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.
Boston College was awarded 128 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is finance & financial management.
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College Factual ranked Boston College as #17 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 1% of all schools in the nation! This is an improvement over the previous year, when Boston College held the #60 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Boston College is also ranked #3 out of 63 schools in Massachusetts.
With an acceptance rate of 17%, Boston College is one of the most selective schools in the country. Good grades and high test scores alone may not be enough to get you into the school, so do your best to submit a stellar application.
About 34% of students accepted to Boston College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 705 and 760. Math scores were between 730 and 780.
The student to faculty ratio at Boston College 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 Boston College is 59%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 95% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Boston College 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.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Boston College for first-time, full-time students is 89%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 9,780 undergraduates at Boston College with 9,571 being full-time and 209 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,988 | $7,260 | $15,264 | $24,041 | $55,461 |
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 Boston College, 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 Boston College, approximately 32% of students took out student loans averaging $3,588 a year. That adds up to $14,352 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Boston College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 |
| Phone: | 617-552-8000 |
| Website: | www.bc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Economics | 440 | $72,099 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 388 | $82,495 |
| Business Administration & Management | 363 | $71,675 |
| Social Work | 257 | NA |
| Law | 256 | NA |
| Nursing | 226 | $78,934 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 188 | $55,162 |
| General Biology | 184 | $38,592 |
| Accounting | 174 | $75,512 |
| Political Science & Government | 173 | $46,764 |
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, 2,615 students took at least one online class at Boston College. This is a decrease from the 7,240 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,615 | 814 |
| 2021-2022 | 7,240 | 650 |
| 2020-2021 | 12,621 | 1,505 |
| 2018-2019 | 505 | 189 |
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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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