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?

• Students at FLC have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 2%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at FLC is the master's degree.
• In <nil>, 75% of the faculty were full-time.

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

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into FLC?

With an acceptance rate of 93%, FLC is fairly easy to get into, but you must be sure to submit the required materials.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 92%, and the acceptance rate for women is 93%.

Average Test Scores

About 24% 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 490 and 620. Math scores were between 480 and 580.

FLC received ACT scores from 24% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 14 and 23. Math scores were between 16 and 23. Composite scores were between 16 and 23.

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 34% of students took out student loans averaging $5,680 a year. That adds up to $22,720 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at FLC is 2.3%. 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.

Fort Lewis College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,449 undergraduate students at FLC, with 2,914 being full-time and 535 being part-time.

There are also 118 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,914 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	11
Black or African American	27
Hispanic or Latino	404
White	1,111
International Students	27
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,334

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.

Online Learning at Fort Lewis College

In 2020-2021, 1,410 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 28th most popular in Colorado for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of FLC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Fort Lewis College was 329.5%. This is the #208 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at FLC 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

More about our data sources and methodologies.