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.
Bard College was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social sciences.
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Bard is ranked #647 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Bard held the #836 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Bard is also ranked #59 out of 136 schools in New York.
The acceptance rate at Bard College is a competitive 46%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
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 Bard 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 Bard College is 64%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Bard College has a freshmen retention rate of 89%. 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.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Bard for first-time, full-time students is 61%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Bard College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,118 undergraduates at Bard with 1,793 being full-time and 325 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,906 | $14,828 | $21,598 | $24,792 | $38,571 |
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 Bard, 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 Bard, approximately 45% of students took out student loans averaging $6,006 a year. That adds up to $24,024 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Bard are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Annandale Road, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504-5000 |
| Phone: | 845-758-6822 |
| Website: | www.bard.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Fine & Studio Arts | 164 | $19,327 |
| General Social Sciences | 125 | $23,302 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 120 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 77 | $39,296 |
| English Literature (Other) | 70 | $17,237 |
| Music | 38 | NA |
| Other Visual Art | 28 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 25 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 24 | NA |
| Economics | 11 | NA |
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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