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Thomas Aquinas College was awarded 3 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts.
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TAC is ranked #454 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when TAC held the #613 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
TAC also holds the #80 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
The acceptance rate at Thomas Aquinas College is 83%. 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 TAC is a good fit for you.
About 34% of students accepted to TAC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 610 and 720. Math scores were between 570 and 650.
The student to faculty ratio at TAC 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.
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 Thomas Aquinas College is 99%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Thomas Aquinas College has a freshmen retention rate of 89%. 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 TAC the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 78%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Thomas Aquinas College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 462 full-time undergraduates at TAC.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15,857 | $16,870 | $22,179 | $22,944 | $31,941 |
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 TAC, 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 TAC, approximately 73% of students took out student loans averaging $3,868 a year. That adds up to $15,472 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at TAC is 0.9%. 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.
See which majors at Thomas Aquinas College make the most money.
Get more details about the location of Thomas Aquinas College.
Contact details for TAC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 10000 Ojai Road, Santa Paula, CA 93060 |
| Phone: | 805-525-4417 |
| Website: | https://thomasaquinas.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/ThomasAquinasCollege |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/TACollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 79 | $31,750 |
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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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