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Hampden - Sydney College was awarded 38 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business, management & marketing.
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College Factual ranked Hampden - Sydney as #782 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 Hampden - Sydney held the #957 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 63 colleges in Virginia, Hampden - Sydney is ranked at #19.
The acceptance rate at Hampden - Sydney College is a competitive 37%, 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 17% of students accepted to Hampden - Sydney submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 650. Math scores were between 530 and 610.
At Hampden - Sydney, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 9 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Hampden - Sydney College is 91%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Hampden - Sydney College has a freshmen retention rate of 90%. 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Hampden - Sydney the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 61%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 881 undergraduates at Hampden - Sydney with 876 being full-time and 5 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25,847 | $27,931 | $24,999 | $31,153 | $35,794 |
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 Hampden - Sydney, 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 Hampden - Sydney, approximately 60% of students took out student loans averaging $7,407 a year. That adds up to $29,628 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Hampden - Sydney is 4.7%. 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 Hampden - Sydney are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | College Road, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943-0128 |
| Phone: | 434-223-6000 |
| Website: | www.hsc.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/HampdenSydneyCollege |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/hsc1776 |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business/Managerial Economics | 48 | $51,328 |
| Economics | 36 | $46,247 |
| General Biology | 25 | $33,709 |
| History | 21 | NA |
| Political Science & Government | 20 | $34,709 |
| International Relations & National Security | 15 | NA |
| General Psychology | 11 | NA |
| Physics | 8 | NA |
| Romance Languages | 7 | NA |
| Philosophy | 6 | NA |
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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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