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.
Harvey Mudd College was awarded 16 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is multi / interdisciplinary studies.
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According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Harvey Mudd College is ranked #36 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 5% of all schools in the nation.
Harvey Mudd College is also ranked #5 out of 161 schools in California.
With an acceptance rate of 13%, Harvey Mudd College is one of the most selective schools in the country. Good grades and high test scores alone may not be enough to get you into the school, so do your best to submit a stellar application.
About 43% of students accepted to Harvey Mudd College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 720 and 770. Math scores were between 760 and 790.
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 Harvey Mudd College it is much better at 8 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 Harvey Mudd College is 93%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 97% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Harvey Mudd 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.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Harvey Mudd College for first-time, full-time students is 84%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 854 undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College with 821 being full-time and 33 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $24,203 | $31,625 | $8,699 | $21,312 | $56,693 |
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 Harvey Mudd College, 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 Harvey Mudd College, approximately 42% of students took out student loans averaging $7,481 a year. That adds up to $29,924 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Harvey Mudd College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711 |
| Phone: | 909-621-8000 |
| Website: | https://www.hmc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics & Computer Science | 55 | $166,573 |
| General Engineering | 51 | $92,491 |
| Computer Science | 49 | $132,265 |
| Physics | 20 | NA |
| Mathematics | 18 | NA |
| Chemistry | 10 | NA |
| Biomathematics & Bioinformatics | 9 | NA |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology | 7 | NA |
| General Biology | 7 | NA |
| Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies | 5 | NA |
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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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