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Longwood landed the #1,153 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 Longwood held the #1,512 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Longwood is also ranked #31 out of 57 schools in Virginia.
With an acceptance rate of 88%, Longwood has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 42% of students accepted to Longwood submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 620. Math scores were between 500 and 590.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Longwood University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Longwood University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Longwood University has a freshmen retention rate of 76%. 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.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Longwood for first-time, full-time students is 51%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Longwood University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,940 undergraduates at Longwood with 3,319 being full-time and 621 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,115 | $15,366 | $18,034 | $22,918 | $26,455 |
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 Longwood, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Longwood, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $7,262 a year. That adds up to $29,048 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Longwood are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 201 High St, Farmville, VA 23909 |
| Phone: | 434-395-2000 |
| Website: | www.longwood.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 337 | $49,213 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 71 | NA |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 68 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 64 | $36,062 |
| General Psychology | 58 | $22,656 |
| Nursing | 57 | $69,962 |
| General Education | 56 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 56 | $36,254 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 49 | $46,714 |
| Communication Sciences | 45 | NA |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2022-2023, 1,286 students took at least one online class at Longwood University. This is a decrease from the 1,611 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,286 | 879 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,611 | 904 |
| 2020-2021 | 3,140 | 794 |
| 2018-2019 | 428 | 303 |
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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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