Utica University

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#6432 / #1695
Global Influence / U.S. Influence
#837
Most Desirable School
Private university in New York state, United States

Utica University at a Glance

U.S. influence rank
#1695
Acceptance rate (fall 2024)
92%
Tuition and fees (2025–26)
$28,480
Graduation rate
54%
Undergraduates (fall 2024)
2,278

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Utica University Featured Rankings

About Utica University

According to Wikipedia, Utica University is a private university in Utica, New York. The university has a main campus in Utica, as well as the Robert Brvenik Center for Business Education in Downtown Utica, and satellite locations in Syracuse, New York, Latham, New York, and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Utica University's Online Degrees

Advanced Certificate in Advanced Studies – Regulatory and Compliance
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Advanced Certificate in Organizational Risk Assessment and Management
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
BBA in Business Administration
  • Required Credits: 120
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
MBA in Business Administration
Degree Concentrations
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Analytics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Finance/Accounting
  • Health Care Management
  • Insurance and Risk Management
  • Economic Crime and Fraud Management
  • Required Credits: 30
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
MS in Accounting
  • Required Credits: 30
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
MS in Data Science
Degree Concentrations
  • Business Analytics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Financial Crime
  • Social Science Analytics
  • Required Credits: 30
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
Advanced Certificate in Monitoring, Surveillance, and Intelligence Operations
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Advanced Certificate in Cyber Operations
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Advanced Certificate in Cyber Policy
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
BS in Fraud and Financial Crime Investigation
Degree Concentrations
  • Financial Investigation
  • Fraud Prevention and Detection
  • Required Credits: 120
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
BS in Criminal Intelligence Analysis
  • Required Credits: 121
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
BS in Criminal Justice
Degree Concentrations
  • Cyber Criminology and Policy
  • Homeland Security
  • Legal Issues in Criminal Justice
  • Public Policy and Leadership
  • White-Collar Crime
  • Required Credits: 120
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
BS in Cybersecurity
Degree Concentrations
  • Cyber Operations
  • Cybercrime and Fraud Investigation
  • Information Assurance
  • Network Forensics and Intrusion Investigation
  • Required Credits: 120
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Financial Crime and Compliance Operations
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Financial Crime Investigation
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Computer Forensics
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Cyber Crime and Fraud Investigation
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Online Cyber Network Defense
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Online Cybersecurity Technologies
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
MS in Cybersecurity
Degree Concentrations
  • Cyber Operations
  • Electronic Crime
  • Intelligence
  • Malware Analysis
  • Computer Forensics
  • Required Credits: 30
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
MS in Financial Crime and Compliance Management
  • Required Credits: 36
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
Advanced Certificate in Nursing Education
  • Required Credits: 25
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
Advanced Certificate in Nursing Leadership
  • Required Credits: 18
  • Completion Time: 1 year or less
  • Format: Fully online
BS in Health Sciences
  • Required Credits: 120
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
BSN in Nursing
  • Required Credits: 31-61
  • Completion Time: 4-5 years
  • Format: Fully online
Certificate in Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Required Credits: 31
  • Completion Time: 1-2 years
  • Format: Fully online
DPT in Post-Professional Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Required Credits: 18-19
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
MHA in Health Care Administration
Degree Concentrations
  • Acute Care
  • Long-Term Care
  • Service Organization
  • Required Credits: 36
  • Completion Time: 2-3 years
  • Format: Fully online
MS in Nursing
  • Required Credits: 35-48
  • Completion Time: 2.5-3.5 years
  • Format: Fully online

Utica University Admissions, Retention, and Graduation Information

Annual ApplicationsAcceptanceRetention RateGraduation RateMedian SAT Score
3,82692%71%54%1120

Source: U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and NCES); acceptance rate for fall 2024; test scores for fall 2024; applications and enrollment for fall 2023; retention for students who started in fall 2023; graduation rate within six years for students who started in 2019.

How Much Does Utica University Cost To Attend?

Tuition and fees (in-state)
$28,480
Average Net Price by Family Income (2021–22)
IncomeAverage Net Cost
0 - 30K$16,820
30K - 48K$19,163
48K - 75K$20,988
75K - 110K$22,307
110K+$32,144

Source: U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and NCES); tuition and fees for 2025–26; net price for 2024–25, for first-time, full-time students receiving financial aid.

How Much Do Utica University Graduates Make?

Ten years after starting college, former Utica University students who received federal financial aid earn a median of $69,651 a year, and 95% of those not still in school are working.

Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; students who started college in 2011–12 or 2012–13, measured in 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.

Utica University's Demographics

Students enrolled at any time during the 2023–24 school year, including part-time and online students.

