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Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania was awarded 148 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health sciences & services.
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College Factual ranked SRU as #621 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
SRU is also ranked #37 out of 103 schools in Pennsylvania.
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The acceptance rate at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania is 74%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that SRU is a good fit for you.
About 34% of students accepted to SRU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 480 and 590. Math scores were between 480 and 570.
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The student to faculty ratio at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania is 19 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
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 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania is 87%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania has a freshmen retention rate of 82%. 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At SRU the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 55%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,399 undergraduates at SRU with 6,860 being full-time and 539 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,664 | $14,445 | $18,101 | $22,344 | $23,590 |
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 SRU, 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 SRU, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $8,395 a year. That adds up to $33,580 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for SRU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 Morrow Way, Slippery Rock, PA 16057-1383 |
| Phone: | 724-738-9000 |
| Website: | https://www.sru.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Special Education | 213 | $43,480 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 169 | $41,797 |
| Quality Control Technology | 157 | $67,072 |
| Health Sciences & Services | 122 | $27,347 |
| Business Administration & Management | 119 | $40,819 |
| Public Health | 101 | $42,605 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 79 | $35,840 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 79 | NA |
| General Psychology | 73 | $32,780 |
| Interdisciplinary Studies | 67 | $31,955 |
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, 3,855 students took at least one online class at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. This is a decrease from the 5,227 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 3,855 | 1,306 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,227 | 1,379 |
| 2020-2021 | 8,662 | 6,867 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,818 | 1,041 |
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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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