Hesston College Overview

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

What Is Hesston College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Hesston since the student to facuty ratio is 9 to 1.
• The 2% student loan default rate at Hesston 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 bachelor's degree is the highest award offered at Hesston.
• For the <nil> academic year, 53% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Hesston bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $47,693 a year. That's about 17% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Hesston College?

Contact details for Hesston are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	301 South Main, Hesston, KS 67062-2093
Phone:	620-327-4221
Website:	www.hesston.edu

How Do I Get Into Hesston?

You can apply to Hesston online at: www.hesston.edu/admissions/apply/

Hesston College has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford Hesston College?

The overall average net price of Hesston is $27,241. 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 Hesston, approximately 84% of students took out student loans averaging $6,891 a year. That adds up to $27,564 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Hesston is 1.9%. 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.

Hesston College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 331 undergraduate students at Hesston, with 303 being full-time and 28 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 303 full-time undergraduates at Hesston, 45% are male and 55% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	2
Black or African American	20
Hispanic or Latino	43
White	172
International Students	44
Other Races/Ethnicities	22

Over 20 countries are represented at Hesston. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, South Korea, and Ethiopia.

Online Learning at Hesston College

In 2020-2021, 85 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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.