Fort Lewis College Overview

Fort Lewis College is a public institution located in Durango, Colorado. The location of FLC is a good match for students who are interested in living in a college town while they pursue their degree.

What Is Fort Lewis College Known For?

• The highest award offered at FLC is the master's degree.
• During a recent academic cycle, 75% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from FLC with a bachelor's degree make about $46,349 a year. That's 14% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Where Is Fort Lewis College?

Contact details for FLC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301-3999
Phone:	970-247-7010
Website:	fortlewis.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/FortLewis
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/FLCDurango

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How Do I Get Into FLC?

You can apply to FLC online at: https://www.fortlewis.edu/admission/first-year-students/first-year-students-home

Admission Requirements for FLC

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into FLC?

FLC has the high acceptance rate of 91%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 41% of accepted students are men and 59% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 90%, and the acceptance rate for women is 92%.

Average Test Scores

About 19% of students accepted to FLC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 640. Math scores were between 530 and 620.

FLC received ACT scores from 9% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 16 and 25. Math scores were between 16 and 0. Composite scores were between 18 and 25.

Can I Afford Fort Lewis College?

The overall average net price of FLC is $23,123. 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 FLC, approximately 36% of students took out student loans averaging $5,482 a year. That adds up to $21,928 over four years for those students.

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Fort Lewis College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,359 undergraduate students at FLC, with 2,904 being full-time and 455 being part-time.

There are also 110 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,904 full-time undergraduates at FLC, 46% are male and 54% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	10
Black or African American	22
Hispanic or Latino	385
White	1,150
International Students	24
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,313

Geographic Diversity

Colorado students aren't the only ones who study at Fort Lewis College. At this time, 40 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 16 countries are represented at FLC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, United Kingdom, and Germany.

Fort Lewis College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Undergraduate Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business/Commerce	0	0	77	0	0	77
General Psychology	0	0	55	0	0	55
Health & Physical Education	0	0	50	0	0	50
Natural Resources Conservation	0	0	46	0	0	46
General Biology	0	0	27	0	0	27
Fine & Studio Arts	0	0	27	0	0	27
General Engineering	0	0	26	0	0	26
General English Literature	0	0	25	0	0	25
Health Sciences & Services	21	2	0	0	0	23
Geography & Cartography	20	0	0	0	0	20
Sociology	0	0	20	0	0	20
Anthropology	0	0	19	0	0	19
Public Health	0	0	18	0	0	18
Educational Administration	0	0	0	1	16	17
Accounting	0	0	14	0	0	14
Geological & Earth Sciences	0	0	14	0	0	14
Economics	0	0	14	0	0	14
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	0	13	0	0	13
Chemistry	0	0	13	0	0	13
Criminology	0	0	13	0	0	13
Information Technology	0	0	12	0	0	12
General Education	0	0	0	0	11	11
Agricultural Production	4	6	0	0	0	10
Marketing	0	0	10	0	0	10
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	10	0	0	0	0	10
Special Education	0	0	0	0	9	9
Outdoor Education	0	0	9	0	0	9
Political Science & Government	0	0	7	0	0	7
Teaching English or French	0	0	0	0	6	6
Drama & Theater Arts	0	0	6	0	0	6
Music	0	0	6	0	0	6
Other Education	0	0	5	0	0	5
Computer Engineering	0	0	5	0	0	5
Ethnic Studies	0	0	5	0	0	5
History	0	0	4	0	0	4
Entrepreneurial Studies	0	0	2	0	0	2
Hospitality Management	2	0	0	0	0	2
Mathematics	0	0	1	0	0	1
Multicultural & Diversity Studies	0	0	1	0	0	1
Philosophy	0	0	1	0	0	1
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physics	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	57	8	545	1	42	653

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.