by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Wofford College was awarded 2 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is biological & biomedical sciences.
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Wofford is ranked #930 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list.
Wofford also holds the #8 spot on the Best Colleges in South Carolina ranking.
The acceptance rate at Wofford College is a competitive 60%, 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.
About 30% of students accepted to Wofford submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 610 and 680. Math scores were between 590 and 673.
At Wofford, 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 Wofford College is 84%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Wofford College has a freshmen retention rate of 89%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Wofford for first-time, full-time students is 77%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,764 undergraduates at Wofford with 1,753 being full-time and 11 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14,410 | $18,324 | $20,488 | $29,988 | $36,157 |
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 Wofford, 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 Wofford, approximately 46% of students took out student loans averaging $8,264 a year. That adds up to $33,056 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Wofford are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 429 N Church St, Spartanburg, SC 29303-3663 |
| Phone: | 864-597-4000 |
| Website: | www.wofford.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Biology | 82 | $24,287 |
| Multicultural & Diversity Studies | 82 | NA |
| General Psychology | 82 | $34,429 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 74 | $57,335 |
| Romance Languages | 47 | $39,499 |
| Business/Managerial Economics | 39 | $48,055 |
| Accounting | 34 | $51,552 |
| Sociology & Anthropology | 27 | NA |
| Political Science & Government | 26 | $34,277 |
| General English Literature | 22 | $34,478 |
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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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