by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Faulkner University was awarded 36 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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Faulkner is ranked #1,646 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Faulkner held the #1,699 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Faulkner is also ranked #24 out of 40 schools in Alabama.
The acceptance rate at Faulkner University is a competitive 65%, 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 Faulkner submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 500 and 600. Math scores were between 490 and 605.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Faulkner 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.
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 Faulkner University is 54%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Faulkner University is 64%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 14% for first-time, full-time students at Faulkner, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,098 undergraduates at Faulkner with 1,361 being full-time and 737 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $19,201 | $21,231 | $18,988 | $22,399 | $23,168 |
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 Faulkner, 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 Faulkner, approximately 74% of students took out student loans averaging $9,338 a year. That adds up to $37,352 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Faulkner is 9.9%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Faulkner are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5345 Atlanta Hwy, Montgomery, AL 36109-3390 |
| Phone: | 334-272-5820 |
| Website: | www.faulkner.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/FaulknerUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/FaulknerEdu |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 78 | $36,040 |
| Business Administration & Management | 72 | $39,646 |
| General Business/Commerce | 58 | $46,429 |
| Human Resource Management | 48 | $35,921 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 28 | $25,465 |
| Health & Physical Education | 10 | NA |
| General Social Sciences | 9 | NA |
| Accounting | 9 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 8 | $35,964 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 7 | 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, 1,567 students took at least one online class at Faulkner University. This is a decrease from the 1,710 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,567 | 1,183 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,710 | 1,284 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,657 | 1,147 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,665 | 1,124 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,702 | 993 |
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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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