by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Christopher Newport University was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business administration & management.
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CNU is ranked #548 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 CNU held the #589 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
CNU also holds the #16 spot on the Best Colleges in Virginia ranking.
With an acceptance rate of 85%, CNU has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 40% of students accepted to CNU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 560 and 660. Math scores were between 540 and 630.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Christopher Newport University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Christopher Newport University is 63%. 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 Christopher Newport 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 CNU the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 70%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,758 undergraduates at CNU with 4,653 being full-time and 105 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,562 | $13,690 | $17,026 | $24,805 | $28,609 |
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 CNU, 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 CNU, approximately 41% of students took out student loans averaging $8,879 a year. That adds up to $35,516 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for CNU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 Avenue Of The Arts, Newport News, VA 23606-3072 |
| Phone: | 757-594-7000 |
| Website: | https://cnu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/christophernewportuniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/CNUcaptains |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 194 | NA |
| General Psychology | 146 | NA |
| General Biology | 127 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 89 | NA |
| Political Science & Government | 74 | NA |
| Sociology | 52 | NA |
| Computer Science | 50 | NA |
| History | 48 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 47 | NA |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 47 | NA |
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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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