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Rochester University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Rochester Hills is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

40 Undergraduate Degrees
$28,682 Avg Cost After Aid (Undergrad)
99% Acceptance Rate

Where Is Rochester University?

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Contact details for RU are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 800 West Avon Road, Rochester Hills, MI 48307
Phone: 248-218-2011
Website: www.rc.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RochesterCollege
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rcwarriors

How Do I Get Into RU?

You can apply to RU online at: https://rochesteru.tfaforms.net/forms/view/30/?tfa_dbWorkflowId=1&tfa_dbWorkflowStep=0&tfa_dbWorkflowControl=188d6d0777c435980053b9cccace863b

Admission Requirements for RU

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into RU?

99% Acceptance Rate
60% Of Accepted Are Women
77% Submit SAT Scores
RU has the high acceptance rate of 99%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 40% of accepted students are men and 60% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 99%, and the acceptance rate for women is 100%.

Average Test Scores

About 77% of students accepted to RU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 430 and 530. Math scores were between 410 and 530.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Rochester University  ( 430 to 530 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Rochester University  ( 410 to 530 )
200
800
RU received ACT scores from 15% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 15 and 24. Math scores were between 16 and 21. Composite scores were between 17 and 23.

ACT English Scores for Rochester University  ( 15 to 24 )
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36
ACT Math Scores for Rochester University  ( 16 to 21 )
1
36
ACT Composite Scores for Rochester University  ( 17 to 23 )
1
36

Can I Afford Rochester University?

$28,682 Net Price
71% Take Out Loans
8.7% Loan Default Rate
The overall average net price of RU is $28,682. 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 RU, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $5,544 a year. That adds up to $22,176 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at RU is 8.7%. 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.

Rochester University Undergraduate Student Diversity

745 Full-Time Undergraduates
59% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 1,198 undergraduate students at RU, with 745 being full-time and 453 being part-time.

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There are also 33 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 745 full-time undergraduates at RU, 41% are male and 59% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 12
Black or African American 142
Hispanic or Latino 18
White 507
International Students 21
Other Races/Ethnicities 45

Geographic Diversity

Michigan students aren't the only ones who study at Rochester University. At this time, 9 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 14 countries are represented at RU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Canada, and Brazil.

Online Learning at Rochester University

234 Took All Classes Online
1,049 Took At Least One Class Online
13.2% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2019-2020, 1,049 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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This school is the 18th most popular in Michigan for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of RU

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Rochester University was $24,720 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how RU 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
Organizational Leadership #65 #62

Online Growth Rankings of RU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Rochester University was 13.2%. This is the #1,116 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at RU regardless of major.

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

Major Growth Rate Rank
Organizational Leadership #192

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%.

Rochester University Business Concentrations

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

Major Bachelor’s TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management 18 18
Organizational Leadership 18 18
Accounting 2 2
Entrepreneurship 2 2
TOTAL 40 40

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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