by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Richard Bland College of William and Mary was awarded 16 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is physical sciences.
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RBC is ranked #642 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 RBC held the #778 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
RBC is also ranked #18 out of 63 schools in Virginia.
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The acceptance rate at Richard Bland College of William and Mary is 72%. 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 RBC is a good fit for you.
The student to faculty ratio at Richard Bland College of William and Mary is 27 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 Richard Bland College of William and Mary is 49%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 38% rate at Richard Bland College of William and Mary is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Richard Bland College of William and Mary.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,218 undergraduates at RBC with 843 being full-time and 1,375 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,995 | $11,314 | $13,556 | $16,944 | $18,871 |
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 RBC, 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 RBC, approximately 42% of students took out student loans averaging $6,178 a year. That adds up to $24,712 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at RBC is 15.4%. Watch out! This is significantly higher than the national default rate of 10.1%, which means you could have trouble paying back your student loans if you take any out.
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Contact details for RBC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 11301 Johnson Road, South Prince George, VA 23805-7100 |
| Phone: | 804-862-6100 |
| Website: | www.rbc.edu/ |
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, 504 students took at least one online class at Richard Bland College of William and Mary. This is a decrease from the 965 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 504 | 98 |
| 2019-2020 | 965 | 415 |
| 2018-2019 | 418 | 66 |
| 2017-2018 | 457 | 58 |
| 2016-2017 | 455 | 95 |
Learn more about online learning at Richard Bland College of William and Mary.
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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