by our College Data Analytics Team
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Rowan University was awarded 73 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice & corrections.
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College Factual ranked Rowan as #345 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation.
Out of the 45 colleges in New Jersey, Rowan is ranked at #13.
Rowan University has an acceptance rate of 77%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 36% of students accepted to Rowan submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 650. Math scores were between 540 and 650.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Rowan University, this ratio is 16 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Rowan University is 46%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
Rowan University has a freshmen retention rate of 85%. 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 Rowan for first-time, full-time students is 48%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 15,963 undergraduates at Rowan with 13,832 being full-time and 2,131 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14,013 | $14,385 | $20,768 | $26,072 | $27,448 |
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 Rowan, 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 Rowan, approximately 51% of students took out student loans averaging $9,044 a year. That adds up to $36,176 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Rowan are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028 |
| Phone: | 856-256-4000 |
| Website: | https://www.rowan.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Psychology | 432 | $30,920 |
| Business Administration & Management | 431 | $46,439 |
| General Biology | 307 | $33,313 |
| Medicine | 297 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 274 | $33,254 |
| Public Relations & Advertising | 236 | $35,116 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 181 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 165 | $67,278 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 156 | $51,486 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 149 | $43,486 |
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, 10,777 students took at least one online class at Rowan University. This is an increase from the 9,750 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 10,777 | 2,486 |
| 2021-2022 | 9,750 | 2,481 |
| 2020-2021 | 11,628 | 2,063 |
| 2018-2019 | 6,212 | 1,524 |
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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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