Eastern Washington University Overview

Eastern Washington University is a public institution located in Cheney, Washington. The surrounding location of Cheney is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Eastern Washington University Known For?

• The 1% student loan default rate at EWU is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• The highest award offered at EWU is the doctor's degree.
• In <nil>, 79% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from EWU with a bachelor's degree make about $55,189 a year. That's 35% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Where Is Eastern Washington University?

Contact details for EWU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	526 5Th Street, Cheney, WA 99004-2496
Phone:	509-359-6200
Website:	www.ewu.edu

How Do I Get Into EWU?

You can apply to EWU online at: www.ewu.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for EWU

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Required
Recommendations	Neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	Neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into EWU?

EWU has the high acceptance rate of 97%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 38% of accepted students are men and 62% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 96%, and the acceptance rate for women is 98%.

Can I Afford Eastern Washington University?

The overall average net price of EWU is $32,067. 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 EWU, approximately 34% of students took out student loans averaging $5,607 a year. That adds up to $22,428 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at EWU is 1.3%. 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.

Eastern Washington University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 8,217 undergraduate students at EWU, with 7,203 being full-time and 1,014 being part-time.

There are also 2,675 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 7,203 full-time undergraduates at EWU, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Eastern Washington University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	185
Black or African American	257
Hispanic or Latino	1,360
White	3,992
International Students	71
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,338

Geographic Diversity

Washington students aren't the only ones who study at Eastern Washington University. At this time, 18 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 46 countries are represented at EWU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, Japan, and China.

Online Learning at Eastern Washington University

In 2020-2021, 6,013 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 5th most popular in Washington for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of EWU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Eastern Washington University was 155.5%. This is the #328 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at EWU 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
• Image Credit: By Ian Poellet under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.