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Fort Hays State University was awarded 32 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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College Factual ranked FHSU as #1,562 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
Out of the 44 colleges in Kansas, FHSU is ranked at #26.
With an acceptance rate of 88%, FHSU has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 6% of students accepted to FHSU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 460 and 590. Math scores were between 480 and 600.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Fort Hays State University, this ratio is 15 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Fort Hays State University is 49%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
Fort Hays State University has a freshmen retention rate of 76%. 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 is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 25% for first-time, full-time students at FHSU, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 12,211 undergraduates at FHSU with 5,580 being full-time and 6,631 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9,671 | $9,972 | $12,575 | $15,522 | $16,006 |
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 FHSU, 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 FHSU, approximately 48% of students took out student loans averaging $5,565 a year. That adds up to $22,260 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for FHSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 600 Park St, Hays, KS 67601-4099 |
| Phone: | 785-628-4000 |
| Website: | www.fhsu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 987 | $52,129 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 233 | $47,313 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 223 | $42,795 |
| Nursing | 207 | $67,435 |
| General Education | 178 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 178 | $42,112 |
| General Psychology | 157 | $40,009 |
| Economics | 156 | $50,690 |
| English Literature (Other) | 151 | NA |
| Computer Programming | 148 | $57,162 |
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 2022-2023, 7,923 students took at least one online class at Fort Hays State University. This is a decrease from the 7,985 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 7,923 | 6,074 |
| 2021-2022 | 7,985 | 6,600 |
| 2020-2021 | 8,553 | 6,708 |
| 2018-2019 | 12,876 | 11,012 |
Learn more about online learning at Fort Hays State University.
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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