Pace University
New York, NY
Pace University is a private university in New York, a large city, with 7,665 undergraduates. The arts and communication are its signature fields: together they make up 25% of its bachelor's degrees, two and a half times their share across the colleges we cover. 60% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $70,378 ten years after starting.
Pace University admitted 21,961 of 28,469 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (77.1%).
- Acceptance rate
- 77.1%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $53,290
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $30,892
- Average, students with aid
- SAT, middle 50%
- 1150–1310
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Pace University is known for
Measured by the 1,737 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
The arts
14.8%
of its bachelor's degrees: about three times the 4.9% share across the colleges we cover.
Communication
10.2%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 4.5% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing21812.6% of degrees$115,695+30% vs $88,910 nationally
- Communication and Media Studies925.3% of degrees$69,876+24% vs $56,359 nationally
- Business Administration, Management and Operations925.3% of degrees$76,974+13% vs $68,257 nationally
- Finance and Financial Management Services895.1% of degrees$92,271+11% vs $83,343 nationally
- Accounting and Related Services784.5% of degrees$100,797+32% vs $76,194 nationally
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts774.4% of degrees$52,368+20% vs $43,765 nationally
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Large city
New York, NY
Undergraduates
7,665
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Doctoral and professional university
Living on campus
A quarter to half
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
14 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
6%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Pace University
Three things Pace University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
56 admitted from a waitlist of 1,085.
A waitlist offer here is not a near-miss anyone can plan around.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
18% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.
The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 4% sent an ACT. Pace University files test scores under “considered”.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Families paid $30,892 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
77.1%
21,961 admitted of 28,469 applicants
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
1150–1310
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
24–29
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Average GPA of admitted students
3.30
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an SAT
18%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Enrolled students who sent an ACT
4%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Pace University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Pace University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $53,290, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $69,550. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $30,892 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$53,290
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$69,550
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$30,892
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $69,550 full cost.
- Under $30k$26,473Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$26,362Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$28,467Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$31,219Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$36,430Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
60%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
76%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$70,378
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$23,250
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
What Pace University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The early round, in counts
Two published rates side by side. Early applicants are a different group of students, so the gap is a fact about those pools, not a lever anyone can pull.
Early Action
1.2× the rateEarly Action admitted 86.5% (9,217 of 10,656), against 71.5% in the non-early rounds.
12,693 of 17,759 in the comparison pool.
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
The waitlist, as the school reported it
Published counts, including the ones schools rarely lead with.
- Offered a waitlist place
- 1,085
- Admitted from the waitlist
- 56
Source: their Common Data Set, fall 2023
Essays on this application
1 essay prompt on the application: 1 is not yet confirmed.
A prompt we have not yet confirmed is counted on its own rather than called optional, treating an unconfirmed prompt as optional is how a student skips an essay their college expects.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in New York
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Clarkson University77.2%
- Adelphi University77.5%
- Roberts Wesleyan University77.8%
- Russell Sage College76.2%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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