Villa Maria College Overview

Villa Maria College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Buffalo, New York. The city atmosphere of Buffalo makes it a great place for students who enjoy having lots of educational and entertainment options.

What Is Villa Maria College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Villa since the student to facuty ratio is 8 to 1.
• The bachelor's degree is the highest award offered at Villa.
• In <nil>, 32% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Villa Maria College?

Contact details for Villa are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	240 Pine Ridge Rd, Buffalo, NY 14225-3999
Phone:	716-896-0700
Website:	www.villa.edu

How Do I Get Into Villa?

You can apply to Villa online at: https://www.villa.edu/admission/apply-online/

Admission Requirements for Villa

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Villa?

Villa has an acceptance rate of 76%, 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 46% of accepted students are men and 54% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 80%, and the acceptance rate for women is 72%.

Average Test Scores

About 13% of students accepted to Villa submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 440 and 580. Math scores were between 360 and 530.

Villa received ACT scores from 0% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Villa Maria College?

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 Villa, approximately 64% of students took out student loans averaging $5,993 a year. That adds up to $23,972 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Villa is 8.3%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Villa Maria College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 452 undergraduate students at Villa, with 387 being full-time and 65 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 387 full-time undergraduates at Villa, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	6
Black or African American	137
Hispanic or Latino	39
White	158
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	47

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Villa Maria College. At this time, 6 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 3 countries are represented at Villa. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Ethiopia, Canada, and Bermuda.

Online Learning at Villa Maria College

In 2020-2021, 127 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of Villa

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Villa Maria College was 200.0%. This is the #280 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Villa 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.