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.
Adelphi University was awarded 37 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health professions.
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Adelphi is ranked #183 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 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 Adelphi held the #554 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Adelphi is also ranked #20 out of 136 schools in New York.
The acceptance rate at Adelphi University is 73%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that Adelphi is a good fit for you.
About 5% of students accepted to Adelphi submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 560 and 650. Math scores were between 550 and 660.
The student to faculty ratio at Adelphi is an impressive 12 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 Adelphi University is 31%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
Adelphi University 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 Adelphi the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 62%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Adelphi University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,124 undergraduates at Adelphi with 4,827 being full-time and 297 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $22,374 | $23,405 | $25,292 | $31,449 | $29,941 |
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 Adelphi, 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 Adelphi, approximately 50% of students took out student loans averaging $8,635 a year. That adds up to $34,540 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Adelphi are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 South Ave, Garden City, NY 11530-0701 |
| Phone: | 516-877-3000 |
| Website: | www.adelphi.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 483 | $102,136 |
| Social Work | 269 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 133 | $44,495 |
| General Psychology | 131 | $20,458 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 111 | $35,814 |
| Communication Sciences | 107 | NA |
| General Biology | 105 | $30,101 |
| Health & Physical Education | 92 | $25,041 |
| General Education | 84 | NA |
| Special Education | 77 | NA |
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, 3,189 students took at least one online class at Adelphi University. This is a decrease from the 5,514 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 3,189 | 525 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,514 | 1,084 |
| 2020-2021 | 7,251 | 2,229 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,582 | 268 |
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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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