Culinary Institute of America

Hyde Park, NY · Private · 3,011 undergrads · website ↗

Test-optional
$50 application fee

Does anyone get out?

The point of starting here is finishing somewhere else. This is how often that happens.

11.7%

of students transfer to a four-year institution

Completed after transferring: 1.6%
Still enrolled after transferring: 2.4%

What it costs

Household income	Avg net price / year
Under $30,000	$29,690
$30,000 – $48,000	$29,527
$48,000 – $75,000	$34,603
$75,000 – $110,000	$38,087
Over $110,000	$41,789
All incomes (average)	$36,113

Sticker tuition and fees: $39,850 in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.

These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Culinary Institute of America's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.

Net price calculator ↗

Other costs of attendance, 2025–26

The college's own estimate for a full-time undergraduate for the year, before aid, from the October 2026 College Scorecard. It is a newer year than the tuition and net prices above, so don't add the two together.

Housing and meals, on campus	$15,640
Housing and meals, off campus (not with family)	$19,500
Books and supplies	$1,000
Other expenses, on campus	$6,370
Other expenses, off campus	$7,110

Outcomes

Completion rate: 63%
Students with Pell grants: 29%
Earnings @ 10yr: $47,475
Median debt: $15,750

Admission and teaching

SAT/ACT policy: Test-optional
Application fee: $50
Students per faculty member: 18 to 1
Faculty who are full-time: 100%
Open admission: No

Middle 50% of test scores, fall 2024

25th to 75th percentile of enrolled first-year students who submitted scores. A quarter scored below the first figure and a quarter above the second. Section ranges can't be added together into a total-score range.

SAT Reading and Writing: 478–600
SAT Math: 450–583
ACT composite: 17–23

What students study

Business24%

Earnings and debt by field of study

Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.

Associate degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Culinary Arts and Related Services	643	$39,688	$48,317national $39,605	$12,000

Bachelor's degrees (3)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Hospitality Administration/Management	221	$48,434	$58,165national $56,726	$25,825
Culinary Arts and Related Services	94	$48,130	$61,944national $47,668	$22,875
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other	43	—	$48,525national $55,693	$25,500

Master's degrees (1)

Field of study	Degrees awarded 2023–24	Earnings, 1 yr after	Earnings, 4 yrs after	Median federal debt
Hospitality Administration/Management	51	$95,479	—national $74,856	$42,750

A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 1 more programme at this college has every figure suppressed and is not listed. These figures are calculated for all 3 campuses that share this college's federal student-aid ID, so a branch campus shows its institution's figures.

Best transfer rates elsewhere in NY

Beth Medrash Meor YitzchokMonsey79.3%Maria College of AlbanyAlbany40%SUNY MorrisvilleMorrisville31.3%Yeshivath Zichron MosheSouth Fallsburg30%Trocaire CollegeBuffalo29.6%SUNY College of Technology at DelhiDelhi28.2%

Contact and accreditation

Address: 1946 Campus Drive, Hyde Park, NY 12538-1499
Phone: (845) 452-9600
Institutional accreditor: Middle States Commission on Higher Education

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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Transfer rate is the share of entrants transferring to a four-year institution; it is published for roughly a third of community colleges, and a blank means unpublished rather than zero. Which specific credits transfer is set by agreements between individual institutions and is not published nationally — confirm with both colleges before enrolling.

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