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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?

0 Undergraduate Awards
$53,762 Avg Cost After Aid
18% Acceptance Rate
  • Carleton has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 8 to 1.
  • Students at Carleton have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 0%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
  • The highest award offered at Carleton is the bachelor's degree.
  • For the <nil> academic year, 83% of the faculty were full-time.
  • After graduation, Carleton bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $70,334 a year. That's about 72% more than their peers at 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?

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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

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 Recommended
High School Rank Recommended
High School Transcript Required
College Prep Program Recommended
Recommendations Required
SAT or ACT Scores Considered but not required
TOEFL Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Carleton?

18% Acceptance Rate
51% Of Accepted Are Women
35% Submit SAT Scores
The acceptance rate at Carleton is 18%, which means the school is highly selective when deciding who will be admitted and who won't. Even if you have great grades and test scores, that may not be enough. So be sure to look for ways to make your application memorable.

Approximately 49% of accepted students are men and 51% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 18%, and the acceptance rate for women is 17%.

Average Test Scores

About 35% 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 698 and 760. Math scores were between 710 and 790.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Carleton College  ( 698 to 760 )
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800

SAT Math Scores for Carleton College  ( 710 to 790 )
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800
Carleton received ACT scores from 34% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 32 and 35. Math scores were between 29 and 34. Composite scores were between 31 and 35.

ACT English Scores for Carleton College  ( 32 to 35 )
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36
ACT Math Scores for Carleton College  ( 29 to 34 )
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36
ACT Composite Scores for Carleton College  ( 31 to 35 )
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36

Can I Afford Carleton College?

$53,762 Net Price
45% Take Out Loans
0.4% Loan Default Rate
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 45% of students took out student loans averaging $4,597 a year. That adds up to $18,388 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Carleton is 0.4%. 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.

Carleton College Undergraduate Student Diversity

2,032 Full-Time Undergraduates
51% Women
33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 2,044 undergraduate students at Carleton, with 2,032 being full-time and 12 being part-time.

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Gender Diversity

Of the 2,032 full-time undergraduates at Carleton, 49% are male and 51% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 202
Black or African American 127
Hispanic or Latino 181
White 1,099
International Students 206
Other Races/Ethnicities 217

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.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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