Houghton College Business Programs

Houghton College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Houghton, New York. Houghton is located in the countryside, which is perfect for students who enjoy a rural lifestyle.

Where Is Houghton College?

Contact details for Houghton are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1 Willard Ave, Houghton, NY 14744
Phone:	585-567-9200
Website:	www.houghton.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/HoughtonCollege/
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/HoughtonCollege

How Do I Get Into Houghton?

You can apply to Houghton online at: https://www.houghton.edu/undergraduate/houghton-ny/admission/applying/

Admission Requirements for Houghton

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Houghton?

Houghton has an acceptance rate of 80%, 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 38% of accepted students are men and 62% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 78%, and the acceptance rate for women is 81%.

Can I Afford Houghton College?

The overall average net price of Houghton is $23,723. 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

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 Houghton, approximately 62% of students took out student loans averaging $8,281 a year. That adds up to $33,124 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Houghton is 1.9%. 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.

Houghton College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 870 undergraduate students at Houghton, with 807 being full-time and 63 being part-time.

There are also 32 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 807 full-time undergraduates at Houghton, 41% are male and 59% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	30
Black or African American	44
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	610
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	88

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Houghton College. At this time, 23 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 34 countries are represented at Houghton. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, South Korea, and China.

Online Learning at Houghton College

In 2019-2020, 280 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 40th most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Houghton

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Houghton College was $34,466 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Houghton is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Human Resources Development	#9	#9

Online Growth Rankings of Houghton

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Houghton College was 50.1%. This is the #566 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Houghton regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Houghton ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Houghton.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Human Resources Development	#15
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#38
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	#53
Marketing	#67
Human Resource Management	#72
General Business Administration and Management	#315
Business Administration & Management	#420

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%.

Houghton College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	36	6	42
Accounting	6	0	6
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	4	0	4
Development Economics & International Development	4	0	4
Human Resources Development	3	0	3
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	3	0	3
Organizational Leadership	0	0	0
TOTAL	56	6	62

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 college under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.