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Etown is ranked #708 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list.
Out of the 103 colleges in Pennsylvania, Etown is ranked at #42.
Elizabethtown College has an acceptance rate of 81%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 38% of students accepted to Etown submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 540 and 640. Math scores were between 530 and 640.
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 Elizabethtown College, this ratio is 13 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Elizabethtown College is 54%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Elizabethtown College has a freshmen retention rate of 85%. 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 Etown the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 68%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Elizabethtown College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,688 undergraduates at Etown with 1,486 being full-time and 202 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $16,765 | $19,576 | $23,232 | $25,343 | $29,725 |
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 Etown, 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 Etown, approximately 69% of students took out student loans averaging $9,520 a year. That adds up to $38,080 over four years for those students.
See which majors at Elizabethtown College make the most money.
Get more details about the location of Elizabethtown College.
Contact details for Etown are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298 |
| Phone: | 717-361-1000 |
| Website: | www.etown.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 88 | $58,707 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 63 | NA |
| Behavioral Science | 56 | NA |
| General Engineering | 34 | $73,003 |
| Mental & Social Health Services | 19 | NA |
| General Biology | 18 | $36,891 |
| General Psychology | 18 | NA |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 17 | $50,918 |
| Accounting | 15 | $61,602 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 15 | $31,003 |
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, 496 students took at least one online class at Elizabethtown College. This is a decrease from the 561 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 496 | 245 |
| 2021-2022 | 561 | 250 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,340 | 251 |
| 2018-2019 | 88 | 8 |
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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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