SUNY Old Westbury
About
SUNY Old Westbury is a public liberal arts college located in Long Island, New York. The institution was established in 1965 and has an enrollment of approximately 4,948 students, offering 45 undergraduate majors and 16 graduate degree programs, with a notable focus on academic excellence and intercultural understanding.
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 8.0-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 44 Title IV programs, 22 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 22 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing22 · 50.0%
- No Data22 · 50.0%
- 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 · 3
- Aug 2024Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Education for Public Health · Public Health Programs (PHPB) — Baccalaureate only level programs offered outside a school of public health
- Jun 2022Renewal of AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Jun 2021Renewal of AccreditationMiddle 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, 2,440 students received $13.8M in Pell grants, alongside $10.3M 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 1,000 borrowers who entered repayment, 23 (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 SUNY Old Westbury
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 · 8
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 campus10
Includes 7 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- Race1
- Religion1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Data quality: 5 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 Old Westbury vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions SUNY Old Westbury 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 Old Westbury | 45% | — | 4,709 | $9,900 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt | 49% | 98.2% | 6,237 | $13,167 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
College of Staten Island CUNY | 46% | 92.3% | 11,033 | $5,115 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | 72% | 47.5% | 20,081 | $2,978 | 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 John Jay College of Criminal Justice | 56% | 57.1% | 13,763 | $3,046 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY Lehman College | 51% | 56.6% | 13,324 | $3,482 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY Queens College | 53% | 64.3% | 15,965 | $3,830 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
CUNY York College | 32% | 64.1% | 6,174 | $4,734 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Delta State University | 48% | 100.0% | 2,654 | $13,778 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Empire State University | 36% | 81.1% | 10,469 | $11,147 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Georgia Southwestern State University | 41% | 75.2% | 3,700 | $12,052 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Morehouse College | 59% | 44.0% | 2,847 | $35,949 | Baccalaureate |
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 |
State University of New York at Oswego | 60% | 80.5% | 6,715 | $17,231 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
SUNY at Fredonia | 50% | 77.7% | 3,179 | $15,644 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
SUNY at Purchase College | 63% | 74.0% | 3,333 | $19,067 | Baccalaureate |
SUNY Brockport | 55% | 70.7% | 7,482 | $15,844 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger 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 |
The Evergreen State College | 41% | 96.4% | 2,490 | $22,585 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
University of South Carolina-Upstate | 43% | 67.3% | 4,916 | $13,725 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 53% | 68.4% | 6,237 | $13,725 |
SUNY Old Westbury Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The Office of Institutional Effectiveness provides and maintains authoritative campus data, offering data analysis and reporting to the University, SUNY System Administration, government agencies, and external publications.
Visit IR office page- Shanthi KonkothDirector of Institutional Effectiveness
- Jacob HellerAssistant Vice President for Institutional Research and Assessment
Reports & documents (2)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
- DFR reportIPEDS Data Feedback Report 20242024nces.ed.gov
- Strategic planOwning Our Future Through Community, Excellence, Impact and Distinction: The Strategic Plan 2026-20312026The SUNY Old Westbury Strategic Plan for 2026-2031 aims to establish the university as a center for academic excellence, innovation, inclusion, and sustainability. With a vision to become a premiere cosmopolitan public liberal arts university, the plan focuses on enhancing curriculum, research, and student experiences. Key priorities include launching new academic programs, increasing international engagement, and achieving financial sustainability while adhering to the values of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.oldwestbury.edu
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