by our College Data Analytics Team
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Muhlenberg College was awarded 11 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general business administration and management.
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Muhlenberg landed the #331 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. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Muhlenberg held the #350 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Muhlenberg also holds the #17 spot on the Best Colleges in Pennsylvania ranking.
If you're applying to Muhlenberg College you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 66%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 32% of students accepted to Muhlenberg submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 600 and 700. Math scores were between 600 and 700.
The student to faculty ratio at Muhlenberg 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.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Muhlenberg College is 57%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 91% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Muhlenberg 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 Muhlenberg for first-time, full-time students is 81%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,046 undergraduates at Muhlenberg with 2,016 being full-time and 30 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15,212 | $16,762 | $18,477 | $25,141 | $37,789 |
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 Muhlenberg, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Muhlenberg, approximately 56% of students took out student loans averaging $8,149 a year. That adds up to $32,596 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Muhlenberg are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18104 |
| Phone: | 484-664-3100 |
| Website: | www.muhlenberg.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 73 | $56,434 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 72 | $17,150 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 57 | $29,950 |
| General Psychology | 53 | $24,828 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 39 | $61,304 |
| General Biology | 31 | $27,005 |
| Political Science & Government | 29 | $25,058 |
| Neurobiology & Neurosciences | 27 | $29,250 |
| Accounting | 24 | $68,852 |
| General English Literature | 24 | $17,062 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 100 students took at least one online class at Muhlenberg College. This is a decrease from the 296 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 100 | 16 |
| 2021-2022 | 296 | 28 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,810 | 1,193 |
| 2018-2019 | 15 | 1 |
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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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