Hastings College Overview

Located in Hastings, Nebraska, Hastings College is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Hastings is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Hastings College Known For?

• Although it may not be available for every major, the master's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Hastings.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Hastings with a bachelor's degree make about $44,400 a year. That's 9% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• It takes the average Hastings student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Hastings College?

Contact details for Hastings are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	710 N Turner Ave, Hastings, NE 68901
Phone:	402-463-2402
Website:	www.hastings.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/hastings.edu
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/HC_Advantage

How Do I Get Into Hastings?

You can apply to Hastings online at: https://www.hastings.edu/admissions/apply-to-hastings/

Admission Requirements for Hastings

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Hastings?

With an acceptance rate of 68%, Hastings does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 48% of accepted students are men and 52% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 67%, and the acceptance rate for women is 70%.

Average Test Scores

About 11% of students accepted to Hastings submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 480 and 570. Math scores were between 490 and 580.

Hastings received ACT scores from 91% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 19 and 25. Math scores were between 18 and 25. Composite scores were between 20 and 25.

Can I Afford Hastings College?

The overall average net price of Hastings is $24,397. 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

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 Hastings, approximately 75% of students took out student loans averaging $7,311 a year. That adds up to $29,244 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Hastings is 6.3%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Hastings College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,048 undergraduate students at Hastings, with 950 being full-time and 98 being part-time.

There are also 32 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 950 full-time undergraduates at Hastings, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	4
Black or African American	46
Hispanic or Latino	94
White	730
International Students	35
Other Races/Ethnicities	41

Geographic Diversity

Nebraska students aren't the only ones who study at Hastings College. At this time, 16 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 19 countries are represented at Hastings. The most popular countries sending students to the school are United Kingdom, Canada, and Brazil.

Online Learning at Hastings College

In 2017-2018, 327 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Hastings College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Teacher Education Subject Specific	20	12	32
Business Administration & Management	22	0	22
General Biology	19	0	19
Teacher Education Grade Specific	17	1	18
Marketing	15	0	15
General Psychology	15	0	15
Health & Physical Education	14	0	14
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	13	0	13
Sociology	12	0	12
General Business/Commerce	10	0	10
Journalism	10	0	10
Criminology	9	0	9
General English Literature	8	0	8
Health & Medical Administrative Services	7	0	7
History	7	0	7
Accounting	6	0	6
Special Education	6	0	6
Drama & Theater Arts	6	0	6
Recreation Administration	5	0	5
Physics	5	0	5
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	4	0	4
Economics	4	0	4
Music	4	0	4
Religious Studies	3	0	3
Political Science & Government	3	0	3
Hospitality Management	2	0	2
Human Resource Management	2	0	2
Public Relations & Advertising	2	0	2
Publishing	2	0	2
Computer Science	2	0	2
Mathematics	2	0	2
Communication & Media Studies	1	0	1
Romance Languages	1	0	1
Philosophy	1	0	1
Fine & Studio Arts	1	0	1
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	0	0	0
Zoology	0	0	0
Computer Software & Applications	0	0	0
General Education	0	0	0
Teaching English or French	0	0	0
Germanic Languages	0	0	0
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	0	0	0
Other Statistics	0	0	0
Biopsychology	0	0	0
Chemistry	0	0	0
TOTAL	260	13	273

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.