by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Wabash College was awarded 16 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general economics.
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Wabash is ranked #356 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 Wabash held the #496 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Wabash also holds the #9 spot on the Best Colleges in Indiana ranking.
If you're applying to Wabash College you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 62%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 53% of students accepted to Wabash submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 570 and 670. Math scores were between 570 and 670.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Wabash it is much better at 9 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
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 Wabash College is 92%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Wabash College has a freshmen retention rate of 85%. 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 Wabash 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%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Wabash College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 868 full-time undergraduates at Wabash.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $16,637 | $14,558 | $19,742 | $22,259 | $29,059 |
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 Wabash, 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 Wabash, approximately 61% of students took out student loans averaging $6,930 a year. That adds up to $27,720 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Wabash is 2.8%. 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.
Get more details about the location of Wabash College.
Contact details for Wabash are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 301 West Wabash Avenue, Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352 |
| Phone: | 765-361-6100 |
| Website: | www.wabash.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wabash-College/16568430836 |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/WabashCollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Writing Studies | 22 | NA |
| Economics | 21 | $50,346 |
| Political Science & Government | 20 | $45,148 |
| History | 18 | $32,054 |
| Religious Studies | 17 | NA |
| Child Development & Psychology | 14 | NA |
| General English Literature | 12 | NA |
| General Biology | 10 | $30,882 |
| Romance Languages | 9 | NA |
| Mathematics | 8 | $52,397 |
This is a decrease from the 95 students who took online classes the previous year.
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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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