by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Purchase College was awarded 33 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is drama & theater arts.
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Purchase College is ranked #563 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Purchase College held the #898 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Purchase College also holds the #53 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
Purchase College has an acceptance rate of 75%, 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 11% of students accepted to Purchase College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 620 and 700. Math scores were between 570 and 650.
At Purchase College, 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.
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 Purchase College is 43%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 79% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Purchase 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Purchase College the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 53%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,600 undergraduates at Purchase College with 3,248 being full-time and 352 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $13,804 | $17,108 | $21,116 | $22,164 | $26,340 |
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 Purchase College, 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 Purchase College, approximately 51% of students took out student loans averaging $6,613 a year. That adds up to $26,452 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Purchase College is 1.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for Purchase College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 735 Anderson Hill Rd, Purchase, NY 10577-1400 |
| Phone: | 914-251-6000 |
| Website: | www.purchase.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Drama & Theater Arts | 149 | $18,090 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 80 | $31,881 |
| Music | 74 | $17,887 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 70 | $14,984 |
| General Psychology | 66 | $27,838 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 65 | $18,128 |
| Dance | 56 | $12,039 |
| Arts & Media Management | 43 | $18,079 |
| History | 39 | $23,803 |
| General Visual & Performing Arts | 36 | $22,024 |
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, 1,205 students took at least one online class at Purchase College. This is a decrease from the 2,944 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,205 | 60 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,944 | 428 |
| 2020-2021 | 3,623 | 2,366 |
| 2018-2019 | 48 | 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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