Barnard College

2025-26

The 2025-26 Common Data Set for Barnard College — admissions, cost, and aid, as the school published them. Download the original file. See the school's page for these reports. File date from the archived file's embedded modification date: Jun 18, 2026. Subscribe via RSS.

In its 2025-26 report, Barnard College says 10,426 first-year students applied and 1,048 were admitted, an acceptance rate of 10%. 702 admitted students enrolled (67% yield). Enrolled students who sent scores had a middle-50% SAT of 1480–1540 and ACT of 32–35. Early decision: 476 of 1,437 applicants admitted (33%). Waitlist: 2,173 offered a spot, 1,644 accepted one, and 150 admitted from it. Compared with 2024-25, applications fell 12% (11,836 to 10,426) and the acceptance rate went from 8.8% to 10%.

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§ Admission rounds

How the class gets assembled.

Early Decision offeredNo Early Action reported
Likely ED share of class68%476 ED admits / 702 enrolled first-years
ED admit-rate multiple5.2x33% ED vs 6% all other rounds
Seats left after ED226of 702 enrolled first-year seats
All-other admit rate6%572 admitted from 8,989 applicants
§ Adjusted admission flow

Applicants, admits, and class seats use separate stage scales so Early Decision and all other rounds stay readable.

Each column is scaled within that stage. Labels show exact counts.

Early Decision
Applicants1,437reported count
Admits47633%
Class seats476assumes ED admits enroll
All other rounds
Applicants8,989reported count
Admits5726%
Class seats22640% estimated yield
Exact admission data
Admission flow data
PathApplicantsAdmittedAdmit rateClass seatsNote
Early Decision1,43747633%476Likely class seats assume ED admits enroll.
All other rounds8,9895726%226All other rounds are residual CDS totals, not exact Regular Decision.
Class-seat estimate assumes ED admits enroll. CDS does not report confirmed ED enrollment, so likely ED class seats are calculated as the smaller of ED admits and enrolled first-years.
Overall yield: 67%. Published yield blends high-commitment ED admits with the rest of the admitted pool.
Read the ED rate carefully. Published ED rates can include recruited athletes, legacy applicants, and institutional-priority applicants. The general-pool ED rate can be lower.
§ Wait list attrition

76% joined after being offered a spot. 9% of students who joined were admitted. 21% of applicants were offered the wait list.

Exact wait-list data
Wait-list data
MetricValue
Offered a wait-list spot2,173
Accepted a wait-list spot1,644
Admitted from wait list150
Joined after being offered76%
Admitted after joining9%

Wait-list outcomes can change sharply year to year.

§ Application cost

Application fee: $75. Fee waivers are reported as available.

§ SOURCE: COMMON DATA SET 2025-26 · §C.21 §C.22 §C.2 §C.7 §C.13METHOD →ARCHIVED SOURCE →
§ Federal outcomes

Federal outcomes

Federal data from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard, vintage 2022-23. Outcomes reflect earlier cohorts than the CDS year shown elsewhere on this page.

Median earnings
$80,516
10 yrs after enrollment
Graduation rate
93%
6-year completion
Average net price
$28,800
sticker minus grants
Median debt at grad.
$18,000
federal loans only
Nonpayment
4%
FSA · as-of late May 2026 · not the official cohort default rate

Nonpayment is the share of Direct Loan borrowers who entered repayment January 2020–May 2025 and were 90+ days delinquent at the FSA pull. It is not the official cohort default rate.

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