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.
Aurora University was awarded 21 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social work.
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According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Aurora is ranked #348 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Aurora held the #354 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 85 colleges in Illinois, Aurora is ranked at #11.
The acceptance rate at Aurora University is 82%. 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 Aurora is a good fit for you.
About 29% of students accepted to Aurora submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 500 and 608. Math scores were between 480 and 590.
With a student to faculty ratio of 18 to 1, Aurora University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Aurora University is 24%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
Aurora University has a freshmen retention rate of 73%. 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 Aurora the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 47%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,158 undergraduates at Aurora with 3,822 being full-time and 336 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15,022 | $15,459 | $17,290 | $21,086 | $23,897 |
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 Aurora, 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 Aurora, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $5,788 a year. That adds up to $23,152 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Aurora are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 347 S Gladstone Ave, Aurora, IL 60506-4892 |
| Phone: | 630-892-6431 |
| Website: | https://aurora.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/aurorauniversity |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/aurorau |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Social Work | 766 | $38,382 |
| Business Administration & Management | 286 | $48,843 |
| Nursing | 158 | $72,520 |
| Educational Administration | 101 | NA |
| Health & Physical Education | 99 | $37,256 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 95 | $44,150 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 93 | $44,282 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 76 | NA |
| Philosophy | 73 | NA |
| Marketing | 53 | $39,482 |
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, 2,125 students took at least one online class at Aurora University. This is an increase from the 2,123 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,125 | 1,615 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,123 | 1,638 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,828 | 5,585 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,074 | 882 |
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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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