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Highest earning psychology programs in New York

New York psychology programs, ranked by median earnings one year after completion, from the College Scorecard field-of-study file (September 18, 2026). Only programs with at least 30 counted graduates in the earnings sample are shown, and at least 5 programs must qualify for this list to exist.

RankSchoolCitySectorMedian earnings, 1 year afterGraduates counted
1CUNY Graduate School and University CenterNew YorkPublic, 4-year$48,29947
2Excelsior UniversityAlbanyPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$43,57435
3CUNY Medgar Evers CollegeBrooklynPublic, 4-year$39,868171
4Empire State UniversitySaratoga SpringsPublic, 4-year$39,18890
5Touro UniversityNew YorkPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$38,918200
6CUNY York CollegeJamaicaPublic, 4-year$38,701224
7Hobart William Smith CollegesGenevaPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$38,11742
8Russell Sage CollegeTroyPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$37,82131
9St Lawrence UniversityCantonPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$37,06865
10CUNY Lehman CollegeBronxPublic, 4-year$36,913295
11Cornell UniversityIthacaPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$36,63054
12Le Moyne CollegeSyracusePrivate nonprofit, 4-year$35,62490
13St. John Fisher UniversityRochesterPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$35,26636
14CUNY Bernard M Baruch CollegeNew YorkPublic, 4-year$35,149122
15SUNY Polytechnic InstituteUticaPublic, 4-year$34,76431
16Syracuse UniversitySyracusePrivate nonprofit, 4-year$34,654229
17Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochesterPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$34,31830
18Marist UniversityPoughkeepsiePrivate nonprofit, 4-year$33,49164
19Iona UniversityNew RochellePrivate nonprofit, 4-year$33,02338
20SUNY Buffalo State UniversityBuffaloPublic, 4-year$32,99498
21SUNY OneontaOneontaPublic, 4-year$32,845172
22Mercy UniversityDobbs FerryPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$32,505141
23Nazareth UniversityRochesterPrivate nonprofit, 4-year$32,37541
24Stony Brook UniversityStony BrookPublic, 4-year$32,306316
25State University of New York at CortlandCortlandPublic, 4-year$32,15984

Earnings cover federally aided graduates only, as published by College Scorecard.

How to read this. A smaller program can show a high or low figure from just a few graduates, and this earnings figure only ever covers students who received federal aid, so it does not describe every graduate.