by our College Data Analytics Team
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Seton Hall University was awarded 36 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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Seton Hall landed the #283 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 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Seton Hall held the #404 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 45 colleges in New Jersey, Seton Hall is ranked at #9.
The acceptance rate at Seton Hall University is 75%. 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 Seton Hall is a good fit for you.
About 24% of students accepted to Seton Hall submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 620 and 700. Math scores were between 610 and 690.
With a student to faculty ratio of 14 to 1, Seton Hall University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Seton Hall University is 95%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 83% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Seton Hall 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 Seton Hall the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 65%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,913 undergraduates at Seton Hall with 5,724 being full-time and 189 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $19,239 | $20,645 | $27,247 | $35,154 | $41,505 |
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 Seton Hall, 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 Seton Hall, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $11,822 a year. That adds up to $47,288 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Seton Hall are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 400 S Orange Ave, South Orange, NJ 07079-2697 |
| Phone: | 973-761-9000 |
| Website: | https://www.shu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Law | 196 | NA |
| Nursing | 174 | $91,908 |
| General Biology | 167 | $27,759 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 161 | $64,233 |
| Business Administration & Management | 144 | NA |
| Marketing | 124 | $50,200 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 123 | $36,993 |
| International Relations & National Security | 123 | $45,440 |
| Accounting | 98 | $69,411 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 98 | 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, 3,157 students took at least one online class at Seton Hall University. This is an increase from the 2,233 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 3,157 | 1,084 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,233 | 1,097 |
| 2020-2021 | 8,504 | 4,178 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,249 | 872 |
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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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