Carleton College Overview

Carleton College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Northfield, Minnesota. Northfield is a great place for students who enjoy small town life.

What Is Carleton College Known For?

• Carleton has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 8 to 1.
• The highest award offered at Carleton is the bachelor's degree.
• In a recent academic period80% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Carleton with a bachelor's degree make about $75,525 a year. That's 85% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• It takes the average Carleton student 4.1 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Carleton College?

Contact details for Carleton are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	One North College Street, Northfield, MN 55057
Phone:	507-222-4000
Website:	www.carleton.edu

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How Do I Get Into Carleton?

You can apply to Carleton online at: https://www.carleton.edu/admissions/apply/steps/

Admission Requirements for Carleton

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	5
High School Rank	5
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	1
Recommendations	1
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Carleton?

With an acceptance rate of 17%, Carleton is one of the most selective schools in the country. If the admissions department requests additional materials, be sure to submit them promptly. This could be a sign that you're on the border line of being accepted or denied.

Approximately 48% of accepted students are men and 52% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 17%, and the acceptance rate for women is 17%.

Average Test Scores

About 37% of students accepted to Carleton submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 710 and 770. Math scores were between 720 and 780.

Carleton received ACT scores from 28% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 33 and 35. Math scores were between 29 and 0. Composite scores were between 32 and 35.

Can I Afford Carleton College?

The overall average net price of Carleton is $53,762. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

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 Carleton, approximately 41% of students took out student loans averaging $4,492 a year. That adds up to $17,968 over four years for those students.

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Carleton College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,940 undergraduate students at Carleton, with 1,918 being full-time and 22 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,918 full-time undergraduates at Carleton, 48% are male and 52% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Carleton College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	188
Black or African American	113
Hispanic or Latino	171
White	1,067
International Students	191
Other Races/Ethnicities	188

Geographic Diversity

Minnesota students aren't the only ones who study at Carleton College. At this time, 46 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 45 countries are represented at Carleton. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, South Korea, and India.

Carleton College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
Computer Science	80	80
General Biology	65	65
International Relations & National Security	40	40
Mathematics	39	39
Chemistry	38	38
Economics	37	37
Child Development & Psychology	29	29
Fine & Studio Arts	25	25
General English Literature	23	23
Sociology & Anthropology	23	23
Statistics	21	21
Area Studies	18	18
Natural Resources Conservation	16	16
Physics	16	16
History	15	15
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	14	14
Ethnic Studies	10	10
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	8	8
Cognitive Science	7	7
Geological & Earth Sciences	7	7
Philosophy	6	6
Religious Studies	6	6
Music	5	5
Classical Languages & Literature	4	4
East Asian Languages	4	4
Drama & Theater Arts	1	1
Germanic Languages	0	0
Romance Languages	0	0
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	0	0
TOTAL	557	557

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Dogs1337 under License

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