by our College Data Analytics Team
College 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.
Elon University was awarded 55 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is communication & media studies.
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Elon landed the #190 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 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Elon held the #235 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Elon is also ranked #5 out of 93 schools in North Carolina.
The acceptance rate at Elon University is 74%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that Elon is a good fit for you.
About 2% of students accepted to Elon submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 590 and 680. Math scores were between 580 and 680.
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 Elon it is much better at 11 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
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 Elon University is 81%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 90% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Elon 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 Elon for first-time, full-time students is 79%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Elon University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 6,291 undergraduates at Elon with 6,073 being full-time and 218 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $22,319 | $18,489 | $28,446 | $36,307 | $46,697 |
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 Elon, 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 Elon, approximately 28% of students took out student loans averaging $9,977 a year. That adds up to $39,908 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Elon are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 100 Campus Drive, Elon, NC 27244-2010 |
| Phone: | 336-278-2000 |
| Website: | www.elon.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Public Relations & Advertising | 176 | NA |
| Finance & Financial Management | 152 | $66,614 |
| Law | 127 | NA |
| Marketing | 122 | $55,893 |
| Radio, Television & Digital Communication | 121 | $33,894 |
| Business Administration & Management | 112 | NA |
| General Psychology | 111 | $36,668 |
| Health & Physical Education | 108 | $21,440 |
| Political Science & Government | 89 | $38,836 |
| Accounting | 71 | $69,764 |
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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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