Merrimack College Business Programs

Merrimack College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in North Andover, Massachusetts. North Andover is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

Where Is Merrimack College?

Contact details for Merrimack are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	315 Turnpike St, North Andover, MA 01845
Phone:	978-837-5000
Website:	www.merrimack.edu
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/merrimack

Admission Requirements for Merrimack

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	neither required nor recommended
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Merrimack?

Merrimack has an acceptance rate of 82%, 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 44% of accepted students are men and 56% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 81%, and the acceptance rate for women is 83%.

Can I Afford Merrimack College?

The overall average net price of Merrimack is $44,513. 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 Merrimack, approximately 73% of students took out student loans averaging $13,364 a year. That adds up to $53,456 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Merrimack is 3.3%. 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.

Merrimack College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 4,202 undergraduate students at Merrimack, with 3,932 being full-time and 270 being part-time.

There are also 1,216 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,932 full-time undergraduates at Merrimack, 47% are male and 53% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	75
Black or African American	152
Hispanic or Latino	301
White	3,092
International Students	69
Other Races/Ethnicities	243

Geographic Diversity

Massachusetts students aren't the only ones who study at Merrimack College. At this time, 21 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 37 countries are represented at Merrimack. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, China, and Saudi Arabia.

Online Learning at Merrimack College

In 2019-2020, 4,238 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 28th most popular in Massachusetts for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Merrimack

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Merrimack College was $45,074 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Merrimack 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
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	#34	#34

Online Growth Rankings of Merrimack

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Merrimack College was 73.8%. This is the #431 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Merrimack regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Merrimack 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 Merrimack.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	#4
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	#25

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%.

Merrimack 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	84	55	139
Accounting	34	46	80
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	69	0	69
Other Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods	0	10	10
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	7	0	7
International Business/Trade/Commerce	6	0	6
General Economics	1	0	1
Finance	0	0	0
TOTAL	201	111	312

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 Merrimack Colleges Church under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.