by our College Data Analytics Team
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St Lawrence University was awarded 2 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general business/commerce.
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College Factual ranked St. Lawrence as #391 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. This is an improvement over the previous year, when St. Lawrence held the #459 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
St. Lawrence is also ranked #40 out of 136 schools in New York.
St Lawrence University has an acceptance rate of 63%, which means the school is serious about who it admits. Take your time in putting together a strong application that highlights why you are a good fit for St. Lawrence.
About 19% of students accepted to St. Lawrence submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 630 and 700. Math scores were between 610 and 710.
At St. Lawrence, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 11 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 Lawrence University is 84%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 85% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like St Lawrence University 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At St. Lawrence the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 76%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,280 undergraduates at St. Lawrence with 2,249 being full-time and 31 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9,380 | $14,491 | $17,369 | $24,487 | $40,055 |
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 St. Lawrence, 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 St. Lawrence, approximately 56% of students took out student loans averaging $7,932 a year. That adds up to $31,728 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for St. Lawrence are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 23 Romoda Drive, Canton, NY 13617 |
| Phone: | 315-229-5011 |
| Website: | www.stlawu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Business/Commerce | 89 | $54,772 |
| Economics | 76 | $57,829 |
| General Psychology | 67 | $37,068 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 55 | $35,414 |
| Political Science & Government | 55 | $35,977 |
| Natural Resources Conservation | 47 | $33,270 |
| General Biology | 40 | $33,561 |
| General English Literature | 37 | $29,493 |
| Mathematics | 23 | $58,047 |
| Statistics | 21 | NA |
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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