Waldorf University Overview

Located in Forest City, Iowa, Waldorf University is a private for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Forest City is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Waldorf University Known For?

• The 2% student loan default rate at Waldorf 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 Waldorf is the master's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 33% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from Waldorf makes roughly $46,322 a year. This is 14% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is Waldorf University?

Contact details for Waldorf are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	106 S Sixth St, Forest City, IA 50436-1713
Phone:	641-585-2450
Website:	www.waldorf.edu

How Do I Get Into Waldorf?

You can apply to Waldorf online at: https://mywaldorf.waldorf.edu/form/Application/

Admission Requirements for Waldorf

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	Neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Waldorf?

With an acceptance rate of 72%, Waldorf may not be as selective as some schools, but you should not take admittance for granted. Be sure to submit the best application you can.

Approximately 71% of accepted students are men and 29% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 70%, and the acceptance rate for women is 78%.

Can I Afford Waldorf University?

The overall average net price of Waldorf is $29,900. 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 Waldorf, approximately 83% of students took out student loans averaging $5,857 a year. That adds up to $23,428 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Waldorf is 1.5%. 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.

Waldorf University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,088 undergraduate students at Waldorf, with 1,452 being full-time and 636 being part-time.

There are also 432 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,452 full-time undergraduates at Waldorf, 58% are male and 42% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Waldorf University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	24
Black or African American	146
Hispanic or Latino	60
White	698
International Students	50
Other Races/Ethnicities	474

Geographic Diversity

Iowa students aren't the only ones who study at Waldorf University. At this time, 32 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 32 countries are represented at Waldorf. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, Brazil, and Germany.

Online Learning at Waldorf University

There are 30 bachelor’s degree and 12 master’s degree programs available online at Waldorf. In 2020-2021, 1,867 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 2nd most popular in Iowa for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Waldorf

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Waldorf University was 10.5%. This is the #757 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Waldorf 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.