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.
Sacred Heart University was awarded 21 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Sacred Heart is ranked #321 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Sacred Heart held the #706 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Sacred Heart also holds the #9 spot on the Best Colleges in Connecticut ranking.
Sacred Heart University has an acceptance rate of 66%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for Sacred Heart.
The student to faculty ratio at Sacred Heart University is about average at 16 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Sacred Heart University is 33%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
Sacred Heart University has a freshmen retention rate of 85%. 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Sacred Heart the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 67%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Sacred Heart University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 6,417 undergraduates at Sacred Heart with 5,671 being full-time and 746 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $37,986 | $39,204 | $42,068 | $44,891 | $46,287 |
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 Sacred Heart, 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 Sacred Heart, approximately 65% of students took out student loans averaging $12,381 a year. That adds up to $49,524 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Sacred Heart are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5151 Park Ave, Fairfield, CT 06825-1000 |
| Phone: | 203-371-7999 |
| Website: | https://www.sacredheart.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 526 | $90,830 |
| Business Administration & Management | 221 | $42,051 |
| Social Work | 169 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 146 | $28,134 |
| Accounting | 139 | $60,375 |
| General Education | 138 | NA |
| Child Development & Psychology | 134 | NA |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 119 | NA |
| Physiology & Pathology Sciences | 116 | NA |
| Finance & Financial Management | 115 | $56,081 |
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, 4,489 students took at least one online class at Sacred Heart University. This is an increase from the 4,077 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 4,489 | 1,221 |
| 2021-2022 | 4,077 | 1,303 |
| 2020-2021 | 6,321 | 1,576 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,801 | 1,102 |
Learn more about online learning at Sacred Heart University.
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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