Catholic Distance University Overview

Located in Charles Town, West Virginia, Catholic Distance University is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Charles Town is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Catholic Distance University Known For?

• CDU has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 3 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at CDU is 4%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The highest award offered at CDU is the master's degree.
• In <nil>, 25% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Catholic Distance University?

Contact details for CDU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	300 S. George Street, Charles Town, WV 25414
Phone:	888-254-4238
Website:	cdu.edu

How Do I Get Into CDU?

You can apply to CDU online at: https://cdu.edu/apply-to-a-program/

Since Catholic Distance University has an open admissions policy, you should not have any trouble getting into the school as long as you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Can I Afford Catholic Distance University?

The student loan default rate at CDU is 4.0%. 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.

Catholic Distance University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 82 undergraduate students at CDU, with 8 being full-time and 74 being part-time.

There are also 91 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 8 full-time undergraduates at CDU, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Catholic Distance University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Online Learning at Catholic Distance University

There are 3 bachelor’s degree and 3 master’s degree programs available online at CDU. In 2020-2021, 173 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at CDU has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 16th most popular in West Virginia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of CDU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Catholic Distance University was 3.8%. This is the #810 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at CDU regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.