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Bridgewater State University was awarded 106 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is physical education teaching & coaching.
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Bridgewater State is ranked #452 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Bridgewater State held the #529 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Bridgewater State also holds the #24 spot on the Best Colleges in Massachusetts ranking.
With an acceptance rate of 88%, Bridgewater State has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 14% of students accepted to Bridgewater State submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 610. Math scores were between 510 and 600.
With a student to faculty ratio of 17 to 1, Bridgewater State University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Bridgewater State University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Bridgewater State University has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At Bridgewater State this rate is 36%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 9,028 undergraduates at Bridgewater State with 7,133 being full-time and 1,895 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $12,275 | $13,478 | $16,847 | $19,505 | $22,496 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Bridgewater State, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Bridgewater State, approximately 85% of students took out student loans averaging $6,485 a year. That adds up to $25,940 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Bridgewater State are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 131 Summer Street, Bridgewater, MA 02325 |
| Phone: | 508-531-1000 |
| Website: | www.bridgew.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Psychology | 312 | $35,718 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 251 | $38,216 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 189 | $43,800 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 188 | $45,720 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 171 | $43,735 |
| Social Work | 170 | $41,187 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 131 | $34,146 |
| Special Education | 111 | $50,061 |
| Accounting | 103 | $54,221 |
| General English Literature | 95 | $34,569 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 5,526 students took at least one online class at Bridgewater State University. This is an increase from the 4,396 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 5,526 | 1,004 |
| 2021-2022 | 4,396 | 817 |
| 2020-2021 | 4,364 | 348 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,434 | 333 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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