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Goucher College was awarded 133 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general education.
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Goucher landed the #715 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
Goucher also holds the #12 spot on the Best Colleges in Maryland ranking.
The acceptance rate at Goucher College is 82%. 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 Goucher is a good fit for you.
About 29% of students accepted to Goucher submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 548 and 700. Math scores were between 538 and 660.
The student to faculty ratio at Goucher is an impressive 8 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 Goucher College is 38%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 80% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Goucher 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 Goucher the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 55%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,114 undergraduates at Goucher with 1,086 being full-time and 28 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $16,233 | $21,710 | $21,555 | $25,522 | $34,469 |
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 Goucher, 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 Goucher, approximately 84% of students took out student loans averaging $7,014 a year. That adds up to $28,056 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Goucher is 4.6%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
Get more details about the location of Goucher College.
Contact details for Goucher are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd, Baltimore, MD 21204-2794 |
| Phone: | 410-337-6000 |
| Website: | www.goucher.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/gouchercollege |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/gouchercollege |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Psychology | 34 | $25,101 |
| Business Administration & Management | 28 | $48,069 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 25 | $27,447 |
| Romance Languages | 22 | NA |
| Sociology | 20 | NA |
| General Biology | 17 | NA |
| General English Literature | 15 | $27,912 |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 14 | NA |
| International Relations & National Security | 14 | NA |
| Chemistry | 13 | 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 2020-2021, 751 students took at least one online class at Goucher College. This is a decrease from the 885 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 751 | 682 |
| 2019-2020 | 885 | 870 |
| 2018-2019 | 444 | 348 |
| 2017-2018 | 362 | 216 |
| 2016-2017 | 223 | 92 |
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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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