by our College Data Analytics Team
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is architecture & related services.
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The Colleges is ranked #404 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when The Colleges held the #475 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 136 colleges in New York, The Colleges is ranked at #42.
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges has an acceptance rate of 68%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for The Colleges.
About 22% of students accepted to The Colleges submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 610 and 700. Math scores were between 600 and 700.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at The Colleges it is much better at 8 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Hobart and William Smith Colleges is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges has a freshmen retention rate of 87%. 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 The Colleges the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 72%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,824 undergraduates at The Colleges with 1,808 being full-time and 16 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $19,352 | $11,523 | $19,653 | $22,959 | $40,907 |
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 The Colleges, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At The Colleges, approximately 60% of students took out student loans averaging $8,228 a year. That adds up to $32,912 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for The Colleges are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 337 Pulteney Street, Geneva, NY 14456 |
| Phone: | 315-781-3000 |
| Website: | www.hws.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Economics | 70 | $61,946 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 63 | $50,750 |
| Natural Resources Conservation | 54 | $43,671 |
| General Psychology | 42 | $38,117 |
| General Biology | 34 | $33,163 |
| Political Science & Government | 31 | $35,381 |
| History | 30 | $30,710 |
| Architecture (Other) | 26 | $29,900 |
| General English Literature | 24 | NA |
| Writing Studies | 22 | 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.
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