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Maryville University of Saint Louis was awarded 30 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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Maryville U landed the #319 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 puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation.
Maryville U also holds the #7 spot on the Best Colleges in Missouri ranking.
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Because it has a high acceptance rate of 88%, some consider Maryville U to be a safety school. But don't just assume that admittance is in the bag. Make sure to spend enough time on your application so that it is in tip-top shape.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Maryville University of Saint Louis 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.
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 Maryville University of Saint Louis is 15%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 83% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Maryville University of Saint Louis 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 Maryville U for first-time, full-time students is 56%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,504 undergraduates at Maryville U with 3,249 being full-time and 2,255 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $21,011 | $20,872 | $24,174 | $26,377 | $26,516 |
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 Maryville U, 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 Maryville U, approximately 55% of students took out student loans averaging $7,487 a year. That adds up to $29,948 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Maryville U are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 650 Maryville University Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63141-7299 |
| Phone: | 800-627-9855 |
| Website: | https://www.maryville.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 1,386 | $69,116 |
| General Business/Commerce | 237 | NA |
| Intelligence & Command Control Operations | 138 | $61,299 |
| Accounting | 121 | $61,237 |
| Educational Administration | 117 | NA |
| Data Science | 104 | NA |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 92 | NA |
| General Psychology | 86 | $25,204 |
| Business Administration & Management | 84 | $48,296 |
| Data Analytics | 84 | 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, 8,303 students took at least one online class at Maryville University of Saint Louis. This is a decrease from the 8,887 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 8,303 | 6,607 |
| 2021-2022 | 8,887 | 7,202 |
| 2020-2021 | 9,166 | 7,309 |
| 2018-2019 | 5,102 | 5,102 |
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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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