Ithaca College Overview

Located in Ithaca, New York, Ithaca College is a private not-for-profit institution. Ithaca is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Ithaca College Known For?

• Students at Ithaca may have an easier time interacting with their teachers since the student to faculty ratio at the school is 10 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at Ithaca is 2%, 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 doctor's degree is the highest award offered at Ithaca.
• For the <nil> academic year, 80% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Ithaca makes roughly $62,403 a year. This is 53% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.
• The average Ithaca student graduates in 4.1 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Ithaca College?

Contact details for Ithaca are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	953 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-7002
Phone:	607-274-3011
Website:	www.ithaca.edu

How Do I Get Into Ithaca?

You can apply to Ithaca online at: www.ithaca.edu/admission/apply/

Admission Requirements for Ithaca

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Ithaca?

Ithaca has an acceptance rate of 78%, 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 43% of accepted students are men and 57% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 79%, and the acceptance rate for women is 77%.

Can I Afford Ithaca College?

The overall average net price of Ithaca is $40,477. 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 Ithaca, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $5,311 a year. That adds up to $21,244 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Ithaca is 1.5%. 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.

Ithaca College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 4,818 undergraduate students at Ithaca, with 4,719 being full-time and 99 being part-time.

There are also 421 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,719 full-time undergraduates at Ithaca, 45% are male and 55% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	177
Black or African American	268
Hispanic or Latino	489
White	3,397
International Students	113
Other Races/Ethnicities	275

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Ithaca College. At this time, 41 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 58 countries are represented at Ithaca. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Vietnam, and India.

Online Learning at Ithaca College

In 2020-2021, 1,473 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 90th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Ithaca

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Ithaca College was 42,812.5%. This is the #7 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Ithaca 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
• Image Credit: By Mr Senseless under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.