Brooklyn College Overview

Brooklyn College is a public institution located in Brooklyn, New York. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

What Is Brooklyn College Known For?

• The 5% student loan default rate at Brooklyn College is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the post-master's certificate is the highest award a student can attain at Brooklyn College.
• In 2017-2018, 38% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College makes roughly $43,900 a year. This is 8% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Brooklyn College Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Brooklyn College.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#10	Best Value Ethnic Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#12	Best Value Ethnic, Culture & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#20	Best Value Journalism Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#30	Best Value Film, Video & Photographic Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#39	Best Value Teacher Education Subject Specific Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#44	Best Educational Administration Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#47	Best Special Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#53	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#110	Best Value Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#146	Best Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Brooklyn College has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#1	Best Other Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#38	Best Special Education Schools	College Factual
#55	Best Family, Consumer & Human Sciences Schools	College Factual
#68	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Schools	College Factual
#140	Best Teaching Master’s Degree Schools	Teaching Degree Search
#170	Best Education Schools	College Factual

Where Is Brooklyn College?

Contact details for Brooklyn College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210
Phone:	718-951-5000
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brooklyn-College/111090580325
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/bklyncollege411

How Do I Get Into Brooklyn College?

You can apply to Brooklyn College online at: www2.cuny.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/

Admission Requirements for Brooklyn College

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	considered but not required
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Brooklyn College?

Brooklyn College has a fairly low acceptance rate of 50%, which makes it more selective than most schools. Take time to make sure you submit all the requested materials and you prepare the application in full. You don't want to get denied right off the bat due to an incomplete application!

Approximately 42% of accepted students are men and 58% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 47%, and the acceptance rate for women is 52%.

Average Test Scores

About 97% of students accepted to Brooklyn College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 500 and 580. Math scores were between 520 and 600.

Brooklyn College received ACT scores from 3% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 21 and 32. Math scores were between 21 and 28. Composite scores were between 22 and 29.

Can I Afford Brooklyn College?

Student Loan Debt

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Brooklyn College, approximately 5% of students took out student loans averaging $5,745 a year. That adds up to $22,980 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Brooklyn College is 5.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Brooklyn College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 14,969 undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, with 11,401 being full-time and 3,568 being part-time.

There are also 2,766 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 11,401 full-time undergraduates at Brooklyn College, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Brooklyn College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	2,811
Black or African American	2,112
Hispanic or Latino	2,689
White	3,074
International Students	313
Other Races/Ethnicities	402

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Brooklyn College. At this time, 17 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 170 countries are represented at Brooklyn College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, South Korea, and India.

Online Learning at Brooklyn College

In 2019-2020, 17,723 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Brooklyn College has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 106th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of Brooklyn College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Brooklyn College was 7,972.0%. This is the #34 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Brooklyn College regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of Brooklyn College majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Education	1%
Special Education	12%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Brooklyn College ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Brooklyn College.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Special Education	#4
Education	#7

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Brooklyn College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	466	0	78	544
General Psychology	522	0	0	522
Teacher Education Grade Specific	207	0	96	303
Accounting	269	0	11	280
Teacher Education Subject Specific	73	13	138	224
Special Education	0	6	171	177
Computer Information Systems	152	0	0	152
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	101	0	24	125
General Biology	120	0	1	121
Communication Sciences	80	0	35	115
Finance & Financial Management	104	0	0	104
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	103	0	0	103
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	39	59	98
Ethnic Studies	91	0	0	91
Health & Physical Education	55	0	25	80
General English Literature	71	0	8	79
Political Science & Government	56	0	9	65
Communication & Media Studies	60	0	4	64
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	58	0	2	60
Information Science	40	0	16	56
Writing Studies	28	0	25	53
Educational Administration	0	0	52	52
Fine & Studio Arts	46	0	0	46
Music	13	2	26	41
Journalism	39	0	0	39
Chemistry	37	0	1	38
Drama & Theater Arts	21	0	17	38
Student Counseling	0	5	32	37
History	29	0	5	34
Mental & Social Health Services	0	0	31	31
Geological & Earth Sciences	15	0	16	31
Sociology	26	0	3	29
Philosophy	27	0	0	27
Mathematics	25	0	0	25
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	0	0	23	23
Computer Science	3	0	18	21
Economics	17	0	0	17
Romance Languages	9	0	3	12
Applied Mathematics	12	0	0	12
Public Health	0	0	10	10
Child Development & Psychology	0	0	10	10
Sustainability Science	9	0	0	9
Anthropology	8	0	0	8
Multilingual Education	0	7	0	7
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	7	0	0	7
Medical Illustration & Informatics	0	0	7	7
Physics	7	0	0	7
Computer Software & Applications	6	0	0	6
General Visual & Performing Arts	0	0	5	5
Other Health Professions	4	0	0	4
Thanatology	0	3	0	3
Religious Studies	3	0	0	3
Classical Languages & Literature	2	0	0	2
Natural Resources Conservation	1	0	0	1
Other Social Sciences	1	0	0	1
Publishing	0	0	0	0
Computer Programming	0	0	0	0
Data Processing	0	0	0	0
Other Education	0	0	0	0
Area Studies	0	0	0	0
Germanic Languages	0	0	0	0
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	0	0	0	0
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	0	0	0	0
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	0	0	0
Gerontology	0	0	0	0
Archeology	0	0	0	0
Urban Studies	0	0	0	0
Dance	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	3,023	75	961	4,059

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Gabriel Liendo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.