Hood College Overview

Hood College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Frederick, Maryland. Frederick is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Hood College Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at Hood 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 doctor's degree is the highest award offered at Hood.
• In 2019-2020, 42% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Hood bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $51,779 a year. That's about 27% more than their peers at other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.2 years for students from Hood to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Hood College Rankings

Hood is ranked #324 out of 2,018 schools in the nation for overall quality on our 2023 Best Colleges list.

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Hood has been awarded the following overall awards by our latest rankings.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#46	Best Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Hood.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#2	Best Value General Biology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#4	Best Value Biological & Biomedical Sciences Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#4	Best Educational Administration Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#8	Best Ecology & Systematics Biology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#9	Best Value Visual & Performing Arts Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#16	Best Education Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#17	Best General Biology Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#20	Best Value Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#31	Best Biological & Biomedical Sciences Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#56	Best Special Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Hood has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#2	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	College Factual
#4	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for General Biology	College Factual
#4	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	College Factual
#9	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Biological & Biomedical Sciences	College Factual
#70	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Education	College Factual
#100	Best Teaching Schools	Teaching Degree Search

Where Is Hood College?

Contact details for Hood are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	401 Rosemont Ave, Frederick, MD 21701
Phone:	301-663-3131
Website:	www.hood.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/hoodcollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/hood_college

How Do I Get Into Hood?

You can apply to Hood online at: www.hood.edu/apply/

Admission Requirements for Hood

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	considered but not required
High School Rank	considered but not required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	recommended
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Hood?

Hood has an acceptance rate of 71%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 34% of accepted students are men and 66% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 66%, and the acceptance rate for women is 75%.

Can I Afford Hood College?

The overall average net price of Hood is $34,507. 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

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Hood, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $8,772 a year. That adds up to $35,088 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Hood is 2.7%. 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.

Hood College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,187 undergraduate students at Hood, with 1,132 being full-time and 55 being part-time.

There are also 855 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,132 full-time undergraduates at Hood, 36% are male and 64% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	35
Black or African American	218
Hispanic or Latino	137
White	645
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	81

Geographic Diversity

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

Over 36 countries are represented at Hood. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal.

Online Learning at Hood College

In 2019-2020, 1,118 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 21st most popular in Maryland for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of Hood

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Hood College was 454.3%. This is the #169 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Hood regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of Hood majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Teacher Education Grade Specific	44%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Hood ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Hood.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Information Technology	#1
Computer & Information Sciences	#10

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%.

Hood College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	0	42	2	22	7	73
Educational Administration	0	0	43	29	0	72
Information Technology	0	0	28	28	0	56
General Biology	0	15	0	29	0	44
Computer Science	0	17	0	10	0	27
Curriculum & Instruction	0	0	5	15	0	20
Mental & Social Health Services	0	0	0	16	0	16
Nursing	0	16	0	0	0	16
Criminal Justice & Corrections	0	16	0	0	0	16
General Psychology	0	15	0	0	0	15
Political Science & Government	0	15	0	0	0	15
General English Literature	0	14	0	0	0	14
Fine & Studio Arts	0	8	1	5	0	14
Special Education	0	13	0	0	0	13
Computer Information Systems	0	0	0	12	0	12
Romance Languages	8	4	0	0	0	12
History	0	12	0	0	0	12
Mathematics	0	12	0	0	0	12
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	0	0	0	11	0	11
Social Work	0	11	0	0	0	11
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	7	0	2	0	9
Communication & Media Studies	0	8	0	0	0	8
Public Relations & Advertising	0	8	0	0	0	8
Sociology	0	8	0	0	0	8
Information Science	0	0	7	0	0	7
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences (Other)	0	0	0	7	0	7
Accounting	0	6	0	0	0	6
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	0	0	6	0	6
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	0	0	0	5	0	5
International Studies	0	5	0	0	0	5
Economics	0	5	0	0	0	5
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	0	0	4	0	4
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	0	0	4	0	0	4
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	0	3	0	0	0	3
Natural Resources Conservation	0	2	0	0	0	2
Area Studies	0	1	0	0	0	1
Philosophy	0	1	0	0	0	1
Chemistry	0	1	0	0	0	1
Music	0	1	0	0	0	1
Finance & Financial Management	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic Languages	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other Health Professions	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computational Science	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gerontology	0	0	0	0	0	0
Religious Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	8	266	90	201	7	572

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 Andrew.Belair under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.