by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
New York University was awarded 111 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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NYU landed the #16 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 1% of all schools in the nation! This is an improvement over the previous year, when NYU held the #27 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
NYU also holds the #3 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
Even if you have the best grades and high test scores, that may not be enough to get into NYU since the school has one of the most selective in the country. Its acceptance rate is a mere 12%, so there's no shame if you don't get in. Be sure to apply to other schools just in case.
About 26% of students accepted to NYU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 720 and 770. Math scores were between 750 and 800.
The student to faculty ratio at NYU is an impressive 8 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.
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 New York University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 95% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like New York 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At NYU the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 79%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at New York University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 27,444 undergraduates at NYU with 25,854 being full-time and 1,590 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15,298 | $11,334 | $16,039 | $36,323 | $58,906 |
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 NYU, 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 NYU, approximately 25% of students took out student loans averaging $8,550 a year. That adds up to $34,200 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for NYU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 70 Washington Sq South, New York, NY 10012-1091 |
| Phone: | 212-998-1212 |
| Website: | https://www.nyu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Information Systems | 1,132 | $87,608 |
| Child Development & Psychology | 882 | $37,512 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 654 | $38,447 |
| Nursing | 627 | $111,360 |
| Social Work | 570 | $26,837 |
| Radio, Television & Digital Communication | 565 | $47,666 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 542 | $20,916 |
| Information Technology | 500 | NA |
| General Biology | 489 | $30,913 |
| Law | 473 | 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 2022-2023, 18,300 students took at least one online class at New York University. This is a decrease from the 26,371 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 18,300 | 4,060 |
| 2021-2022 | 26,371 | 4,757 |
| 2020-2021 | 47,026 | 16,756 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,857 | 1,593 |
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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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