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Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $695,560 ahead with aid, $583,644 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Economics ($120,303); Accounting and Related Services ($110,586); Finance and Financial Management Services ($106,663).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 2% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 63% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Fairfield University: 50, 157 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Academy-Notre Dame De Namur (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Trinity Hall (3.2 per class year, 16 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022-2026); Regis High School (NYC) (3.0 per class year, 3 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/fairfield-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Fairfield University: 9, 29 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Oratory Preparatory School (12.0 per class year, 12 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Archbishop Mitty High School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Staten Island Academy (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, College Acceptances 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/fairfield-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/fairfield-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":33302},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":35155},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":26953},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":44077}],"full_price":76074,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":48095,"npc_url":"https://npc.collegeboard.org/app/fairfield","tuition_in_state":58350,"tuition_out_of_state":58350},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":88794,"median_6yr_after_entry":73693},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":29,"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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