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SUNY Potsdam Data & Information Overview

14 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
81% Acceptance Rate
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How Well Is SUNY Potsdam Ranked?

#1,625 Best Colleges in Nation
#103 Best Colleges in NY
Teacher Education Subject Specific Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.

SUNY Potsdam was awarded 14 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is teacher education subject specific.

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Overall Quality

College Factual ranked SUNY Potsdam as #1,625 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list.

SUNY Potsdam is also ranked #103 out of 142 schools in New York.

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Is It Hard to Get Into SUNY Potsdam?

81% Acceptance Rate
61% Of Accepted Are Women

Acceptance Rate

When it comes to admittance, SUNY Potsdam is somewhat selective. Its acceptance rate is 81%, which means you'll face some strong competition during the admissions process. Do what you can to make your application stand out.

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SUNY Potsdam Faculty

10 to 1 Student to Faculty
74% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

At SUNY Potsdam, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 10 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.

The full-time faculty percentage at SUNY Potsdam is 74%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  74 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at SUNY Potsdam

67% Freshmen Retention
45% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at SUNY Potsdam is 67%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.

Freshmen Retention Rate  67 out of 100
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Graduation Rate

Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At SUNY Potsdam the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 45%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%

On-Time Graduation Rate  45 out of 100
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SUNY Potsdam Undergraduate Student Diversity

2,705 Full-Time Undergraduates
30.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
63.7% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,842 undergraduates at SUNY Potsdam with 2,705 being full-time and 137 being part-time.

How Much Does SUNY Potsdam Cost?

$14,175 Net Price
72% Take Out Loans
$27,376 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of SUNY Potsdam is $14,175. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for SUNY Potsdam

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$9,374 $12,367 $16,245 $16,152 $19,605

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of SUNY Potsdam, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At SUNY Potsdam, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $6,844 a year. That adds up to $27,376 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at SUNY Potsdam is 6.7%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

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How Much Money Do SUNY Potsdam Graduates Make?

$45,987 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from SUNY Potsdam make around $45,987 per year during the early years of their employment. This is good news for future SUNY Potsdam graduates since it is 8% more than the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year.

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Location of SUNY Potsdam

New York State
2,705 Full-Time Undergraduates
Town Campus Setting
SUNY Potsdam is a public institution located in Potsdam, New York. The surrounding location of Potsdam is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

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Contact details for SUNY Potsdam are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 44 Pierrepont Ave, Potsdam, NY 13676-2294
Phone: 315-267-2000
Website: www.potsdam.edu/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SUNYPotsdam
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SUNYPotsdam1816

SUNY Potsdam Majors

48 Majors With Completions
693 Undergraduate Degrees
123 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 48 majors graduated from SUNY Potsdam. Of these students, 693 received undergraduate degrees and 123 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Teacher Education Subject Specific 86 $36,353
Business Administration & Management 59 $35,008
General Psychology 58 $24,369
Teacher Education Grade Specific 58 $42,078
Criminal Justice & Corrections 44 $30,690
Music 39 $20,855
Communication & Media Studies 37 $29,152
General Biology 36 $24,842
Public Health 25 NA
Sociology 21 $31,523

Learn more about the majors offered at SUNY Potsdam along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at SUNY Potsdam

35% Take At Least One Class Online
6% Take All Classes Online

Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.

In 2020-2021, 916 students took at least one online class at SUNY Potsdam. This is a decrease from the 2,964 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 916 154
2019-2020 2,964 746
2018-2019 191 32
2017-2018 101 13
2016-2017 151 13

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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