by our College Data Analytics Team
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Wagner College was awarded 13 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is registered nursing.
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According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Wagner is ranked #193 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Wagner held the #796 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Wagner also holds the #21 spot on the Best Colleges in New York ranking.
If you're applying to Wagner College you'll face some tough competition, since the school's acceptance rate is only 69%. Definitely don't wait until the last minute to submit your application, since applying early may be in your favor.
About 24% of students accepted to Wagner submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 640. Math scores were between 540 and 650.
The student to faculty ratio at Wagner College is about average at 14 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Wagner College is 98%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 82% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Wagner 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 Wagner the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 67%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Wagner College.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,643 undergraduates at Wagner with 1,588 being full-time and 55 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20,960 | $23,124 | $23,237 | $30,973 | $34,249 |
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 Wagner, 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 Wagner, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $9,443 a year. That adds up to $37,772 over four years for those students.
Get more details about the location of Wagner College.
Contact details for Wagner are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One Campus Rd, Staten Island, NY 10301-4495 |
| Phone: | 718-390-3100 |
| Website: | www.wagner.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 167 | $108,746 |
| Allied Health Professions | 78 | $129,269 |
| Business Administration & Management | 69 | $50,079 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 43 | $17,478 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 23 | NA |
| General Psychology | 22 | NA |
| Arts & Media Management | 22 | $29,010 |
| Microbiological Sciences & Immunology | 15 | NA |
| Sociology | 15 | NA |
| Biopsychology | 13 | NA |
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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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