by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras was awarded 266 badges in the 2023 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is modern languages.
According to College Factual's 2023 analysis, UPR Rio Piedras is ranked #1,210 out of 2,241 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This is an improvement over the previous year, when UPR Rio Piedras held the #1,796 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
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The acceptance rate at University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras is a competitive 49%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, this ratio is 15 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras is 72%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 84% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras 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.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 15% for first-time, full-time students at UPR Rio Piedras, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 10,877 undergraduates at UPR Rio Piedras with 9,543 being full-time and 1,334 being part-time.
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 UPR Rio Piedras, 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 UPR Rio Piedras, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $1,805 a year. That adds up to $7,220 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at UPR Rio Piedras is 5.1%. 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 UPR Rio Piedras are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 39 Avenida Ponce De Leon, San Juan, PR 00931-0000 |
| Phone: | 787-764-0000 |
| Website: | www.uprrp.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/uprrp |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/uprrp |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Biology | 213 | NA |
| General Psychology | 167 | $12,250 |
| Accounting | 128 | NA |
| Marketing | 101 | $21,004 |
| Linguistics & Comparative Literature | 95 | $20,193 |
| Social Work | 87 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 84 | $16,730 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 75 | $14,325 |
| Human Resource Management | 73 | $21,942 |
| Political Science & Government | 70 | 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 2019-2020, 376 students took at least one online class at University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras. This is an increase from the 10 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-2020 | 376 | 3 |
| 2018-2019 | 10 | 10 |
| 2017-2018 | 5 | 5 |
| 2016-2017 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015-2016 | 5 | 5 |
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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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