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Queens College Overview

Located in Queens, New York, Queens College is a public institution. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

What Is Queens College Known For?

3,176 Undergraduate Awards
$31,142 Avg Cost After Aid
69% Acceptance Rate
  • The highest award offered at QC is the post-master's certificate.
  • In a recent academic period42% of the faculty were full-time.
  • A student who earns a bachelor's degree from QC makes roughly $62,763 a year. This is 54% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is Queens College?

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Contact details for QC are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY 11367
Phone: 718-997-5000
Website: www.qc.cuny.edu

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How Do I Get Into QC?

You can apply to QC online at: www2.cuny.edu/admissions/apply-to-cuny/

Admission Requirements for QC

Submission Required?
High School GPA 1
High School Rank 3
High School Transcript 1
College Prep Program 1
Recommendations 1
SAT or ACT Scores 3
TOEFL 1

How Hard Is It To Get Into QC?

69% Acceptance Rate
59% Of Accepted Are Women
With an acceptance rate of 69%, QC does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 41% of accepted students are men and 59% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 64%, and the acceptance rate for women is 74%.

Can I Afford Queens College?

$31,142 Net Price
7% Take Out Loans
The overall average net price of QC is $31,142. 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

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 QC, approximately 7% of students took out student loans averaging $5,089 a year. That adds up to $20,356 over four years for those students.

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Queens College Undergraduate Student Diversity

12,479 Full-Time Undergraduates
54% Women
73% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 16,702 undergraduate students at QC, with 12,479 being full-time and 4,223 being part-time.

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There are also 2,998 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 12,479 full-time undergraduates at QC, 46% are male and 54% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 3,884
Black or African American 1,057
Hispanic or Latino 3,662
White 2,822
International Students 596
Other Races/Ethnicities 458

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Queens College. At this time, 8 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 170 countries are represented at QC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, South Korea, and India.

Queens College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major Bachelor’s Graduate Certificate Master’s TOTAL
General Psychology 662 0 18 680
Teacher Education Subject Specific 108 140 198 446
Accounting 238 0 93 331
Computer Science 289 0 16 305
Teacher Education Grade Specific 183 9 98 290
Economics 230 0 0 230
Sociology 170 0 0 170
General English Literature 104 0 18 122
Design & Applied Arts 120 0 0 120
Special Education 0 42 65 107
Political Science & Government 102 0 0 102
General Biology 93 0 7 100
Finance & Financial Management 93 0 0 93
History 66 0 21 87
Library & Information Science 0 1 85 86
Communication & Media Studies 78 0 4 82
Communication Sciences 67 0 14 81
Mathematics 61 0 12 73
Teaching English or French 5 10 57 72
Music 24 3 31 58
Fine & Studio Arts 52 0 3 55
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 0 4 50 54
Urban Studies 36 0 18 54
Health & Physical Education 45 0 0 45
Romance Languages 31 0 12 43
Natural Resources Conservation 39 0 0 39
General Family & Consumer Sciences 33 0 0 33
Neurobiology & Neurosciences 20 0 12 32
International Business 32 0 0 32
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services 30 0 0 30
Anthropology 26 0 0 26
Drama & Theater Arts 26 0 0 26
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 23 0 0 23
Student Counseling 0 0 19 19
Linguistics & Comparative Literature 17 0 1 18
Statistics 0 0 18 18
Educational Administration 0 1 16 17
Nutrition Science 0 0 17 17
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 2 1 13 16
East Asian Languages 16 0 0 16
Mental & Social Health Services 0 0 16 16
Philosophy 11 2 3 16
Geological & Earth Sciences 8 0 7 15
Physics 7 0 7 14
Multilingual Education 0 10 0 10
Writing Studies 0 0 8 8
Area Studies 8 0 0 8
Chemistry 7 0 1 8
Public Relations & Advertising 4 0 0 4
Human Resource Management 3 0 0 3
Ethnic Studies 2 0 0 2
Food, Nutrition & Related Services 2 0 0 2
Classical Languages & Literature 2 0 0 2
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages 1 0 0 1
Management Information Systems 0 0 0 0
Taxation 0 0 0 0
Instructional Media Design 0 0 0 0
Human Development & Family Studies 0 0 0 0
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other) 0 0 0 0
Germanic Languages 0 0 0 0
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages 0 0 0 0
Public Health 0 0 0 0
Liberal Arts General Studies 0 0 0 0
Biological & Physical Science 0 0 0 0
Interdisciplinary Studies 0 0 0 0
Religious Studies 0 0 0 0
Child Development & Psychology 0 0 0 0
General Social Sciences 0 0 0 0
Other Social Sciences 0 0 0 0
Other Visual Art 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 3,176 223 958 4,357

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.

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