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Saint Michael's College was awarded 3 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general education.
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Saint Michael's landed the #746 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 is an improvement over the previous year, when Saint Michael's held the #858 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Saint Michael's also holds the #5 spot on the Best Colleges in Vermont ranking.
The acceptance rate at Saint Michael's College is 85%, which is higher than many other schools to which you may be applying. But don't think getting into Saint Michael's is a sure thing. The admissions staff is still going to review your application to see if you are a good fit for the school.
About 19% of students accepted to Saint Michael's submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 600 and 678. Math scores were between 560 and 637.
At Saint Michael's, 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 Saint Michael's College is 98%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 79% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Saint Michael's College 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 Saint Michael's the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 72%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Saint Michael’s College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,537 undergraduates at Saint Michael's with 1,492 being full-time and 45 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14,071 | $16,234 | $19,810 | $26,984 | $33,769 |
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 Saint Michael's, 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 Saint Michael's, approximately 61% of students took out student loans averaging $12,115 a year. That adds up to $48,460 over four years for those students.
See which majors at Saint Michael’s College make the most money.
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Contact details for Saint Michael's are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Winooski Park, Colchester, VT 05439 |
| Phone: | 802-654-2000 |
| Website: | www.smcvt.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 75 | $51,126 |
| General Education | 57 | NA |
| General Biology | 46 | $36,327 |
| General Psychology | 44 | $36,902 |
| Natural Resources Conservation | 38 | $33,658 |
| General English Literature | 22 | $34,348 |
| Accounting | 20 | $56,723 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 19 | $45,489 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 16 | $30,747 |
| History | 16 | 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, 176 students took at least one online class at Saint Michael's College. This is a decrease from the 319 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 176 | 26 |
| 2021-2022 | 319 | 13 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,390 | 162 |
| 2018-2019 | 53 | 8 |
Learn more about online learning at Saint Michael’s College.
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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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