by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus was awarded 125 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is education.
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College Factual ranked UC as #137 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UC held the #166 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
UC also holds the #6 spot on the Best Colleges in Ohio ranking.
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Because it has a high acceptance rate of 86%, some consider UC to be a safety school. But don't just assume that admittance is in the bag. Make sure to spend enough time on your application so that it is in tip-top shape.
About 10% of students accepted to UC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 580 and 670. Math scores were between 580 and 690.
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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 University of Cincinnati - Main Campus, this ratio is 18 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus is 58%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 86% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Cincinnati - Main Campus 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 is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At UC this rate is 37%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 29,933 undergraduates at UC with 24,301 being full-time and 5,632 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $12,066 | $13,815 | $20,258 | $25,042 | $25,710 |
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 UC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At UC, approximately 51% of students took out student loans averaging $8,696 a year. That adds up to $34,784 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at UC is 1.0%. 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 UC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2624 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0063 |
| Phone: | 513-556-6000 |
| Website: | www.uc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 1,182 | $71,105 |
| Marketing | 504 | $50,636 |
| Computer Information Systems | 503 | $69,548 |
| Business Administration & Management | 482 | $60,360 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 388 | $40,557 |
| General Psychology | 337 | $33,513 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 305 | NA |
| Mechanical Engineering | 301 | $72,412 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 292 | $59,067 |
| General Biology | 278 | $34,092 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 25,711 students took at least one online class at University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. This is a decrease from the 26,538 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 25,711 | 8,635 |
| 2021-2022 | 26,538 | 9,073 |
| 2020-2021 | 35,499 | 16,831 |
| 2018-2019 | 16,800 | 6,280 |
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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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