Elmira College Overview

Located in Elmira, New York, Elmira College is a private not-for-profit institution. Elmira is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Elmira College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Elmira since the student to facuty ratio is 7 to 1.
• The highest award offered at Elmira is the master's degree.
• During a recent academic cycle, 47% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Elmira with a bachelor's degree make about $57,550 a year. That's 41% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• The average Elmira student graduates in 4.1 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Elmira College?

Contact details for Elmira are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	One Park Place, Elmira, NY 14901
Phone:	607-735-1800
Website:	www.elmira.edu

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How Do I Get Into Elmira?

You can apply to Elmira online at: https://apply.elmira.edu/apply/

Admission Requirements for Elmira

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	5
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	1
Recommendations	5
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Elmira?

Elmira has the high acceptance rate of 96%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 33% of accepted students are men and 67% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 94%, and the acceptance rate for women is 97%.

Average Test Scores

About 17% of students accepted to Elmira submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 553 and 630. Math scores were between 565 and 642.

Elmira received ACT scores from 1% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Elmira College?

The overall average net price of Elmira is $22,827. 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 Elmira, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $9,038 a year. That adds up to $36,152 over four years for those students.

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Elmira College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 715 undergraduate students at Elmira, with 682 being full-time and 33 being part-time.

There are also 53 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 682 full-time undergraduates at Elmira, 33% are male and 67% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	11
Black or African American	32
Hispanic or Latino	41
White	520
International Students	30
Other Races/Ethnicities	48

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Elmira College. At this time, 20 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 23 countries are represented at Elmira. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, Japan, and Bahamas.

Elmira College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Nursing	0	36	0	36
Business Administration & Management	0	22	6	28
Human Services	15	11	0	26
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	7	12	19
General Psychology	0	17	0	17
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	5	10	15
Special Education	0	13	0	13
General Biology	0	9	0	9
General Education	1	0	8	9
Accounting	0	5	0	5
Communication Sciences	0	5	0	5
Biological & Physical Science	0	5	0	5
Criminal Justice & Corrections	0	5	0	5
Mathematics	0	4	0	4
Other Social Sciences	0	4	0	4
General English Literature	0	3	0	3
History	0	3	0	3
Political Science & Government	0	3	0	3
Other Education	0	2	0	2
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	0	2	0	2
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	2	0	2
Drama & Theater Arts	0	2	0	2
Fine & Studio Arts	0	2	0	2
Chemistry	0	1	0	1
Finance & Financial Management	0	0	0	0
Human Resource Management	0	0	0	0
Area Studies	0	0	0	0
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	0	0	0	0
Health & Medical Administrative Services	0	0	0	0
Other Philosophy & Religious Studies	0	0	0	0
Geological & Earth Sciences	0	0	0	0
Economics	0	0	0	0
General Social Sciences	0	0	0	0
International Relations & National Security	0	0	0	0
Sociology & Anthropology	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	16	168	36	220

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 Lvklock under License

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