Lafayette College Overview

Lafayette College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Easton, Pennsylvania. Easton is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Lafayette College Known For?

• Students at Lafayette may have an easier time interacting with their teachers since the student to faculty ratio at the school is 10 to 1.
• The 1% student loan default rate at Lafayette 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 Lafayette.
• For the <nil> academic year, 84% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Lafayette with a bachelor's degree make about $94,200 a year. That's 131% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.1 years for students from Lafayette to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Lafayette College?

Contact details for Lafayette are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	High St, Easton, PA 18042-1768
Phone:	610-330-5000
Website:	www.lafayette.edu

How Do I Get Into Lafayette?

You can apply to Lafayette online at: https://apply.commonapp.org/login?ma=138

Admission Requirements for Lafayette

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Lafayette?

Lafayette has a fairly low acceptance rate of 41%, which makes it more selective than most schools. Take time to make sure you submit all the requested materials and you prepare the application in full. You don't want to get denied right off the bat due to an incomplete application!

Approximately 50% of accepted students are men and 50% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 40%, and the acceptance rate for women is 42%.

Average Test Scores

About 28% of students accepted to Lafayette submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 640 and 720. Math scores were between 660 and 740.

Lafayette received ACT scores from 13% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 30 and 35. Math scores were between 27 and 32. Composite scores were between 30 and 33.

Can I Afford Lafayette College?

The overall average net price of Lafayette is $51,425. 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 Lafayette, approximately 29% of students took out student loans averaging $9,937 a year. That adds up to $39,748 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Lafayette is 1.1%. 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.

Lafayette College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,725 undergraduate students at Lafayette, with 2,706 being full-time and 19 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,706 full-time undergraduates at Lafayette, 51% are male and 49% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	112
Black or African American	140
Hispanic or Latino	212
White	1,854
International Students	214
Other Races/Ethnicities	174

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Lafayette College. At this time, 36 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 60 countries are represented at Lafayette. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Vietnam, and India.

Online Learning at Lafayette College

In 2020-2021, 31 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Lafayette 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
• Image Credit: By Shuvaev under License

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