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.
Wofford College was awarded 18 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business, management & marketing.
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College Factual ranked Wofford as #315 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Wofford held the #370 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Wofford also holds the #4 spot on the Best Colleges in South Carolina ranking.
If you're applying to Wofford College you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 52%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 29% of students accepted to Wofford submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 600 and 665. Math scores were between 585 and 665.
At Wofford, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 11 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Wofford College is 86%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Wofford College has a freshmen retention rate of 88%. 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 Wofford the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 82%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Wofford College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,764 undergraduates at Wofford with 1,753 being full-time and 11 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,359 | $21,893 | $24,762 | $29,194 | $32,611 |
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 Wofford, 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 Wofford, approximately 45% of students took out student loans averaging $8,514 a year. That adds up to $34,056 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Wofford is 0.7%. 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 Wofford are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 429 N Church St, Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663 |
| Phone: | 864-597-4000 |
| Website: | www.wofford.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/woffordcollege |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/woffordcollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Biology | 79 | $20,359 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 51 | $48,463 |
| Romance Languages | 39 | $32,197 |
| Accounting | 38 | $39,901 |
| Political Science & Government | 32 | $28,241 |
| Business/Managerial Economics | 30 | $43,696 |
| General Psychology | 27 | $27,373 |
| General English Literature | 26 | $27,266 |
| Sociology & Anthropology | 23 | NA |
| Chemistry | 16 | $34,920 |
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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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