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?

• Students at Nichols have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 4%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the master's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Nichols.
• For the <nil> academic year, 35% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Nichols makes roughly $57,385 a year. This is 41% 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

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	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Recommended
College Prep Program	Recommended
Recommendations	Recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Recommended

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 69% of accepted students are men and 31% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 84%, and the acceptance rate for women is 87%.

Average Test Scores

About 13% 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 480 and 570. Math scores were between 490 and 590.

Nichols received ACT scores from 2% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 20 and 26.

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 93% of students took out student loans averaging $9,522 a year. That adds up to $38,088 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Nichols is 3.7%. 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.

Nichols College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,207 undergraduate students at Nichols, with 1,111 being full-time and 96 being part-time.

There are also 227 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,111 full-time undergraduates at Nichols, 69% are male and 31% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	9
Black or African American	97
Hispanic or Latino	124
White	798
International Students	37
Other Races/Ethnicities	46

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.

Online Learning at Nichols College

There are 6 bachelor’s degree and 12 master’s degree programs available online at Nichols. In 2020-2021, 484 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 11th most popular in Massachusetts for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Nichols

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Nichols College was 108.3%. This is the #402 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Nichols 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

More about our data sources and methodologies.