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Eastern Mennonite University was awarded 57 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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College Factual ranked Eastern Mennonite as #497 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Eastern Mennonite held the #788 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Eastern Mennonite also holds the #15 spot on the Best Colleges in Virginia ranking.
Because it has a high acceptance rate of 95%, some consider Eastern Mennonite to be a safety school. But don't just assume that admittance is in the bag. Make sure to spend enough time on your application so that it is in tip-top shape.
About 3% of students accepted to Eastern Mennonite submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 490 and 790. Math scores were between 550 and 800.
At Eastern Mennonite, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 11 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Eastern Mennonite University is 95%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Eastern Mennonite University 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 Eastern Mennonite 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%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 896 undergraduates at Eastern Mennonite with 812 being full-time and 84 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,600 | $19,832 | $22,330 | $22,962 | $26,851 |
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 Eastern Mennonite, 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 Eastern Mennonite, approximately 58% of students took out student loans averaging $7,444 a year. That adds up to $29,776 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Eastern Mennonite is 4.2%. 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.
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Contact details for Eastern Mennonite are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1200 Park Rd, Harrisonburg, VA 22802-2462 |
| Phone: | 540-432-4000 |
| Website: | https://emu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/EasternMennonite |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/EMU_News |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 82 | $62,792 |
| Human Resource Management | 30 | NA |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 25 | $42,201 |
| General Biology | 13 | NA |
| Health & Physical Education | 12 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 9 | NA |
| General Psychology | 7 | NA |
| Social Work | 6 | NA |
| Accounting | 6 | NA |
| Computer Science | 5 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 457 students took at least one online class at Eastern Mennonite University. This is a decrease from the 1,020 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 457 | 306 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,020 | 420 |
| 2018-2019 | 323 | 208 |
| 2017-2018 | 376 | 246 |
| 2016-2017 | 360 | 248 |
Learn more about online learning at Eastern Mennonite University.
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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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