Jamestown Business College
Jamestown, NY · For-profit · Town (distant) · JBC
For-profit institution in Jamestown, NY · 251 undergraduates · 86% acceptance rate · $34,976 median earnings 10 years after entry.
- Top 6%Pell Grant share
- Top 10%Average net price
- Top 16%Median graduate debt
- Top 17%Cost of attendance
Stats
College Scorecard figures, each with where this school sits nationally among institutions that report the same measure. A dash means the school does not report it.
Cost
- Average net price
- $7,732206th cheapest of 1,985 reporting
- In-state tuition & fees
- $12,945836th cheapest of 2,042 reporting
- Out-of-state tuition & fees
- $12,945445th cheapest of 2,042 reporting
- Cost of attendance
- $19,567347th cheapest of 1,985 reporting
- Median graduate debt
- $14,800305th lowest of 1,880 reporting
Outcomes
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $34,9761,800th highest of 1,969 reporting
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $27,9621,800th highest of 1,964 reporting
- Graduation rate (4-year)
- 60.5%758th highest of 2,031 reporting
- Full-time retention
- —
Admissions
- Acceptance rate
- 85.8%1,102nd most selective of 1,608 reporting
- Average SAT
- —
- Median ACT
- —
Campus
- Undergraduates
- 2511,837th largest of 2,162 reporting
- Student-faculty ratio
- 50.0:12,156th smallest of 2,159 reporting
- Pell Grant share
- 68.6%129th highest of 2,140 reporting
Nearest large-hub airport: 210 mi (DTW)
List appearances
This school doesn’t place in the top slice of any of our 111 lists. Most lists are Top 25–50, so absence here is common and says little on its own.
Best-paying fields of study
Median earnings one and two years after graduating, by field. Showing 1 of 1 reported programs.
| Field | Level | 1 yr | 2 yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and OperationsBusiness | bachelors | $30,119 | $28,598 |
Campus facts
- Founded in 1886source
Key links
- Official websitejbc.edu
- College ScorecardFederal source for every figure above (UNITID 192004)
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