Bard College Data & Information Overview

This overview covers the essential stats on Bard College, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more. If you're interested in learning more about a particular stat, just click on its tile to go to a new page that covers the topic more in-depth. Also, you can jump to any section of this page by clicking one of the links below.

• Rankings
• Admission and Acceptance
• Faculty
• Retention and Graduation Rates
• Diversity
• Cost
• Student Debt
• Average Earnings
• Location
• Majors
• Online Learning

How Well Is Bard College Ranked?

2021 Rankings

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.

Bard College was awarded 16 badges in the 2021 rankings.

Overall Quality

According to College Factual's 2021 analysis, Bard is ranked #250 out of 1,715 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation.

Bard is also ranked #29 out of 132 schools in New York.

See all of the rankings for Bard College.

Is It Hard to Get Into Bard?

Acceptance Rate

If you're applying to Bard College you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 58%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.

Learn more about Bard College admissions.

Bard College Faculty

Student to Faculty Ratio

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.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 58%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Retention and Graduation Rates at Bard College

Freshmen Retention Rate

Bard College has a freshmen retention rate of 83%. 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.

Graduation Rate

Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Bard the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 69%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%

Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Bard College.

Excellent Overall Diversity at Bard

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,957 undergraduates at Bard with 1,901 being full-time and 56 being part-time.

Bard Diversity Score

College Factual computes an overall diversity score for each college and university that takes gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and age into account. Schools with the best mixtures of students with respect to these factors are ranked the highest, and those that cater to just one or two student groups are ranked the lowest.

With an overall score of 92.51 out of 100, Bard is one of the most diverse schools in the nation.

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How Much Does Bard College Cost?

The overall average net price of Bard is $25,885. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Bard

$0-30 K	$30K-48K	$48-75	$75-110K	$110K +
$16,022	$21,558	$21,482	$26,243	$40,422

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.

Student Loan Debt

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 Bard, approximately 51% of students took out student loans averaging $6,628 a year. That adds up to $26,512 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Bard is 4.7%. 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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How Much Money Do Bard Graduates Make?

Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Bard make around $39,700 per year during the early years of their employment. This is right on par with the average college graduate's salary of $39,802 per year. Also, graduates in your major field may make more.

See which majors at Bard College make the most money.

Location of Bard College

Bard College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. Annandale-On-Hudson is a good match for students who enjoy small-town life.

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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
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/BardCollegeNY
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/BARDCollege

Bard College Majors

During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 13 majors graduated from Bard College. Of these students, 475 received undergraduate degrees and 169 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors	Bachelor’s Degrees	Average Salary of Graduates
General Social Sciences	150	NA
Fine & Studio Arts	109	NA
Biological & Physical Science	74	NA
English Literature (Other)	65	NA
Music	16	NA
Accounting	0	NA
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	0	NA
Natural Resources Conservation	0	NA
Economics	0	NA
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	NA

Learn more about the majors offered at Bard College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Learn more about online learning at Bard College.

Notes and References

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.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.