by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Chatham University was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is biological & biomedical sciences.
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Chatham landed the #661 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
Chatham also holds the #39 spot on the Best Colleges in Pennsylvania ranking.
The acceptance rate at Chatham University is a competitive 66%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 36% of students accepted to Chatham submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 650. Math scores were between 510 and 620.
At Chatham, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 10 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Chatham University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 80% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Chatham 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 Chatham for first-time, full-time students is 55%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,358 undergraduates at Chatham with 1,071 being full-time and 287 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,793 | $20,536 | $26,345 | $28,605 | $34,515 |
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 Chatham, 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 Chatham, approximately 91% of students took out student loans averaging $10,146 a year. That adds up to $40,584 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Chatham are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Woodland Road, Office Of Institutional Research, Pittsburgh, PA 15232 |
| Phone: | 412-365-1292 |
| Website: | www.chatham.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 105 | $70,404 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 103 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 69 | NA |
| General Biology | 61 | NA |
| General Psychology | 57 | $37,601 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 39 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 36 | NA |
| Sustainability Science | 33 | $18,954 |
| Interior Architecture | 29 | $45,785 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 28 | NA |
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, 1,083 students took at least one online class at Chatham University. This is a decrease from the 1,167 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,083 | 389 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,167 | 418 |
| 2020-2021 | 2,093 | 709 |
| 2018-2019 | 956 | 335 |
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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