-28%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment fell 28% at CUNY York College vs the 2018–2022 baseline (4.4k vs 6.1k).
New York · Public · Predominantly bachelor's
CUNY York College
Jamaica, New York. 4,439 undergraduate students. 56 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at CUNY York College
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at CUNY York College fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (1.5% → 0.0%).
-22%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at CUNY York College fell 22% between 2021 and 2024 (5.6k → 4.3k).
+11%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at CUNY York College rose 11% between 2017 and 2020 ($9.9k → $11.0k).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New York
Each tile compares this institution to the New York median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$56,945+23% · 6→10y
New York median $48,917$46,148
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry30.3%+65% · '97→'24
New York median 64.2%$7,500+129% · '97→'20
At program completion4,439-27% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS59.5%-16% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time59.4%-9% · '01→'24
latest cohort$7,358+124% · '00→'24
out-of-state $15,308SECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
1.8%Median federal debt $7,500 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $56,945 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+65%
CUNY York College · completion · 150% rose
19.5% → 32.3%
+192%
CUNY York College · completion · 100% rose
5.1% → 14.9%
-16%
CUNY York College · retention fell
68.0% → 57.4%
-27%
CUNY York College · undergrad enrollment fell
5,969 → 4,345
+124%
CUNY York College · in-state tuition rose
$3,292 → $7,358
+122%
CUNY York College · out-of-state tuition rose
$6,892 → $15,308
+129%
CUNY York College · median debt rose
$4,795 → $11,000
-100%
CUNY York College · cohort default rate fell
7.2% → 0.0%
+28%
CUNY York College · earnings_median_10yr rose
$44,500 → $56,945
+37%
CUNY York College · earnings_median_8yr rose
$38,300 → $52,476
+33%
CUNY York College · earnings_median_6yr rose
$34,600 → $46,148
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.$96,826Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions.$83,222Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods.$69,456Computer and Information Sciences, General.$65,162Social Work.$63,534Accounting and Related Services.$59,338Psychology, General.$56,157Computer Science.$55,731Sociology.$54,250Public Health.$54,127Marketing.$53,252Business Administration, Management and Operations.$52,751English Language and Literature, General.$49,169Journalism.$44,226
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
14 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES · CIP 11
EDUCATION · CIP 13
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE · CIP 23
PSYCHOLOGY · CIP 42
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & SOCIAL SERVICES · CIP 44
SOCIAL SCIENCES · CIP 45
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & MARKETING · CIP 52
COMMUNICATION & JOURNALISM · CIP 09
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at CUNY York College
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
$221,991
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
Year 9
First year cumulative discounted earnings cross zero
- Cost per year
- $8,080
- HS-only baseline · NY
- $40,100
- Years to complete
- 4
- CIP family
- 42
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in New York
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“CUNY York College graduates earn $X” — not “CUNY York College makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending CUNY York College caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.