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.
Fielding Graduate University was awarded 221 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is clinical, counseling & applied psychology.
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Fielding is ranked #47 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Fielding held the #76 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Fielding also holds the #11 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
Data for the student to faculty ratio for this school has not been reported.
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 Fielding Graduate University is 34%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The student loan default rate at Fielding is 2.8%. 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 Fielding are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2020 De La Vina St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105-3538 |
| Phone: | 805-687-1099 |
| Website: | www.fielding.edu/ |
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, 1,102 students took at least one online class at Fielding Graduate University. This is an increase from the 1,034 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,102 | 189 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,034 | 150 |
| 2018-2019 | 944 | 120 |
| 2017-2018 | 949 | 110 |
| 2016-2017 | 919 | 160 |
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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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