by our College Data Analytics Team
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Xavier University was awarded 64 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is psychology.
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Xavier landed the #277 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Xavier held the #316 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Xavier also holds the #10 spot on the Best Colleges in Ohio ranking.
Xavier University has an acceptance rate of 85%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 15% of students accepted to Xavier submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 570 and 660. Math scores were between 550 and 650.
The student to faculty ratio at Xavier 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 Xavier University is 54%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 84% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Xavier University 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Xavier the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 61%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Xavier University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,272 undergraduates at Xavier with 5,055 being full-time and 217 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $24,344 | $21,156 | $25,918 | $27,296 | $27,363 |
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 Xavier, 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 Xavier, approximately 59% of students took out student loans averaging $8,988 a year. That adds up to $35,952 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Xavier are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45207-1092 |
| Phone: | 513-745-3000 |
| Website: | https://www.xavier.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 417 | $70,473 |
| Business Administration & Management | 175 | $48,770 |
| Marketing | 112 | $48,015 |
| Health & Physical Education | 86 | $33,003 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 77 | $58,513 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 76 | $39,217 |
| General Psychology | 68 | $35,245 |
| Political Science & Government | 59 | $41,710 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 47 | $47,064 |
| Accounting | 45 | $60,200 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 2,559 students took at least one online class at Xavier University. This is a decrease from the 2,998 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,559 | 580 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,998 | 606 |
| 2020-2021 | 2,240 | 633 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,107 | 823 |
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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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