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Minnesota State University - Moorhead was awarded 313 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social work.
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MSU Moorhead is ranked #594 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when MSU Moorhead held the #618 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 52 colleges in Minnesota, MSU Moorhead is ranked at #25.
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Minnesota State University - Moorhead has an acceptance rate of 72%, 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.
About 2% of students accepted to MSU Moorhead submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 510 and 580. Math scores were between 530 and 600.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Minnesota State University - Moorhead, this ratio is 18 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Minnesota State University - Moorhead is 65%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Minnesota State University - Moorhead is 69%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At MSU Moorhead this rate is 34%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,445 undergraduates at MSU Moorhead with 3,529 being full-time and 916 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $12,675 | $14,194 | $15,809 | $20,019 | $21,064 |
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 MSU Moorhead, 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 MSU Moorhead, approximately 65% of students took out student loans averaging $8,707 a year. That adds up to $34,828 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at MSU Moorhead is 3.0%. 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 MSU Moorhead are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1104 Seventh Avenue South, Moorhead, MN 56563 |
| Phone: | 800-593-7246 |
| Website: | https://www.mnstate.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/msumoorhead |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/MSUMoorhead |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 123 | $45,318 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 95 | $37,338 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 81 | $38,418 |
| Nursing | 59 | $64,801 |
| Social Work | 57 | $39,480 |
| General Psychology | 46 | $32,505 |
| Accounting | 43 | $45,508 |
| Health & Physical Education | 41 | $33,771 |
| General Biology | 38 | $30,907 |
| Communication Sciences | 36 | $23,835 |
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, 3,852 students took at least one online class at Minnesota State University - Moorhead. This is an increase from the 3,361 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 3,852 | 1,426 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,361 | 1,242 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,126 | 1,329 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,977 | 1,213 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,625 | 1,151 |
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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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