by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Connecticut College was awarded 40 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general psychology.
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Conn College is ranked #255 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation.
Conn College also holds the #5 spot on the Best Colleges in Connecticut ranking.
The acceptance rate at Connecticut College is a competitive 41%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 12% of students accepted to Conn College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 680 and 748. Math scores were between 653 and 728.
The student to faculty ratio at Conn College is an impressive 9 to 1. That's quite good when you compare it to the national average of 15 to 1. This is a good sign that students at the school will have more opportunities for one-on-one interactions with their professors.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Connecticut College is 74%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Connecticut College has a freshmen retention rate of 86%. 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 for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Conn College for first-time, full-time students is 80%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,737 undergraduates at Conn College with 1,689 being full-time and 48 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,178 | $13,979 | $16,044 | $27,748 | $45,734 |
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 Conn College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Conn College, approximately 38% of students took out student loans averaging $9,094 a year. That adds up to $36,376 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Conn College is 1.4%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for Conn College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 270 Mohegan Avenue, New London, CT 06320-4196 |
| Phone: | 860-447-1911 |
| Website: | www.conncoll.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ConnecticutCollege |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/ConnCollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Psychology | 49 | $36,919 |
| Economics | 46 | $54,308 |
| Political Science & Government | 42 | $43,434 |
| General Biology | 29 | $32,970 |
| Area Studies | 27 | $35,171 |
| History | 26 | $30,404 |
| Neurobiology & Neurosciences | 23 | $39,087 |
| Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology | 23 | $30,342 |
| International Relations & National Security | 23 | $44,217 |
| Computer Science | 21 | $75,808 |
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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