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 student loan default rate at Emerson is 2%, 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 master's degree is the highest award offered at Emerson.
• For the <nil> academic year, 33% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Emerson with a bachelor's degree make about $58,491 a year. That's 43% 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

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	Recommended
High School Rank	Recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Required
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Emerson?

You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to Emerson. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 45%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 28% of accepted students are men and 72% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 44%, and the acceptance rate for women is 46%.

Average Test Scores

About 28% 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 620 and 710. Math scores were between 580 and 690.

Emerson received ACT scores from 12% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 29 and 34. Math scores were between 25 and 29. Composite scores were between 28 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 51% of students took out student loans averaging $12,382 a year. That adds up to $49,528 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Emerson is 1.5%. 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.

Emerson College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 4,117 undergraduate students at Emerson, with 4,053 being full-time and 64 being part-time.

There are also 1,783 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,053 full-time undergraduates at Emerson, 36% are male and 64% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	223
Black or African American	184
Hispanic or Latino	482
White	2,288
International Students	624
Other Races/Ethnicities	252

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.

Online Learning at Emerson College

In 2020-2021, 1,534 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of Emerson

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Emerson College was 746.9%. This is the #117 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Emerson 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 McDonald & Gill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.