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Carroll College Data & Information Overview

2 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
78% Acceptance Rate
Find out more about how Carroll College ranks, how diverse it is, what majors it offers, and other essential facts below.
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How Well Is Carroll College Ranked?

#894 Best Colleges in Nation
#3 Best Colleges in MT
Health Sciences & Services Highest Ranked Major

2025 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.

Carroll College was awarded 2 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health sciences & services.

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Overall Quality

Carroll Montana is ranked #894 out of 2,198 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Carroll Montana held the #1,371 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

Out of the 11 colleges in Montana, Carroll Montana is ranked at #3.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Carroll Montana?

78% Acceptance Rate
57% Of Accepted Are Women
2% Submit SAT Scores

Acceptance Rate

Carroll College has an acceptance rate of 78%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.

Average Test Scores

About 2% of students accepted to Carroll Montana submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 610 and 620. Math scores were between 470 and 580.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Carroll College  ( 610 to 620 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Carroll College  ( 470 to 580 )
200
800
Carroll Montana received ACT scores from 2% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 13 and 29.

ACT Composite Scores for Carroll College  ( 13 to 29 )
1
36

Learn more about Carroll College admissions.

Carroll College Faculty

12 to 1 Student to Faculty
59% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio at Carroll Montana 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.

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 Carroll College is 59%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  59 out of 100
0
100

Retention and Graduation Rates at Carroll College

78% Freshmen Retention
49% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate of 78% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Carroll 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.

Freshmen Retention Rate  78 out of 100
0
100

Graduation Rate

Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Carroll Montana the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 49%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%

On-Time Graduation Rate  49 out of 100
0
100

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

Carroll College Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,065 Full-Time Undergraduates
10.7% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
61.2% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,100 undergraduates at Carroll Montana with 1,065 being full-time and 35 being part-time.

How Much Does Carroll College Cost?

$22,470 Net Price
46% Take Out Loans
$28,584 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Carroll Montana is $22,470. 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 Carroll Montana

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$16,952 $12,960 $16,167 $23,273 $26,182

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 Carroll Montana, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

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 Carroll Montana, approximately 46% of students took out student loans averaging $7,146 a year. That adds up to $28,584 over four years for those students.

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How Much Money Do Carroll Montana Graduates Make?

$61,772 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Carroll Montana make around $61,772 per year during the early years of their employment. This is good news for future Carroll Montana graduates since it is 61,772% more than the average college graduate's salary of $0 per year.

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See which majors at Carroll College make the most money.

Location of Carroll College

Montana State
1,065 Full-Time Undergraduates
Small City Campus Setting
Carroll College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Helena, Montana. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

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Contact details for Carroll Montana are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 1601 N Benton Ave, Helena, MT 59625-0002
Phone: 406-447-4300
Website: www.carroll.edu/

Carroll College Majors

44 Majors With Completions
510 Undergraduate Degrees
510 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 44 majors graduated from Carroll College. Of these students, 510 received undergraduate degrees and 510 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
Nursing 39 NA
General Biology 22 NA
Health Sciences & Services 21 NA
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 19 NA
Business Administration & Management 19 NA
General Psychology 11 NA
Public Health 9 NA
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology 9 NA
Teacher Education Subject Specific 8 NA
Chemistry 8 NA

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

Online Learning at Carroll Montana

8% Take At Least One Class Online
0% Take All Classes Online

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, 95 students took at least one online class at Carroll College. This is a decrease from the 276 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2022-2023 95 5
2021-2022 276 23
2020-2021 617 16
2018-2019 80 8

Learn more about online learning at Carroll College.

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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

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