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.
Bryant University was awarded 20 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general business administration and management.
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College Factual ranked Bryant as #84 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This lands it a coveted spot in the top 5% of all colleges and universities in the country. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Bryant held the #127 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 9 colleges in Rhode Island, Bryant is ranked at #2.
If you're applying to Bryant University you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 69%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 19% of students accepted to Bryant submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 580 and 650. Math scores were between 583 and 670.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Bryant University, this ratio is 13 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Bryant University is 59%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 86% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Bryant University 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 Bryant for first-time, full-time students is 79%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,281 undergraduates at Bryant with 3,255 being full-time and 26 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $34,692 | $35,481 | $37,271 | $40,235 | $42,403 |
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 Bryant, 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 Bryant, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $13,242 a year. That adds up to $52,968 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Bryant are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917-1291 |
| Phone: | 401-232-6000 |
| Website: | https://www.bryant.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 237 | $65,045 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 200 | $61,993 |
| Accounting | 147 | $64,665 |
| Marketing | 141 | $50,727 |
| International Business | 66 | $65,237 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 60 | $60,162 |
| Allied Health Professions | 47 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 38 | $45,071 |
| Applied Mathematics | 29 | $64,954 |
| Human Resource Management | 26 | $62,176 |
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, 87 students took at least one online class at Bryant University. This is a decrease from the 119 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 87 | 87 |
| 2021-2022 | 119 | 119 |
| 2020-2021 | 457 | 457 |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 |
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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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