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Barry University scholarships and merit aid

Barry offers multiple merit pathways for accomplished students across academics, leadership, and talent areas.

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Is Barry University worth a closer look?

Barry University may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

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Students with strong academic records or demonstrated talents in athletics, the arts, or leadership should explore Barry's range of merit awards.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $59,652 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Barry University, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Barry University, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$20,804
$30,001–$48,000	$21,485
$48,001–$75,000	$21,524
$75,001–$110,000	$25,690
$110,001+	$29,180
All income levels (average)	$22,613

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $34,350
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $22,613

That works out to roughly a 55% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $50,778 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 38%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 63%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $26,997 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $55,966
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 59%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 66%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Barry University's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Barry University's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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Other Barry University scholarships worth checking

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Barry Honors Scholarship

AmountUp to $5,000EligibilityThe Barry Honors Scholarship is available to Honors Program students for up to $5,000 per year and is guaranteed for the duration of the student's degree program if Honors Program requirements are met.

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Every claim is checked against Barry University’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceBarry University cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersBarry University Athletic Award
Scholarship pageBarry Honors Scholarship

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