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.
Trinity College was awarded 338 badges in the 2023 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is international policy analysis.
Trinity Bantams landed the #106 spot in College Factual's 2023 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,241 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country.
Out of the 28 colleges in Connecticut, Trinity Bantams is ranked at #2.
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Trinity College has an acceptance rate of 36%, 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 Trinity Bantams.
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The student to faculty ratio at Trinity Bantams is an impressive 9 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 Trinity College is 85%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 90% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Trinity 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.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Trinity Bantams for first-time, full-time students is 78%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,200 undergraduates at Trinity Bantams with 2,167 being full-time and 33 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9,349 | $8,608 | $18,675 | $21,469 | $46,100 |
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 Trinity Bantams, 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 Trinity Bantams, approximately 46% of students took out student loans averaging $6,574 a year. That adds up to $26,296 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Trinity Bantams is 1.9%. 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.
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Contact details for Trinity Bantams are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 300 Summit St, Hartford, CT 06106-3100 |
| Phone: | 860-297-2000 |
| Website: | https://www.trincoll.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/TrinityCollege |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/trinitycollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Economics | 77 | $61,320 |
| Political Science & Government | 74 | $57,856 |
| General Psychology | 71 | $32,400 |
| General English Literature | 36 | $41,078 |
| Public Policy | 35 | $50,564 |
| Neurobiology & Neurosciences | 35 | $37,188 |
| Area Studies | 32 | $36,115 |
| General Biology | 28 | $35,376 |
| General Engineering | 22 | $68,750 |
| Romance Languages | 21 | NA |
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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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