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Brooklyn College · New York

Brooklyn College Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College rewards high-achieving students through selective merit awards, with Macaulay Honors as a flagship pathway.

Rules that bite at Brooklyn College

The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Brooklyn College's own published policy, not generic advice.

capHard $6,930 cost-of-attendance ceiling
Institutional aid at Brooklyn College cannot push the package past $6,930. Big outside wins can mathematically reduce institutional grant once the ceiling is reached.

Who this school is for

If you're a motivated student seeking a strong public college education with honors program benefits, Brooklyn College's merit awards are worth exploring.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $6,930 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

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

Average annual net price by family income at Brooklyn College, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$1,029
$30,001–$48,000	$2,287
$48,001–$75,000	$6,193
$75,001–$110,000	$8,917
$110,001+	$12,254
All income levels (average)	$3,103

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $7,452
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $15,402
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $3,103

That works out to roughly a 78% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $14,151 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Brooklyn College is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 54%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 80%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $11,000 (~$117/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $60,752
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 69%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 3%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Brooklyn College'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 Brooklyn College'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.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

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Outside scholarship stacking policy

Outside scholarships only trigger an aid adjustment if total aid would exceed the cost of attendance (or the student's aid eligibility cap); below that ceiling, awards are not displaced.

Outside scholarships only trigger an aid adjustment if total aid would exceed the cost of attendance (or the student's aid eligibility cap); below that ceiling, awards are not displaced.

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Lesser-known scholarships at Brooklyn College

Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.

Presidential Scholarship

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityMacaulay Honors students may receive a Presidential Scholarship, but not both Macaulay funding and a Presidential Scholarship.

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Brooklyn College merit aid FAQ

What is the deadline for Scholars Program Scholarship?
The Scholars Program application deadline is December 16, 2025.
What is the deadline for B A M D Program Scholarship?
The B.A.-M.D. application deadline is December 16, 2025.

How Brooklyn College compares across our verified dataset

241 of 750 verified schools in our dataset use cost-of-attendance cap displacement.
Brooklyn College is in a recognizable cluster (241 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.

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