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Gordon College Data & Information Overview

245 awards Ranking Badges
Fair Price Value for Your Money
77% Acceptance Rate
This overview covers the essential stats on Gordon College, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more.
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How Well Is Gordon College Ranked?

#878 Best Colleges in Nation
#45 Best Colleges in MA
Teacher Education Subject Specific Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

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.

Gordon College was awarded 245 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is teacher education subject specific.

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Overall Quality

Gordon College landed the #878 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.

Gordon College is also ranked #45 out of 63 schools in Massachusetts.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Gordon College?

77% Acceptance Rate
62% Of Accepted Are Women
24% Submit SAT Scores

Acceptance Rate

Gordon College has an acceptance rate of 77%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.

Average Test Scores

About 24% of students accepted to Gordon College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 588 and 700. Math scores were between 565 and 670.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Gordon College  ( 588 to 700 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Gordon College  ( 565 to 670 )
200
800
Gordon College received ACT scores from 8% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 24 and 30.

ACT Composite Scores for Gordon College  ( 24 to 30 )
1
36

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Gordon College Faculty

11 to 1 Student to Faculty
77% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio at Gordon College is an impressive 11 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.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 Gordon College is 77%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  77 out of 100
0
100

Retention and Graduation Rates at Gordon College

79% Freshmen Retention
60% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

Gordon College has a freshmen retention rate of 79%. 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.

Freshmen Retention Rate  79 out of 100
0
100

Graduation Rate

Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Gordon College the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 60%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%

On-Time Graduation Rate  60 out of 100
0
100

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Gordon College Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,390 Full-Time Undergraduates
23.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
61.4% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,451 undergraduates at Gordon College with 1,390 being full-time and 61 being part-time.

How Much Does Gordon College Cost?

$25,748 Net Price
80% Take Out Loans
$34,096 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Gordon College is $25,748. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Gordon College

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$20,481 $24,488 $22,425 $24,761 $28,656

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 Gordon College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

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 Gordon College, approximately 80% of students took out student loans averaging $8,524 a year. That adds up to $34,096 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Gordon College is 3.4%. 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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How Much Money Do Gordon College Graduates Make?

$46,746 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Gordon College make around $46,746 per year during the early years of their employment. This is good news for future Gordon College graduates since it is 10% more than the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year.

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Location of Gordon College

Massachusetts State
1,390 Full-Time Undergraduates
Suburb Campus Setting
Gordon College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Wenham, Massachusetts. Gordon College is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

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Contact details for Gordon College are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 255 Grapevine Rd, Wenham, MA 01984
Phone: 866-464-6736
Website: www.gordon.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GordonCollege
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gordoncollege

Gordon College Majors

44 Majors With Completions
453 Undergraduate Degrees
114 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 44 majors graduated from Gordon College. Of these students, 453 received undergraduate degrees and 114 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 46 $35,785
Business Administration & Management 44 $45,771
Child Development & Psychology 36 NA
Communication & Media Studies 31 $24,365
General Biology 25 $32,003
Physiology & Pathology Sciences 20 $30,735
Mathematics 18 NA
History 16 $21,587
Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries 15 $30,712
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 14 $36,992

Learn more about the majors offered at Gordon College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at Gordon College

38% Take At Least One Class Online
19% Take All Classes Online

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, 690 students took at least one online class at Gordon College. This is a decrease from the 1,101 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 690 334
2019-2020 1,101 302
2018-2019 180 20
2017-2018 229 24
2016-2017 178 45

Learn more about online learning at Gordon College.

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Notes and References

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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