Saint Peter's University
Jersey City, NJ
Saint Peter's University is a private, Catholic university in Jersey City, New Jersey, a large city, with 2,135 undergraduates. Criminal justice is its signature field: 8% of its bachelor's degrees, three and a half times its share across the colleges we cover. 58% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $57,815 ten years after starting.
Saint Peter's University admitted 3,966 of 4,381 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (90.5%).
- Acceptance rate
- 90.5%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $42,552
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $12,199
- Average, students with aid
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 Saint Peter's University is known for
Measured by the 510 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Criminal justice
7.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: three and a half times the 2.2% share across the colleges we cover.
- Psychology6011.8% of degrees$45,623−10% vs $50,706 nationally
- Business Administration, Management and Operations5911.6% of degrees$58,634−14% vs $68,257 nationally
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing509.8% of degrees$100,199+13% vs $88,910 nationally
- Computer and Information Sciences469.0% of degrees$61,013−34% vs $92,374 nationally
- Biology458.8% of degrees$61,502+7% vs $57,214 nationally
- Criminal Justice and Corrections397.6% of degrees$56,438About the $55,378 national median
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
Jersey City, NJ
Undergraduates
2,135
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, larger programs
Living on campus
A quarter to half
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
12 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 Saint Peter's University
Three things Saint Peter's 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.
Saint Peter's University reports that test scores are not considered at all.
That is the school’s own answer on the form it fills in every year. A score you send is not read as part of the decision here.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The admit rate rose from 74% to 91% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023
Families paid $12,199 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
90.5%
3,966 admitted of 4,381 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Saint Peter's 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 Saint Peter's University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $42,552, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $50,272. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $12,199 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$42,552
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$50,272
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$12,199
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $50,272 full cost.
- Under $30k$10,783Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$10,643Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$9,952Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$13,569Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$21,829Typical 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
58%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
72%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$57,815
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$20,500
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.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate rose from 74% to 91%.
What Saint Peter's 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
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Test scores
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Essays on this application
3 essay prompts on the application: you would write all 3.
Published deadlines
Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.
- Rolling AdmissionJuly 28, 2027
More colleges on the record
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Other colleges in New Jersey
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Monmouth University89.5%
- Montclair State University89.4%
- New Jersey City University89.2%
- William Paterson University of New Jersey92.5%
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