Westmont College Overview

Located in Santa Barbara, California, Westmont College is a private not-for-profit institution. Santa Barbara is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Westmont College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Westmont since the student to facuty ratio is 10 to 1.
• The postbaccalaureate certificate is the highest award offered at Westmont.
• In a recent academic period65% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Westmont bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $64,778 a year. That's about 59% more than their peers at other schools.
• It takes the average Westmont student 4.1 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Westmont College?

Contact details for Westmont are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	955 La Paz Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93108-1089
Phone:	805-565-6000
Website:	www.westmont.edu

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How Do I Get Into Westmont?

You can apply to Westmont online at: www.westmont.edu/a/apply.html

Admission Requirements for Westmont

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	5
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	1
Recommendations	1
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Westmont?

With an acceptance rate of 82%, Westmont 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 33% of accepted students are men and 67% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 77%, and the acceptance rate for women is 84%.

Average Test Scores

About 20% of students accepted to Westmont submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 640 and 728. Math scores were between 640 and 730.

Westmont received ACT scores from 3% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 34 and 36. Math scores were between 28 and 0. Composite scores were between 30 and 33.

Can I Afford Westmont College?

The overall average net price of Westmont is $39,935. 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

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Westmont, approximately 54% of students took out student loans averaging $7,897 a year. That adds up to $31,588 over four years for those students.

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Westmont College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,226 undergraduate students at Westmont, with 1,224 being full-time and 2 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,224 full-time undergraduates at Westmont, 40% are male and 60% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	87
Black or African American	20
Hispanic or Latino	249
White	658
International Students	18
Other Races/Ethnicities	192

Geographic Diversity

California students aren't the only ones who study at Westmont College. At this time, 22 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 19 countries are represented at Westmont. The most popular countries sending students to the school are South Korea, China, and Rwanda.

Westmont College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Undergraduate Certificate	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
Business/Managerial Economics	0	60	60
Health & Physical Education	0	42	42
General Biology	0	38	38
General Psychology	0	27	27
Communication & Media Studies	0	24	24
Political Science & Government	0	21	21
Computer Information Systems	0	19	19
Sociology	0	19	19
Chemistry	0	17	17
Religious Studies	0	14	14
General English Literature	0	13	13
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	11	11
Nursing	0	8	8
History	0	8	8
Philosophy	0	8	8
Fine & Studio Arts	0	8	8
General Engineering	0	7	7
Music	0	7	7
Teacher Education Grade Specific	6	0	6
Romance Languages	0	6	6
Mathematics	0	5	5
Interdisciplinary Studies	0	5	5
General Social Sciences	0	3	3
Drama & Theater Arts	0	3	3
Engineering Physics	0	2	2
International Studies	0	2	2
Physics	0	2	2
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	0	0	0
Anthropology	0	0	0
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	0	0	0
TOTAL	6	379	385

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 Richard O’Reilly under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.