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Common Data Set 2024-2025

Barnard College

NY · Private (nonprofit) · ~3,300 undergraduates

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Acceptance rate · 2024-2025
8.8%

Barnard College's admit rate has fallen 11.7 percentage points across the 12 reported years on file.

SAT · 50th
1510
Range 1480–1540
6-yr grad
92.9%
Retention 96.6%
Undergrads
3,269
10:1 student-faculty
Drawn directly from Barnard College's officially-published 2024-2025 Common Data Set.
Barnard College Admission

At a glance

The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.

Admit rate8.8% SAT (50th)1,510 ACT (50th)34 Undergraduates3,269 6-yr graduation92.9% Retention96.6% Tuition (FT)$69,888 Student–faculty ratio10:1

Recent years

Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.

YearAdmit rateEnrolled6-yr gradRetentionSAT (50th)
2024-20258.8%71892.9%96.6%1,510
2023-20248.0%71192.9%96.7%1,500
2022-20238.8%698—96.0%1,490
2021-202211.5%76992.8%97.5%—
2020-202113.6%69090.0%92.6%—

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What the data says about Barnard College

Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.

01

Highly selective — top tier of CDS Atlas schools.

Barnard College's 8.8% admit rate places it among 50 of 334 covered schools admitting below 15% (~15.0% of the index).

02

Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 37 percentage points.

Barnard College's 92.9% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 36.6 pp.

03

First-year retention is among the highest in the index.

Barnard College's 96.6% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 19.8 pp — a strong signal of student-institution fit at intake.

Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →

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Methodology

The Common Data Set is a standardized reporting form U.S. colleges file annually — sections A through J covering admissions selectivity, enrollment, aid, faculty resources, and outcomes. CollegeNumbers extracts every value directly from each school's officially published CDS PDF, xlsx, docx, or HTML, then normalizes into a unified schema.

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