Mills College Overview

Located in Oakland, California, Mills College is a private not-for-profit institution. Oakland is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Mills College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Mills since the student to facuty ratio is 8 to 1.
• The 4% student loan default rate at Mills 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 Mills is the doctor's degree.
• For the 2019-2020 academic year, 48% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Mills with a bachelor's degree make about $58,594 a year. That's 44% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• The average Mills student graduates in 4.2 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Mills College Rankings

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.

Program Level Awards

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

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#1	Most Popular Managerial Economics Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Where Is Mills College?

Contact details for Mills are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	5000 Macarthur Blvd, Oakland, CA 94613
Phone:	510-430-2255
Website:	https://www.mills.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/MillsCollege
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/MillsCollege

How Do I Get Into Mills?

You can apply to Mills online at: https://admissions.mills.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for Mills

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Mills?

Mills has the high acceptance rate of 91%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 0% of accepted students are men and 100% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 50%, and the acceptance rate for women is 91%.

Average Test Scores

About 42% of students accepted to Mills submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 560 and 663. Math scores were between 495 and 613.

Mills received ACT scores from 16% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 22 and 32. Math scores were between 18 and 25. Composite scores were between 20 and 30.

Can I Afford Mills College?

The overall average net price of Mills is $29,228. 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 Mills, approximately 50% of students took out student loans averaging $10,451 a year. That adds up to $41,804 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Mills is 3.5%. 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.

Mills College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 613 undergraduate students at Mills, with 566 being full-time and 47 being part-time.

There are also 348 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 566 full-time undergraduates at Mills, 1% are male and 99% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	47
Black or African American	64
Hispanic or Latino	199
White	188
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	65

Geographic Diversity

California students aren't the only ones who study at Mills College. At this time, 20 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 17 countries are represented at Mills. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Japan, and India.

Online Learning at Mills College

In 2019-2020, 951 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Mills College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Undergraduate Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Educational Administration	0	0	4	27	8	39
Fine & Studio Arts	0	22	0	12	0	34
Public Policy	0	22	0	9	0	31
General Education	0	2	0	19	0	21
Health/Medical Prep Programs	6	0	15	0	0	21
Business/Managerial Economics	0	1	0	18	0	19
General Psychology	0	16	0	0	0	16
General English Literature	0	15	0	0	0	15
Human Development & Family Studies	0	12	0	2	0	14
Sociology	0	13	0	0	0	13
General Biology	0	11	0	0	0	11
Writing Studies	0	0	0	11	0	11
Ethnic Studies	0	10	0	0	0	10
Computer Information Systems	0	2	1	6	0	9
Dance	0	2	0	7	0	9
Music	0	3	0	6	0	9
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	0	8	0	0	8
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	0	7	0	0	0	7
Business Administration & Management	0	6	0	0	0	6
Biopsychology	0	6	0	0	0	6
Political Science & Government	0	6	0	0	0	6
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	0	2	3	0	5
Other Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies	0	2	0	3	0	5
Economics	0	4	0	1	0	5
Communication & Media Studies	0	4	0	0	0	4
Special Education	0	0	4	0	0	4
History	0	4	0	0	0	4
Drama & Theater Arts	0	4	0	0	0	4
Literature	0	0	0	3	0	3
Natural Resources Conservation	0	3	0	0	0	3
Child Development & Psychology	0	0	0	3	0	3
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	2	0	0	0	2
Romance Languages	0	1	0	0	0	1
Mathematics	0	1	0	0	0	1
Systems Theory	0	1	0	0	0	1
International Relations & National Security	0	1	0	0	0	1
Area Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Asian Languages	0	0	0	0	0	0
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	0	0	0	0	0	0
Philosophy	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemistry	0	0	0	0	0	0
Anthropology	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sociology & Anthropology	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	6	183	34	130	8	361

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 Sanfranman59 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.