |
Colgate University | 91% | 13.9% | 3,211 | $29,107 | Baccalaureate |
College of the Holy Cross | 87% | 17.6% | 3,126 | $36,868 | Baccalaureate |
Franklin and Marshall College | 84% | 28.2% | 1,808 | $39,061 | Baccalaureate |
Hamilton College | 91% | 13.6% | 2,031 | $28,314 | Baccalaureate |
Miami University-Oxford | 80% | 75.4% | 18,838 | $27,662 | R2 Research |
Skidmore College | 83% | 21.1% | 2,704 | $34,581 | Baccalaureate |
St. Mary's College of Maryland | 70% | 68.6% | 1,630 | $18,362 | Baccalaureate |
The College of New Jersey | 86% | 62.3% | 8,141 | $25,458 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Truman State University | 69% | 83.8% | 3,664 | $12,030 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Union College | 80% | 43.9% | 2,065 | $36,000 | Baccalaureate |
Vassar College | 91% | 18.6% | 2,462 | $38,182 | Baccalaureate |
William & Mary | 89% | 34.1% | 9,818 | $22,529 | R2 Research |
| Peer group median | 84% | 31.5% | 3,126 | $29,107 |
SUNY College at Geneseo Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The primary mission of the Office of Institutional Research is to serve as a resource in evidence-based planning, policy formation and decision making. The office supports a continuous improvement model using assessment of the college’s academic programs and administrative services while simultaneously satisfying external accreditors, state and federal agencies and external marketing sources.
Visit IR office page- Matthew PastizzoDirector for Institutional Research & Effectiveness
- Mariann GeorgeData Analyst
Reports & documents (4)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
- DashboardDashboardgeneseo.edu
- DFR reportIPEDS Data Feedback Report 20242024nces.ed.gov
- FactbookFactbookThe webpage for SUNY College at Geneseo’s Office of Institutional Research seems to be unavailable. It seems the link intended to carry a specific page information is faulty, leading to a non-existing page error. The page includes various quick links and sections about the institution, such as 'Academics', 'Admissions', 'Campus Life', and relevant policies like 'Title IX' and 'Anti-Hazing'.geneseo.edu
- GlossaryGlossary of Terms - SUNY GeneseoThe Glossary of Terms at SUNY Geneseo provides definitions related to well-being and health promotion, sourced from international health organizations and associations. These definitions emphasize well-being and health as resources for life, focus on individual and community aspects of well-being, and describe wellness as the pursuit of a balanced lifestyle.geneseo.edu
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