Binghamton University · New York

Binghamton scholarships and merit aid

Binghamton rewards academic excellence across multiple tiers, offering substantial merit support to strong students.

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The short answer

Is Binghamton worth a closer look?

Binghamton 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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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

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Presidents Scholarship

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Deans Scholarship

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Provosts Scholarship

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Up to $30,000

Binghamton University Achievement Scholarship

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Straight from the aid office

What Binghamton's aid office says

Per the Office of Financial Aid, Binghamton University, August 2026. How we verify

GPA requirement for institutional scholarships

Is there a specific high school GPA required for Presidents/Provosts/Deans scholarships?

There is no specific high school GPA required for these institutional scholarships.

“Regarding institutional scholarships (Presidents/Provosts/Deans), there is no specific high school GPA required.”

How scholarship recipients are selected

How does the university decide who receives these scholarships?

Every admitted student is fully reviewed based on their admissions application, including academic merit, extracurriculars, essay, and other submitted information.

“Every admitted student is reviewed fully based on their admissions application, which of course includes their academic merit, plus extracurriculars, essay and any other submitted information.”

GPA required to renew scholarships

What GPA is needed to renew these scholarships each year?

Different scholarships require different GPAs to renew from year to year, ranging from 2.0 to 3.5 depending on the scholarship.

“Various scholarship will require different GPAs to renew year to year, ranging from 2.0 to 3.5, depending on the scholarship.”

Effect of outside scholarships on aid

Do outside scholarships reduce institutional aid?

The only aid affected by outside scholarships is the NYS Excelsior scholarship, which is reduced by any tuition-based scholarship.

“Regarding outside scholarships, the only affected fund would be the NYS Excelsior scholarship, which is reduced by any tuition-based scholarship.”

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Who this school may work for

High-achieving students with solid academic records who want a top-tier public university experience will find competitive merit opportunities here.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $32,746 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at Binghamton, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$12,171
$30,001–$48,000	$15,281
$48,001–$75,000	$20,347
$75,001–$110,000	$23,533
$110,001+	$28,475
All income levels (average)	$21,620

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $10,567
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $30,447
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $21,620

That works out to roughly a 29% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $30,345 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Binghamton 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: 82%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 89%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $18,500 (~$196/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $80,596
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 28%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 46%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Binghamton'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 Binghamton'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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How Binghamton compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Binghamton is one of them. The cohort minority (84 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.

Sources used on this page

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

Cost of attendanceBinghamton cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersPresidents Scholarship

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