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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $605,928 ahead with aid, $469,468 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Finance and Financial Management Services ($134,332); Accounting and Related Services ($119,020); Computer Science ($117,293).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 36% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name American University: 104, 221 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Bullis School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Marlborough School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Regis High School (NYC) (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2022\u20132025, counted column \"Class of '25\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/american-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming American University: 10, 54 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); St Andrews School Of Boca Raton Inc (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); The TASIS School in Dorado (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/american-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/american-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":23233},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":20444},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":26035},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":30063}],"full_price":76058,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":41943,"npc_url":"https://www.american.edu/financialaid/Net-Price-Calculator-Form.cfm","tuition_in_state":58771,"tuition_out_of_state":58771},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":77370,"median_6yr_after_entry":61328},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":54,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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