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St. Thomas Aquinas College was awarded 2 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general special education.
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STAC landed the #1,082 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 STAC held the #1,818 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
STAC also holds the #96 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
Because it has a high acceptance rate of 89%, some consider STAC 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.
About 8% of students accepted to STAC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 490 and 630. Math scores were between 430 and 640.
With a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1, St. Thomas Aquinas College 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 St. Thomas Aquinas College is 43%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at St. Thomas Aquinas College is 71%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At STAC the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 50%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,612 undergraduates at STAC with 1,080 being full-time and 532 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,113 | $18,312 | $26,305 | $26,601 | $27,181 |
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 STAC, 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 STAC, approximately 53% of students took out student loans averaging $6,349 a year. That adds up to $25,396 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for STAC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 125 Rte 340, Sparkill, NY 10976-1050 |
| Phone: | 845-398-4000 |
| Website: | www.stac.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 46 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 37 | NA |
| General Psychology | 33 | $28,310 |
| Special Education | 32 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 26 | $27,997 |
| General Biology | 18 | NA |
| General Education | 18 | NA |
| Security Science and Technology | 18 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 16 | $28,480 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 12 | 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, 302 students took at least one online class at St. Thomas Aquinas College. This is an increase from the 256 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 302 | 4 |
| 2021-2022 | 256 | 7 |
| 2020-2021 | 352 | 5 |
| 2018-2019 | 155 | 8 |
Learn more about online learning at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
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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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