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Goddard College was awarded 26 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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College Factual ranked Goddard College as #920 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 Goddard College held the #1,362 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 11 colleges in Vermont, Goddard College is ranked at #6.
With an acceptance rate of 100%, Goddard College 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.
The student to faculty ratio at Goddard College is an impressive 6 to 1. That's quite good when you compare it to the national average of 15 to 1. This is a good sign that students at the school will have more opportunities for one-on-one interactions with their professors.
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 Goddard College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 25% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Goddard College. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Goddard College the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 50%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 155 undergraduates at Goddard College with 134 being full-time and 21 being part-time.
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 Goddard College, 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 Goddard College, approximately 67% of students took out student loans averaging $7,237 a year. That adds up to $28,948 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Goddard College is 3.9%. 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 Goddard College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667-9432 |
| Phone: | 802-454-8311 |
| Website: | www.goddard.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/GoddardCollege |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/@goddardcollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 24 | $30,570 |
| General Education | 23 | NA |
| Community/Environmental/Socially-Engaged Art | 9 | NA |
| Writing Studies | 6 | NA |
| General Psychology | 4 | NA |
| Multilingual Education | 0 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 0 | NA |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 0 | NA |
| Student Counseling | 0 | NA |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 0 | NA |
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.
References
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