2024 Best Colleges with High Acceptance Rates in the Albany Area

• Saratoga Springs, NY•

• 4 Year

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  Rating 4.03 out of 5  492 reviews

Graduate Student: I am an older student and had concerns about returning to college after many years while caring for my disabled husband. Not only did SUNY Empire make it easy for me to attend but gave me the support and encouragement I needed. I find myself recommending this college to anyone and everyone. Each step of my journey was supported by other students, professors, office staff, even the president. If it wasnt for this supportive family I wouldn't have succeeded. I am truly thankful!... Read 492 reviews

• grade B

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $11,557

• SAT range —

• Troy, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 3.85 out of 5  630 reviews

Freshman: I'm an incoming Freshman at Hudson Valley Community College, starting later this month. I visited the school out of curiosity for their new Welding Technologies associate degree program. I found the campus and all the services offered to be great. The Welding lab, including the Virtual Welding equipment was excellent and well set up. By the end of my visit, I knew that I wanted to attend this school and I applied immediately. I will be able to really increase my welding skills and be better prepared for my career. The college made the application and registration process very easy, with most things taken care of online or by email. This helped tremendously since I have a full-time job and wasn't able to visit or call the school during my workday. Once I start my classes I'll change my working hours to part time so that I can both focus on my studies and take part in some of the campus activities. I am very excited to begin!... Read 630 reviews

• grade C+

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $9,713

• SAT range —

• Schenectady, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 3.64 out of 5  273 reviews

Sophomore: I really like the people and environment! SUNY Schenectady is always making an effort to renovate and improve their space for students, and the students there are all open and inviting. The professors are all super understanding and have your back 24/7! They have multiple spots on campus to get food and have open spaces to meet friends. They have a lovely space outdoors that is perfect to be between classes, and a new library with all the books and textbooks to help you with your academics. They also have free tutoring for pretty much every class! They offer in person and online tutoring. They even have free events throughout semesters with food, games, and raffles. The only thing I took of points for was that some professors are extremely hard graders (but you'll find them everywhere! No college is perfect). Especially for online classes, it's harder for professors to connect with their students so they are not as lenient when it comes to late work or extra credit to improve grades.... Read 273 reviews

• grade C+

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $5,312

• SAT range —

• Albany, NY•

• 4 Year

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  Rating 3.74 out of 5  112 reviews

Alum: What I like about Bryant & Stratton College- Online- Albany is that we were like a tight nit family always there for one another, and help available from many different variety of resources, to answer any questions you may have from career services, financial advisor, student resources, computer lab, work study help, essay writing help, to course work help etc... Your advisor is mostly always available between certain hours or his or her schedule, from office hours, virtual or walk-in hours available. Bryant and Stratton has for life career advisor that will try to help you get a job like helping you write your resume for free or even updating your resume for a newer job always there to help Throughout Life! We all push one another when the tough gets going and the going get tough. Everyone tries to lend a hand to the best of our abilities in order to make sure we all achieve success and reach that number one goal we set out to achieve and that's to graduate! By: Martina Johnson... Read 112 reviews

• grade C minus

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $14,851

• SAT range —

• Albany, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 3.62 out of 5  69 reviews

Sophomore: Mildred-Elley is a great school. This is my third time enrolled in college and I've been more successful then I could possibly imagine. This school has presesnted great opprtunity's for me and allowed me to maintain a 3.9 Gpa with 2 toddlers at home. I would have to say the only downfall is the selection of degrees and ceterficates you can achieve. More classes areas of study should be offered and it could thrive even more as an institution!... Read 69 reviews

• grade D+

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $19,103

• SAT range —

• Albany, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 4.5 out of 5  4 reviews

Graduate Student: It’s still the first semester but so far everything’s been good. They offer a lot of extra help and resources, plus everyone seems super friendly!... Read 4 reviews

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $19,647

• SAT range —

• Schenectady, NY•

• 2 Year

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $23,620

• SAT range —

• Schenectady, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 4.5 out of 5  2 reviews

Freshman: I have not started yet but the reason i gave these scores is from how experienced the staff there was they were very patient with me and were very good at giving information about the course. Afterwords they brought me through the school and it looks very neat organized and shows that safety is a high priority here.... Read 2 reviews

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $18,825

• SAT range —

• Albany, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 2 out of 5  3 reviews

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $17,636

• SAT range —

• Albany, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 4.29 out of 5  7 reviews

Recent Alumnus: It was very great when my professors help us on studying about Linux.... Read 7 reviews

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $6,351

• SAT range —

• Latham, NY•

• 2 Year

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $9,087

• SAT range —

• Albany, NY•

• 2 Year

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  Rating 3.75 out of 5  4 reviews

Freshman: I love the staff! Since it is a small school its like a family all of the Nursing students (regardless of the year they're in) get along and help each other by giving tips on studying and how to manage time. All of the resources are great and the professors are really there to help you succeed.... Read 4 reviews

• grade unavailable

• Acceptance rate 100%

• Net price $27,586

• SAT range —