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Cedarville University was awarded 15 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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College Factual ranked Cedarville as #974 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
Cedarville also holds the #31 spot on the Best Colleges in Ohio ranking.
Cedarville University has an acceptance rate of 65%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for Cedarville.
About 35% of students accepted to Cedarville submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 580 and 690. Math scores were between 550 and 690.
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 Cedarville University, this ratio is 16 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Cedarville University is 65%. 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 Cedarville 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Cedarville the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 64%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,024 undergraduates at Cedarville with 3,540 being full-time and 484 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $17,152 | $19,617 | $19,209 | $24,810 | $26,144 |
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 Cedarville, 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 Cedarville, approximately 48% of students took out student loans averaging $7,264 a year. That adds up to $29,056 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Cedarville are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 251 N. Main Street, Cedarville, OH 45314-0601 |
| Phone: | 937-766-7700 |
| Website: | https://www.cedarville.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 165 | $69,047 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 68 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 58 | NA |
| Mechanical Engineering | 53 | $69,178 |
| Design & Applied Arts | 45 | $35,768 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 42 | $37,102 |
| General Psychology | 33 | NA |
| Biblical Studies | 28 | $42,572 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 27 | NA |
| Computer Science | 24 | $76,615 |
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, 2,171 students took at least one online class at Cedarville University. This is an increase from the 1,793 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,171 | 833 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,793 | 752 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,837 | 631 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,470 | 578 |
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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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