by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Baruch College was awarded 418 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is accounting.
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According to College Factual's 2024 analysis, Baruch is ranked #264 out of 2,217 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Baruch held the #279 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Baruch is also ranked #20 out of 142 schools in New York.
Baruch College has an acceptance rate of 51%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for Baruch.
The student to faculty ratio at Baruch College is 20 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 Baruch College is 42%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 87% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Baruch College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Baruch the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 44%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Baruch College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 15,774 undergraduates at Baruch with 12,421 being full-time and 3,353 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $493 | $2,741 | $7,187 | $9,059 | $12,274 |
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 Baruch, 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 Baruch, approximately 4% of students took out student loans averaging $6,470 a year. That adds up to $25,880 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Baruch is 2.2%. 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.
Get more details about the location of Baruch College.
Contact details for Baruch are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Bernard Baruch Way (55 Lexington Ave At 24Th St), New York, NY 10010 |
| Phone: | 646-312-1000 |
| Website: | www.baruch.cuny.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Finance & Financial Management | 1,006 | $46,734 |
| Accounting | 660 | $46,908 |
| General Sales & Marketing | 477 | $38,977 |
| Business/Corporate Communications | 326 | $41,939 |
| Information Science | 285 | $49,897 |
| Business Administration & Management | 232 | $41,308 |
| General Psychology | 131 | $33,883 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 130 | $47,592 |
| Economics | 97 | $44,077 |
| Business/Managerial Economics | 72 | $49,498 |
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 2020-2021, 17,210 students took at least one online class at Baruch College. This is a decrease from the 19,740 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 17,210 | 4,370 |
| 2019-2020 | 19,740 | 19,547 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,378 | 71 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,359 | 88 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,852 | 77 |
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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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