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Briar Cliff University

IA · Private nonprofit · Small city

~$23,907/yr avg with aid
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ℹ️ A note about this profile

Briar Cliff University doesn't publish standardized-test bands or admit-rate data to IPEDS. That usually means the institution is open-admission (no selectivity gate), graduate-focused, or small enough that the federal survey suppresses the numbers. What we do have below: published tuition, average net price, enrollment, degrees awarded by major. If you had a different, more selective institution in mind, the search at the top of the page will find it.

Parent/student verdict

Selectivity unknown

Comprehensive 4-year institution.

Best for

  • Students drawn to Biological & Biomedical Sciences or Health Professions (the two biggest majors)
  • Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience

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Institutional snapshot

What kind of college is this?

Carnegie classification
Doctoral/Professional Universities
Undergraduates
624
Under 1,000 including graduate students
TuitionThe published full price before any aid. Families who don't qualify for need-based aid at a given college pay this, minus any merit scholarships — whether you qualify depends on the college's price and policies, not on any fixed income line.
$36,956
flat rate (no in/out-of-state split) · 2023–24 federal figure

Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.

The real cost

What Briar Cliff University actually costs

If you qualify for need aidGrant money based on your family's finances (via FAFSA and the college's own forms), not your student's stats.
$23,907/yr
average among aid-receiving families, all incomes — your number depends on your finances
If you don't
This college's full cost of attendance isn't in the federal file — its own calculator below shows it.

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Source: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.

What students study here

Most popular majors at Briar Cliff University

Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what Briar Cliff University actually graduates — not just what it markets.

1. Biological & Biomedical Sciences
22 degrees · 27.2%
Many bio majors → med school / grad school. Direct-employment bio roles are lower-paid than that pipeline.
2. Health Professions
21 degrees · 25.9%
Highest-paying group on this list, but most careers require additional training beyond a 4-year degree.
3. Business, Management, & Marketing
18 degrees · 22.2%
Broad set of corporate roles. Finance + consulting pay top, accounting + HR pay middle, sales spread is wide.
4. Public Administration & Social Services
12 degrees · 14.8%
Government, nonprofit, social work. Mission-driven; lower wages than private sector but stable.
5. Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, & Firefighting
8 degrees · 9.9%
Public-sector careers in law enforcement, corrections, security. Strong pensions, modest base.

Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →

Student body & economic mobility

Who attends here — and what the campus adds.

Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.

Top-1% access
0.8%
from top-1% households
Mobility rateThe share of ALL students who arrived from the bottom 20% of family incomes AND reached the top 20% themselves by their early 30s — access and lift in one number, and a sign the campus itself adds earnings power.
1.0%
bottom 20% → top 20% by age 32
Upward rate
10.4%
of lower-income students who reach the top 20%

Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →

AI program signal

AI + computing education at Briar Cliff University

CS degrees (annual)
1
CIP 11.0701 + 11.0101

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At a glance

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Briar Cliff University is a private nonprofit four-year college in IA.

Cost: about $23,907 a year on average with aid.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 9% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 10% of those reached the top fifth as adults.

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