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.
Syracuse University was awarded 113 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is design & applied arts.
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Syracuse is ranked #62 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Syracuse held the #132 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Syracuse also holds the #5 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
The acceptance rate at Syracuse University is a competitive 52%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 26% of students accepted to Syracuse submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 630 and 710. Math scores were between 630 and 720.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Syracuse University, this ratio is 15 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Syracuse University is 67%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Syracuse University has a freshmen retention rate of 91%. 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 Syracuse the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 71%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 14,479 undergraduates at Syracuse with 13,832 being full-time and 647 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,312 | $18,458 | $22,928 | $33,733 | $52,798 |
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 Syracuse, 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 Syracuse, approximately 41% of students took out student loans averaging $10,986 a year. That adds up to $43,944 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Syracuse is 3.0%. 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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Contact details for Syracuse are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 900 South Crouse Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244 |
| Phone: | 315-443-1870 |
| Website: | https://www.syracuse.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 451 | $65,009 |
| Computer Information Systems | 450 | $82,378 |
| Public Relations & Advertising | 358 | $54,934 |
| Social Work | 358 | NA |
| Public Administration | 292 | $53,912 |
| General Psychology | 270 | $34,654 |
| Information Science | 251 | $73,033 |
| Economics | 240 | $55,974 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 227 | $72,819 |
| International Relations & National Security | 194 | $43,249 |
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, 4,783 students took at least one online class at Syracuse University. This is a decrease from the 5,418 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 4,783 | 2,244 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,418 | 2,606 |
| 2020-2021 | 3,112 | 2,043 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,070 | 2,279 |
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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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