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Gardner - Webb University was awarded 29 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is registered nursing.
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Gardner - Webb landed the #1,016 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 is an improvement over the previous year, when Gardner - Webb held the #1,093 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Gardner - Webb also holds the #30 spot on the Best Colleges in North Carolina ranking.
The acceptance rate at Gardner - Webb University is 75%. 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 Gardner - Webb is a good fit for you.
About 16% of students accepted to Gardner - Webb submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 610. Math scores were between 500 and 600.
At Gardner - Webb, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 11 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Gardner - Webb University is 98%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Gardner - Webb University is 66%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Gardner - Webb the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 45%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,071 undergraduates at Gardner - Webb with 1,726 being full-time and 345 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,532 | $17,864 | $19,783 | $22,200 | $26,185 |
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 Gardner - Webb, 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 Gardner - Webb, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $7,854 a year. That adds up to $31,416 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Gardner - Webb are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | Main St, Boiling Springs, NC 28017-0997 |
| Phone: | 704-406-2361 |
| Website: | www.gardner-webb.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 210 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 206 | $42,840 |
| Nursing | 183 | $71,337 |
| Accounting | 44 | $44,261 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 43 | $35,433 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 43 | $34,491 |
| Allied Health Professions | 37 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 36 | $39,850 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 34 | NA |
| Health & Physical Education | 30 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 1,497 students took at least one online class at Gardner - Webb University. This is a decrease from the 1,529 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,497 | 897 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,529 | 806 |
| 2020-2021 | 2,622 | 1,394 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,755 | 1,101 |
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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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