State University of New York at Oswego · New York

SUNY Oswego scholarships and merit aid

SUNY Oswego offers multiple merit tiers for first-year and transfer students, including online-specific awards.

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The short answer

Is SUNY Oswego worth a closer look?

SUNY Oswego 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.

$9,000

Destination Oswego Scholarship

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Full tuition

Nys Stem Incentive Program Scholarship

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$1,000

Transfer Merit Scholarships

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GPA: 3

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$4,000

Go Oswego Awards

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Amount not published

Merit Scholarship

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$6,000

Presidential Scholarship

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Amount not published

First Year Online Merit Scholarships

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$2,500

Deans Scholarship

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$1,500

Transfer Achievement Scholarships

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GPA: 3.5

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Amount not published

First Year Online Horizon Scholarships

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Who this school may work for

Strong academic performers entering as freshmen or transfers should explore the full range of scholarships, with dedicated awards for online learners and STEM-focused students.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $26,673 for 2026-2027. Source

Cost and graduation facts

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

Average annual net price by family income at SUNY Oswego, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$8,714
$30,001–$48,000	$11,681
$48,001–$75,000	$17,412
$75,001–$110,000	$19,053
$110,001+	$23,087
All income levels (average)	$16,236

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $8,825
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $18,735
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $16,236

That works out to roughly a 40% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $27,052 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

SUNY Oswego 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: 60%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 70%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $20,880 (~$221/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $57,566
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 45%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 60%

How to read these numbers

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

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
SUNY Oswego 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 SUNY Oswego’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceSUNY Oswego cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersDestination Oswego Scholarship

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