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Holy Family University was awarded 11 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health professions.
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College Factual ranked Holy Family as #515 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Holy Family held the #824 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Holy Family is also ranked #28 out of 103 schools in Pennsylvania.
The acceptance rate at Holy Family University is 77%. 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 Holy Family is a good fit for you.
About 11% of students accepted to Holy Family submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 427 and 557. Math scores were between 425 and 535.
The student to faculty ratio at Holy Family University is about average at 13 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Holy Family University is 19%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
Holy Family University has a freshmen retention rate of 79%. 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 Holy Family the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 43%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,138 undergraduates at Holy Family with 1,848 being full-time and 290 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9,737 | $10,325 | $11,491 | $15,941 | $16,837 |
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 Holy Family, 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 Holy Family, approximately 74% of students took out student loans averaging $6,935 a year. That adds up to $27,740 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Holy Family are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9801 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19114-2009 |
| Phone: | 215-637-7700 |
| Website: | https://www.holyfamily.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 337 | $83,363 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 84 | NA |
| Special Education | 76 | NA |
| Educational Administration | 74 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 68 | $49,870 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 49 | $46,555 |
| General Psychology | 39 | $24,833 |
| General Education | 32 | NA |
| General Biology | 31 | $44,567 |
| Teaching English or French | 26 | 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, 2,161 students took at least one online class at Holy Family University. This is a decrease from the 2,358 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,161 | 493 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,358 | 734 |
| 2020-2021 | 3,075 | 2,783 |
| 2018-2019 | 928 | 486 |
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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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