Emerson College Overview

Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Emerson College is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of Emerson is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is Emerson College Known For?

• The master's degree is the highest award offered at Emerson.
• In a recent academic period30% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Emerson with a bachelor's degree make about $62,832 a year. That's 54% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• The average Emerson student graduates in 4.1 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Emerson College?

Contact details for Emerson are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116-4624
Phone:	617-824-8500
Website:	www.emerson.edu

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How Do I Get Into Emerson?

You can apply to Emerson online at: www.commonapp.org/

Admission Requirements for Emerson

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Emerson?

Emerson has a fairly low acceptance rate of 43%, which makes it more selective than most schools. Take time to make sure you submit all the requested materials and you prepare the application in full. You don't want to get denied right off the bat due to an incomplete application!

Approximately 26% of accepted students are men and 74% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 41%, and the acceptance rate for women is 44%.

Average Test Scores

About 22% of students accepted to Emerson submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 650 and 730. Math scores were between 600 and 700.

Emerson received ACT scores from 8% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 30 and 35. Math scores were between 26 and 0. Composite scores were between 30 and 32.

Can I Afford Emerson College?

The overall average net price of Emerson is $59,558. 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 Emerson, approximately 53% of students took out student loans averaging $12,551 a year. That adds up to $50,204 over four years for those students.

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Emerson College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,708 undergraduate students at Emerson, with 3,626 being full-time and 82 being part-time.

There are also 1,407 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,626 full-time undergraduates at Emerson, 37% are male and 63% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	186
Black or African American	147
Hispanic or Latino	454
White	2,126
International Students	480
Other Races/Ethnicities	233

Geographic Diversity

Massachusetts students aren't the only ones who study at Emerson College. At this time, 41 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 70 countries are represented at Emerson. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Taiwan, and India.

Emerson College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Communication Sciences	9	309	318
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	298	0	298
Writing Studies	92	67	159
Drama & Theater Arts	102	21	123
Journalism	68	17	85
Marketing	41	35	76
Public Relations & Advertising	44	11	55
General Business/Commerce	50	0	50
Communication & Media Studies	24	17	41
Publishing	0	33	33
Teacher Education Subject Specific	11	22	33
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	19	0	19
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	1	6	7
Music	2	0	2
Business/Corporate Communications	0	0	0
Graphic Communications	0	0	0
TOTAL	761	538	1,299

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 McDonald & Gill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.