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Roanoke College Data & Information Overview

68 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
80% Acceptance Rate
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How Well Is Roanoke College Ranked?

#1,015 Best Colleges in Nation
#24 Best Colleges in VA
Communications Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

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.

Roanoke College was awarded 68 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is communications.

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Overall Quality

According to College Factual's 2024 analysis, Roanoke is ranked #1,015 out of 2,217 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality.

Out of the 63 colleges in Virginia, Roanoke is ranked at #24.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Roanoke?

80% Acceptance Rate
62% Of Accepted Are Women
35% Submit SAT Scores

Acceptance Rate

The acceptance rate at Roanoke College is 80%. 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 Roanoke is a good fit for you.

Average Test Scores

About 35% of students accepted to Roanoke submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 630. Math scores were between 530 and 600.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Roanoke College  ( 550 to 630 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Roanoke College  ( 530 to 600 )
200
800
Roanoke received ACT scores from 10% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 22 and 27.

ACT Composite Scores for Roanoke College  ( 22 to 27 )
1
36

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Roanoke College Faculty

11 to 1 Student to Faculty
86% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio at Roanoke is an impressive 11 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.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 Roanoke College is 86%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  86 out of 100
0
100

Retention and Graduation Rates at Roanoke College

76% Freshmen Retention
63% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

Roanoke College has a freshmen retention rate of 76%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.

Freshmen Retention Rate  76 out of 100
0
100

Graduation Rate

The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Roanoke for first-time, full-time students is 63%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.

On-Time Graduation Rate  63 out of 100
0
100

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Roanoke College Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,883 Full-Time Undergraduates
16.7% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
56.6% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,920 undergraduates at Roanoke with 1,883 being full-time and 37 being part-time.

How Much Does Roanoke College Cost?

$26,997 Net Price
69% Take Out Loans
$33,840 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Roanoke is $26,997. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Roanoke

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$20,495 $20,849 $23,983 $28,042 $32,099

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 Roanoke, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

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 Roanoke, approximately 69% of students took out student loans averaging $8,460 a year. That adds up to $33,840 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Roanoke is 3.6%. 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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How Much Money Do Roanoke Graduates Make?

$50,770 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Roanoke make around $50,770 per year during the early years of their employment. This is good news for future Roanoke graduates since it is 20% more than the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year.

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Location of Roanoke College

Virginia State
1,883 Full-Time Undergraduates
Suburb Campus Setting
Roanoke College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Salem, Virginia. Roanoke is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

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Contact details for Roanoke are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 221 College Lane, Salem, VA 24153-3794
Phone: 540-375-2500
Website: https://www.roanoke.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roanoke
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoanokeCollege

Roanoke College Majors

34 Majors With Completions
458 Undergraduate Degrees
Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Business Administration & Management 76 $40,923
Health & Physical Education 41 $26,496
General Biology 33 $31,147
General Psychology 32 $27,545
Communication & Media Studies 22 $38,514
History 21 $31,415
Political Science & Government 20 $44,873
Teacher Education Grade Specific 18 NA
Criminal Justice & Corrections 17 $35,311
Sociology 17 NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Roanoke College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

This is a decrease from the 1,890 students who took online classes the previous year.

Learn more about online learning at Roanoke College.

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Notes and References

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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