by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Kettering University was awarded 7 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is engineering.
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Kettering landed the #417 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation.
Out of the 56 colleges in Michigan, Kettering is ranked at #8.
The acceptance rate at Kettering University is 81%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that Kettering is a good fit for you.
About 55% of students accepted to Kettering submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 560 and 680. Math scores were between 570 and 690.
The student to faculty ratio at Kettering is an impressive 12 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.
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 Kettering University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 87% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Kettering University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about 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 10% for first-time, full-time students at Kettering, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,659 undergraduates at Kettering with 1,597 being full-time and 62 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $24,504 | $26,316 | $32,939 | $33,925 | $36,426 |
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 Kettering, 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 Kettering, approximately 58% of students took out student loans averaging $12,071 a year. That adds up to $48,284 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Kettering are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1700 University Avenue, Flint, MI 48504-6214 |
| Phone: | 800-955-4464 |
| Website: | https://www.kettering.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 193 | $79,307 |
| Business Administration & Management | 73 | NA |
| Other Business, Management & Marketing | 43 | NA |
| Computer Science | 38 | $83,751 |
| Computer Engineering | 35 | $82,580 |
| Electrical Engineering | 35 | $86,360 |
| Engineering Science | 30 | NA |
| Industrial Engineering | 27 | $85,105 |
| Chemical Engineering | 24 | $71,411 |
| Engineering-Related Fields | 23 | NA |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 283 students took at least one online class at Kettering University. This is a decrease from the 293 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 283 | 278 |
| 2021-2022 | 293 | 292 |
| 2020-2021 | 343 | 343 |
| 2018-2019 | 407 | 339 |
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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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