Hastings College Overview

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

What Is Hastings College Known For?

• The 1% student loan default rate at Hastings is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• The highest award offered at Hastings is the master's degree.
• In <nil>, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Hastings makes roughly $49,768 a year. This is 22% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.
• 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

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	Neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	Neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	Neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	Recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Hastings?

With an acceptance rate of 71%, Hastings may not be as selective as some schools, but you should not take admittance for granted. Be sure to submit the best application you can.

Approximately 43% of accepted students are men and 57% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 67%, and the acceptance rate for women is 74%.

Can I Afford Hastings College?

The overall average net price of Hastings is $26,990. 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 Hastings, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $7,246 a year. That adds up to $28,984 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Hastings is 1.0%. 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.

Hastings College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 924 undergraduate students at Hastings, with 919 being full-time and 5 being part-time.

There are also 22 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 919 full-time undergraduates at Hastings, 46% are male and 54% 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	41
Hispanic or Latino	101
White	635
International Students	51
Other Races/Ethnicities	87

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 2020-2021, 206 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.

This is the #1,689 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Hastings regardless of major.

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.