by our College Data Analytics Team
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Mount Mary University was awarded 91 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health professions.
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College Factual ranked Mount Mary as #287 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Mount Mary held the #403 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 46 colleges in Wisconsin, Mount Mary is ranked at #4.
The acceptance rate at Mount Mary University is a competitive 62%, 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 2% of students accepted to Mount Mary submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 458 and 563. Math scores were between 408 and 560.
At Mount Mary, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 10 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 Mount Mary University is 36%. This is lower 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 Mount Mary University is 68%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Mount Mary the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 42%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 639 undergraduates at Mount Mary with 577 being full-time and 62 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $19,417 | $18,804 | $21,167 | $27,794 | $28,270 |
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 Mount Mary, 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 Mount Mary, approximately 86% of students took out student loans averaging $5,737 a year. That adds up to $22,948 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Mount Mary is 4.3%. 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 Mount Mary are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2900 N. Menomonee River Pky, Milwaukee, WI 53222-4597 |
| Phone: | 414-930-3000 |
| Website: | www.mtmary.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/mountmary |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/MountMary |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Design & Applied Arts | 15 | $28,624 |
| Social Work | 12 | NA |
| Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services | 12 | NA |
| Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing | 11 | $39,282 |
| General Psychology | 11 | NA |
| General Biology | 11 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 7 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 6 | $31,777 |
| Romance Languages | 6 | NA |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 5 | NA |
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, 621 students took at least one online class at Mount Mary University. This is an increase from the 580 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 621 | 107 |
| 2019-2020 | 580 | 153 |
| 2018-2019 | 553 | 139 |
| 2017-2018 | 389 | 168 |
| 2016-2017 | 346 | 195 |
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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