Saint Peter’s University Overview

Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, Saint Peter's University is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

What Is Saint Peter’s University Known For?

• The 4% student loan default rate at Saint Peter's College 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 Saint Peter's College is the doctor's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 36% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Saint Peter's College makes roughly $52,442 a year. This is 29% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.
• It takes the average Saint Peter's College student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Saint Peter’s University?

Contact details for Saint Peter's College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2641 Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07306-5997
Phone:	201-761-7400
Website:	www.saintpeters.edu

How Do I Get Into Saint Peter’s College?

You can apply to Saint Peter’s College online at: gosaintpeters.org/web/index.cfm?&isndsl

Admission Requirements for Saint Peter’s College

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Saint Peter’s College?

With an acceptance rate of 93%, Saint Peter's College is fairly easy to get into, but you must be sure to submit the required materials.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 91%, and the acceptance rate for women is 94%.

Average Test Scores

About 23% of students accepted to Saint Peter's College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 490 and 580. Math scores were between 480 and 570.

Saint Peter's College received ACT scores from 3% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 17 and 28. Math scores were between 16 and 26. Composite scores were between 17 and 28.

Can I Afford Saint Peter’s University?

The overall average net price of Saint Peter's College is $28,837. 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 Saint Peter's College, approximately 41% of students took out student loans averaging $5,605 a year. That adds up to $22,420 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Saint Peter's College 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.

Saint Peter’s University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,134 undergraduate students at Saint Peter's College, with 1,937 being full-time and 197 being part-time.

There are also 875 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,937 full-time undergraduates at Saint Peter's College, 38% are male and 62% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Saint Peter's University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	146
Black or African American	332
Hispanic or Latino	885
White	356
International Students	133
Other Races/Ethnicities	85

Geographic Diversity

New Jersey students aren't the only ones who study at Saint Peter's University. At this time, 17 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 37 countries are represented at Saint Peter's College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, United Kingdom, and Spain.

Online Learning at Saint Peter’s University

In 2020-2021, 1,654 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Saint Peter's College has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 24th most popular in New Jersey for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Saint Peter’s College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Saint Peter's University was 167.8%. This is the #312 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Saint Peter's College 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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.