by our College Data Analytics Team
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College of the Holy Cross was awarded 36 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general english literature.
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Holy Cross is ranked #59 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 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 Holy Cross held the #159 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Holy Cross is also ranked #9 out of 63 schools in Massachusetts.
If you're applying to College of the Holy Cross you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 36%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 35% of students accepted to Holy Cross submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 640 and 720. Math scores were between 620 and 710.
The student to faculty ratio at Holy Cross is an impressive 10 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.
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 College of the Holy Cross is 91%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
College of the Holy Cross has a freshmen retention rate of 95%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Holy Cross the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 90%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,970 undergraduates at Holy Cross with 2,966 being full-time and 4 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $17,648 | $10,890 | $17,534 | $33,795 | $54,645 |
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 Holy Cross, 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 Holy Cross, approximately 45% of students took out student loans averaging $5,896 a year. That adds up to $23,584 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Holy Cross are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One College Street, Worcester, MA 01610-2395 |
| Phone: | 508-793-2011 |
| Website: | www.holycross.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Psychology | 132 | $41,099 |
| Economics | 128 | $69,288 |
| Political Science & Government | 110 | $47,029 |
| History | 65 | $42,345 |
| General English Literature | 57 | $43,362 |
| General Biology | 50 | $43,276 |
| Mathematics | 48 | $61,761 |
| Sociology | 37 | $36,583 |
| Romance Languages | 33 | $52,210 |
| International Studies | 32 | $46,530 |
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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