Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 60.2%, so approximately 2/5 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Master’s Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs

• Undergrad program: Balanced arts & sciences/professions, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Single program-Education

• Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $11,996 . This is 60% the average cost of Harvard.

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, small, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 81% of first year students come from New Jersey

• In US percentage: 97% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Roman Catholic

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 60.2% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 50.3%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 20.7 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 17.2 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 621 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 3 percent or less of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• Saint Peter’s University lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Marist College, Gannon University, Niagara University, Utica University, Hood College, Georgian Court University, Mercy University, Manhattanville College, University of Mount Saint Vincent, Iona University, Mount Saint Mary College, Felician University
• Saint Peter’s University compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Barnard College, Vassar College, Bucknell University, Skidmore College, Lafayette College, Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College, Franklin and Marshall College, Union College, Gettysburg College, Bard College, St Lawrence University, Touro University, Muhlenberg College, Messiah University, Ithaca College, St. John’s College, St. John Fisher University, Loyola University Maryland, Saint Joseph’s University, University of Scranton, Hobart William Smith Colleges, Siena College, Molloy College, Susquehanna University, Gwynedd Mercy University, Chatham University, Drew University, Manhattan College, DeSales University, Alfred University, Elizabethtown College, Lebanon Valley College, Allegheny College, Mercyhurst University, Grove City College, Canisius University, Russell Sage College, Rider University, Hartwick College, Monmouth University, Nazareth University, Washington College, Misericordia University, Geneva College, Mount St. Mary’s University, Arcadia University, Westminster College, Robert Morris University, Washington & Jefferson College, Waynesburg University, Daemen University, Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham Campus, La Salle University, Goucher College, Wilkes University, Cedar Crest College, Cairn University-Langhorne, Cabrini University, King’s College, Delaware Valley University, Thiel College, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Albright College, Keystone College, Saint Elizabeth University, Hilbert College, Keuka College, Centenary University, Chestnut Hill College, Wilson College, Metropolitan College of New York, Trinity Washington University, Neumann University, La Roche University, Excelsior University
• These institutions compare themselves to Saint Peter’s University, but not vice versa: Eastern University, St Bonaventure University, Le Moyne College, Caldwell University, St Catherine University, Walsh University, Berkeley College-Woodland Park, University of Saint Joseph, Benedictine College, Berkeley College-New York, Dominican University, St. Thomas University, Our Lady of the Lake University, Albertus Magnus College, LIM College, Curry College

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).