Granite State College Overview

Granite State College is a public institution located in Concord, New Hampshire. The location of GSC is a good match for students who are interested in living in a college town while they pursue their degree.

What Is Granite State College Known For?

• The student loan default rate at GSC is 1%, 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 GSC.
• For the <nil> academic year, 12% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from GSC makes roughly $48,686 a year. This is 19% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is Granite State College?

Contact details for GSC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	25 Hall Street, Concord, NH 03301-3471
Phone:	603-228-3000
Website:	www.granite.edu

How Do I Get Into GSC?

You can apply to GSC online at: https://www.granite.edu/become-a-student/apply-now/

Granite State College has an open admissions policy, so you don't have to worry about getting into the school if you have a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Can I Afford Granite State College?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At GSC, approximately 78% of students took out student loans averaging $3,343 a year. That adds up to $13,372 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at GSC is 1.1%. 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.

Granite State College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,413 undergraduate students at GSC, with 686 being full-time and 727 being part-time.

There are also 279 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 686 full-time undergraduates at GSC, 28% are male and 72% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	13
Black or African American	31
Hispanic or Latino	35
White	579
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	28

Geographic Diversity

New Hampshire students aren't the only ones who study at Granite State College. At this time, 14 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Online Learning at Granite State College

There are 114 bachelor’s degree and 18 master’s degree programs available online at GSC. In 2020-2021, 1,689 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 2nd most popular in New Hampshire for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of GSC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Granite State College was 2.8%. This is the #820 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at GSC 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.