by our College Data Analytics Team
In its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Dickinson College was awarded 5 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business, management & marketing.
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Dickinson landed the #364 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. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Dickinson held the #379 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Dickinson is also ranked #21 out of 103 schools in Pennsylvania.
The acceptance rate at Dickinson College is a competitive 35%, 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.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at Dickinson it is much better at 9 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Dickinson College is 83%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 89% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Dickinson 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Dickinson the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 81%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Dickinson College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,932 undergraduates at Dickinson with 1,837 being full-time and 95 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $17,850 | $15,621 | $14,690 | $21,922 | $41,427 |
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 Dickinson, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Dickinson, approximately 47% of students took out student loans averaging $7,388 a year. That adds up to $29,552 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Dickinson are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | College And Louther Streets, Carlisle, PA 17013-2896 |
| Phone: | 717-243-5121 |
| Website: | https://www.dickinson.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| International Business | 66 | $60,553 |
| Political Science & Government | 49 | $37,507 |
| General Psychology | 44 | $37,227 |
| Area Studies | 32 | $32,722 |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology | 29 | $35,305 |
| Natural Resources Conservation | 29 | $27,663 |
| International Relations & National Security | 29 | NA |
| Neurobiology & Neurosciences | 25 | NA |
| Education Philosophy | 25 | $44,383 |
| Mathematics | 25 | NA |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2022-2023, 12 students took at least one online class at Dickinson College. This is an increase from the 0 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 12 | 12 |
| 2021-2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020-2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 |
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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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