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?

• The student loan default rate at QC 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 QC is the post-master's certificate.
• In 2017-2018, 38% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from QC makes roughly $48,200 a year. This is 18% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Queens College Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at QC.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#2	Best Value Teaching English or French Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Best Value Middle Eastern Semitic Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Best Value East Asian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#2	Best Value Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#5	Best Teaching English or French Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#30	Best History Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#30	Best History Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#43	Best Value History Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#54	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#111	Best Value Psychology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards QC has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#1	Best Teaching English or French Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#1	Best School Librarian/School Library Media Specialist Schools	College Factual
#1	Best Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education Master’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#1	Best Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Bachelor’s Degree Schools	College Factual
#76	Best Teacher Education Subject Specific Schools	College Factual
#302	Best Health Professions Schools	College Factual

Where Is Queens College?

Contact details for QC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	65-30 Kissena Blvd, Queens, NY 11367
Phone:	718-997-5000
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/QueensCollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/QC_News

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	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into QC?

With an acceptance rate of 53%, 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 42% of accepted students are men and 58% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 51%, and the acceptance rate for women is 55%.

Average Test Scores

About 92% of students accepted to QC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 510 and 590. Math scores were between 530 and 600.

QC received ACT scores from 8% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 22 and 29. Math scores were between 21 and 26. Composite scores were between 22 and 27.

Can I Afford Queens College?

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 8% of students took out student loans averaging $5,788 a year. That adds up to $23,152 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at QC is 4.4%. 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.

Queens College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 16,702 undergraduate students at QC, with 12,479 being full-time and 4,223 being part-time.

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.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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.

Online Learning at Queens College

In 2019-2020, 19,648 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 80th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of QC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Queens College was 3,798.1%. This is the #59 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at QC regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at QC ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at QC.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Special Education	#10
Education	#13

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%.

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	641	0	11	652
Accounting	451	0	109	560
Teacher Education Subject Specific	127	107	172	406
Economics	383	0	0	383
Computer Science	272	0	16	288
Teacher Education Grade Specific	113	10	122	245
Sociology	205	0	0	205
General English Literature	126	0	25	151
Political Science & Government	118	0	0	118
Library & Information Science	0	0	117	117
Communication & Media Studies	110	0	6	116
History	92	0	24	116
Design & Applied Arts	102	0	0	102
Communication Sciences	78	0	16	94
General Biology	84	0	5	89
Mathematics	69	0	17	86
Teaching English or French	24	8	52	84
Urban Studies	37	0	36	73
Special Education	0	4	62	66
Finance & Financial Management	63	0	0	63
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	61	0	0	61
Music	30	3	28	61
Multilingual Education	0	54	5	59
Educational Administration	0	39	15	54
Health & Physical Education	46	0	8	54
Fine & Studio Arts	52	0	0	52
General Family & Consumer Sciences	49	0	0	49
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	0	44	44
Anthropology	39	0	0	39
Natural Resources Conservation	32	0	0	32
Mental & Social Health Services	0	0	30	30
Romance Languages	22	0	5	27
Drama & Theater Arts	22	0	0	22
Physics	11	0	9	20
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	19	0	0	19
Statistics	0	0	18	18
International Business	17	0	0	17
Philosophy	15	0	2	17
Writing Studies	0	0	16	16
Geological & Earth Sciences	11	0	4	15
Student Counseling	0	0	14	14
East Asian Languages	13	0	0	13
Area Studies	12	0	0	12
Ethnic Studies	11	0	0	11
Chemistry	10	0	1	11
Human Resource Management	10	0	0	10
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	2	2	5	9
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	9	0	0	9
Interdisciplinary Studies	6	0	0	6
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	0	0	3	3
Religious Studies	3	0	0	3
Classical Languages & Literature	2	0	0	2
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	0	2	2
Germanic Languages	1	0	0	1
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	1	0	0	1
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	1	0	0	1
Instructional Media Design	0	0	0	0
Foreign Language, Literature & Linguistics (Other)	0	0	0	0
Public Health	0	0	0	0
Biological & Physical Science	0	0	0	0
Data Analytics	0	0	0	0
Thanatology	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	3,602	227	999	4,828

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.