Student BodyUnder-GradsGraduates
4,7023,1091,593

Source: National Center for Education Statistics; 12-month enrollment for 2023–24.

Where is Utica University?

Utica University is located at 1600 Burrstone Rd, Utica, NY 13502-4892.

How Safe is Utica University?

Relative to its enrollment, Utica University has a violent crime rate of less than 0.01% and a property crime rate of less than 0.01%. Utica has a violent crime rate of 0.54% and a property crime rate of 3.02%. Sources: campus: U.S. Department of Education Campus Safety and Security data, on-campus offenses in 2024 (violent: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property: burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson, which excludes ordinary theft); city: FBI Crime Data Explorer, offenses reported to the city police in 2024.

What Is Utica University Known For?

Utica University is known for its academic work in the following disciplines:

Utica University's Top Areas of Influence With Degrees Offered

Each rank compares how much Utica University's faculty and alumni have shaped a field with other schools, using Wikipedia, Wikidata and scholarly citation databases such as Crossref and Semantic Scholar. World and U.S. ranks reflect modern influence; the historical rank counts influence across all time. How we rank influence

Earth Sciences
#2582
World Rank
#2595
Historical Rank
#651
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #651 in the U.S. and #2582 worldwide for influence in Earth Sciences.

earth-science Degrees
Chemistry
#3111
World Rank
#3124
Historical Rank
#660
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #660 in the U.S. and #3111 worldwide for influence in Chemistry.

chemistry Degrees
Computer Science
#4332
World Rank
#4339
Historical Rank
#974
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #974 in the U.S. and #4332 worldwide for influence in Computer Science.

computer-science Degrees
Economics
#5793
World Rank
#5795
Historical Rank
#1093
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1093 in the U.S. and #5793 worldwide for influence in Economics.

economics Degrees
Communications
#4372
World Rank
#4394
Historical Rank
#1154
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1154 in the U.S. and #4372 worldwide for influence in Communications.

communications Degrees
Business
#4877
World Rank
#4878
Historical Rank
#1322
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1322 in the U.S. and #4877 worldwide for influence in Business.

business Degrees
Social Work
#3230
World Rank
#3230
Historical Rank
#1334
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1334 in the U.S. and #3230 worldwide for influence in Social Work.

social-work Degrees
Literature
#4137
World Rank
#4170
Historical Rank
#1365
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1365 in the U.S. and #4137 worldwide for influence in Literature.

literature Degrees
Political Science
#7100
World Rank
#7107
Historical Rank
#1685
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1685 in the U.S. and #7100 worldwide for influence in Political Science.

political-science Degrees
Physics
#6180
World Rank
#6197
Historical Rank
#1698
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1698 in the U.S. and #6180 worldwide for influence in Physics.

physics Degrees
Education
#6614
World Rank
#6616
Historical Rank
#1709
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1709 in the U.S. and #6614 worldwide for influence in Education.

education Degrees
Medical
#6414
World Rank
#6415
Historical Rank
#1868
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1868 in the U.S. and #6414 worldwide for influence in Medical.

medicine Degrees
Biology
#7591
World Rank
#7605
Historical Rank
#1879
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1879 in the U.S. and #7591 worldwide for influence in Biology.

biology Degrees
Psychology
#5120
World Rank
#5130
Historical Rank
#1972
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1972 in the U.S. and #5120 worldwide for influence in Psychology.

psychology Degrees
Nursing
#5035
World Rank
#5035
Historical Rank
#1999
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #1999 in the U.S. and #5035 worldwide for influence in Nursing.

nursing Degrees
Philosophy
#7383
World Rank
#7415
Historical Rank
#2199
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #2199 in the U.S. and #7383 worldwide for influence in Philosophy.

philosophy Degrees
Mathematics
#8068
World Rank
#8094
Historical Rank
#2222
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #2222 in the U.S. and #8068 worldwide for influence in Mathematics.

math Degrees
Criminal Justice
#4683
World Rank
#4685
Historical Rank
#2293
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #2293 in the U.S. and #4683 worldwide for influence in Criminal Justice.

criminal-justice Degrees
History
#7519
World Rank
#7527
Historical Rank
#2303
USA Rank

Utica University ranks #2303 in the U.S. and #7519 worldwide for influence in History.

history Degrees

Who Are Utica University's Most Influential Alumni?

Utica University's most influential alumni include professors and professionals in the fields of Earth Sciences, Chemistry, and Social Work. Here are some of Utica University's most famous alumni:

Frank Lentricchia
An American literary critic.
Marilyn E. Jacox
Marilyn E. Jacox
An American physicist .
Megan Myers
An American ice hockey player.