Unity College Overview

Unity College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in New Gloucester, Maine. The rural area surrounding the school is great for students who prefer living in a country setting.

What Is Unity College Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at Unity 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 Unity is the master's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 8% of the faculty were full-time.
• It takes the average Unity student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Unity College?

Contact details for Unity are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	70 Farm View Drive, Suite 200, New Gloucester, ME 04260
Phone:	207-509-7100
Website:	unity.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/UnityCollege
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/unitycollege

How Do I Get Into Unity?

You can apply to Unity online at: https://unity.edu/apply-to-unity-college/

Admission Requirements for Unity

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Unity?

Unity 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 29% of accepted students are men and 71% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 89%, and the acceptance rate for women is 92%.

Can I Afford Unity College?

The overall average net price of Unity is $12,257. 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 Unity, approximately 74% of students took out student loans averaging $5,695 a year. That adds up to $22,780 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Unity is 2.6%. 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.

Unity College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,991 undergraduate students at Unity, with 1,990 being full-time and 1 being part-time.

There are also 448 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,990 full-time undergraduates at Unity, 27% are male and 73% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	22
Black or African American	77
Hispanic or Latino	173
White	1,449
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	267

Geographic Diversity

Maine students aren't the only ones who study at Unity College. At this time, 18 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Online Learning at Unity College

There are 15 bachelor’s degree and 21 master’s degree programs available online at Unity. In 2020-2021, 2,417 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 10th most popular in Maine for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Unity

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Unity College was 213.7%. This is the #269 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Unity 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 David Dixon under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.