Nichols College Overview

Nichols College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Dudley, Massachusetts. Nichols is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is Nichols College Known For?

• Although it may not be available for every major, the master's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Nichols.
• In a recent academic period39% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Nichols makes roughly $58,063 a year. This is 42% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.
• It takes the average Nichols student 4.1 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Nichols College?

Contact details for Nichols are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	Center Rd, Dudley, MA 01571-5000
Phone:	800-470-3379
Website:	www.nichols.edu

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How Do I Get Into Nichols?

You can apply to Nichols online at: https://www.nichols.edu/admission/requirements

Admission Requirements for Nichols

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	3
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	5
Recommendations	1
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Nichols?

Nichols has an acceptance rate of 85%, 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 67% of accepted students are men and 33% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 84%, and the acceptance rate for women is 87%.

Average Test Scores

About 21% of students accepted to Nichols submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 470 and 590. Math scores were between 475 and 590.

Can I Afford Nichols College?

The overall average net price of Nichols is $32,270. 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 Nichols, approximately 91% of students took out student loans averaging $7,875 a year. That adds up to $31,500 over four years for those students.

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Nichols College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,279 undergraduate students at Nichols, with 1,152 being full-time and 127 being part-time.

There are also 239 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,152 full-time undergraduates at Nichols, 66% are male and 34% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	12
Black or African American	79
Hispanic or Latino	113
White	874
International Students	25
Other Races/Ethnicities	49

Geographic Diversity

Massachusetts students aren't the only ones who study at Nichols College. At this time, 15 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 18 countries are represented at Nichols. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, Brazil, and Netherlands.

Nichols College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	0	17	82	99
General Business/Commerce	9	48	0	57
Accounting	0	21	26	47
Health & Physical Education	0	47	0	47
Criminal Justice & Corrections	0	30	0	30
General Psychology	0	26	0	26
Marketing	0	24	0	24
Homeland Security	0	0	20	20
Finance & Financial Management	0	16	0	16
Hospitality Management	0	6	0	6
Human Resource Management	0	6	0	6
International Business	0	6	0	6
Business/Managerial Economics	0	4	0	4
Data Analytics	0	3	0	3
Real Estate	0	1	0	1
History	0	1	0	1
Public Relations & Advertising	0	0	0	0
General English Literature	0	0	0	0
Economics	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	9	256	128	393

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.