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Located in White Plains, New York, The College of Westchester is a private for-profit institution. White Plains is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

97 Undergraduate Degrees
88% Acceptance Rate

Where Is The College of Westchester?

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Contact details for CW are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 325 Central Ave, White Plains, NY 10606-1200
Phone: 914-948-4442
Website: www.cw.edu

How Do I Get Into CW?

You can apply to CW online at: https://success.cw.edu/forms/apply/career/acct.aspx

Admission Requirements for CW

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into CW?

88% Acceptance Rate
57% Of Accepted Are Women
CW has the high acceptance rate of 88%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 43% of accepted students are men and 57% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 85%, and the acceptance rate for women is 91%.

Can I Afford The College of Westchester?

72% Take Out Loans
6.7% Loan Default Rate

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 CW, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $5,447 a year. That adds up to $21,788 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at CW is 6.7%. 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.

The College of Westchester Undergraduate Student Diversity

687 Full-Time Undergraduates
67% Women
91% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 934 undergraduate students at CW, with 687 being full-time and 247 being part-time.

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Gender Diversity

Of the 687 full-time undergraduates at CW, 33% are male and 67% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 14
Black or African American 255
Hispanic or Latino 346
White 38
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 34

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at The College of Westchester. At this time, 2 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 5 countries are represented at CW. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Ethiopia, Georgia, and Equatorial Guinea.

Online Learning at The College of Westchester

108 Took All Classes Online
170 Took At Least One Class Online
37.8% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2019-2020, 170 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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Online Growth Rankings of CW

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at The College of Westchester was 37.8%. This is the #680 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at CW regardless of major.

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

Major Growth Rate Rank
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping #97
Accounting #193
General Business Administration and Management #415

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%.

The College of Westchester Business Concentrations

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

Major Associate’s Bachelor’s TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management 30 41 71
Accounting 0 17 17
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping 9 0 9
TOTAL 39 58 97

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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