by our College Data Analytics Team
College 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.
SUNY Oneonta was awarded 75 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is criminal justice studies.
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SUNY Oneonta landed the #358 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 puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when SUNY Oneonta held the #1,145 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
SUNY Oneonta is also ranked #37 out of 136 schools in New York.
The acceptance rate at SUNY Oneonta is 73%. 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 SUNY Oneonta is a good fit for you.
About 25% of students accepted to SUNY Oneonta submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 630. Math scores were between 540 and 620.
With a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1, SUNY Oneonta 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.
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 SUNY Oneonta is 59%. This is higher 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 SUNY Oneonta is 72%, 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 SUNY Oneonta the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 69%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at SUNY Oneonta.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 6,190 undergraduates at SUNY Oneonta with 6,059 being full-time and 131 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,946 | $14,440 | $18,696 | $21,256 | $24,344 |
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 SUNY Oneonta, 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 SUNY Oneonta, approximately 64% of students took out student loans averaging $7,028 a year. That adds up to $28,112 over four years for those students.
Get more details about the location of SUNY Oneonta.
Contact details for SUNY Oneonta are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 108 Ravine Parkway, Oneonta, NY 13820-4015 |
| Phone: | 607-436-3500 |
| Website: | https://suny.oneonta.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/SUNYOneonta |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/SUNY_Oneonta |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 182 | $36,776 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 179 | $30,410 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 138 | $27,973 |
| Business/Managerial Economics | 133 | $41,859 |
| General Biology | 107 | $32,738 |
| Health & Physical Education | 67 | $36,119 |
| General Psychology | 66 | $32,845 |
| Design & Applied Arts | 66 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 57 | $36,143 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 57 | $32,043 |
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, 1,180 students took at least one online class at SUNY Oneonta. This is a decrease from the 4,582 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,180 | 499 |
| 2021-2022 | 4,582 | 649 |
| 2020-2021 | 6,655 | 6,580 |
| 2018-2019 | 396 | 350 |
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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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