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Hartwick College

Oneonta, NY

Hartwick College is a private liberal arts college in Oneonta, New York, a town more than 35 miles from a city, with 1,087 undergraduates. Health professions and criminal justice are its signature fields: together they make up 33% of its bachelor's degrees, about three times their share across the colleges we cover. 53% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $61,107 ten years after starting.

Hartwick College admitted 2,939 of 4,278 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (68.7%).

Acceptance rate
68.7%
Fall 2023 class
Tuition and fees
$54,962
2024–25 school year
Paid after aid
$31,320
Average, students with aid
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 550–640 · Math 540–640

Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.

What Hartwick College is known for

Measured by the 249 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.

Health professions

24.5%

of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.

Criminal justice

8.4%

of its bachelor's degrees: about four times the 2.2% share across the colleges we cover.

  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing4417.7% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations3714.9% of degrees$62,065−9% vs $68,257 nationally
  • Psychology218.4% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections218.4% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Biology187.2% of degrees$61,662+8% vs $57,214 nationally
  • Public Health176.8% of degreesToo few graduates to publish

Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.

The place

Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.

Setting

Remote town

Oneonta, NY

Undergraduates

1,087

Fall 2024

Type

Private, nonprofit

Baccalaureate college, arts and sciences focus

Living on campus

Half or more

of undergraduates live on campus

Students per faculty member

10 to 1

Fall 2024

International students

4%

of undergraduates, fall 2024

Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.

What stands out at Hartwick College

Three things Hartwick College published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.

Trend1 of 3

The admit rate fell from 83% to 69% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.

Fall 201883%
Fall 202369%

Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023

Scores sent2 of 3

8% of the enrolled class sent an SAT.

The SAT band on this page describes that share of the class, not all of it. Another 0% sent an ACT. Hartwick College files test scores under “considered”.

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Cost3 of 3

Families paid $31,320 on average after aid.

Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.

Source: the College Scorecard

Every figure, in full

The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.

Acceptance rate

68.7%

2,939 admitted of 4,278 applicants

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

SAT, middle 50%

Reading 550–640Math 540–640

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Enrolled students who sent an SAT

8%

Counted per test: a student may send both.

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Enrolled students who sent an ACT

0%

Counted per test: a student may send both.

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Where do you actually stand at Hartwick College?

The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.

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What Hartwick College costs

The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.

Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $54,962, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $68,614. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $31,320 a year on average.

Tuition and fees

$54,962

2024–25 school year

Full cost of attendance

$68,614

Tuition, fees, housing, food and books

Paid after aid

$31,320

Average, students who received aid

What students paid, by family income

Each bar is that figure as a share of the $68,614 full cost.

  • Under $30k$22,584Typical public university: $10,013
  • $30k–$48k$30,229Typical public university: $10,847
  • $48k–$75k$35,177Typical public university: $13,703
  • $75k–$110k$35,614Typical public university: $17,979
  • Over $110k$33,129Typical public university: $22,475

Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.

Where it leads

Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.

Finish within six years

53%

Our colleges' median: 63%

Return for a second year

74%

Our colleges' median: 79%

Earnings after 10 years

$61,107

Our colleges' median: $57,440

Median debt at graduation

$27,000

Our colleges' median: $23,725

Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.

How the rate has moved

Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.

Fall 201883%
Fall 202369%

Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate fell from 83% to 69%.

What Hartwick College says it weighs

The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.

  • Course rigorrequired

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

  • GPArequired

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

  • Essayconsidered

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

  • Test scoresconsidered

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

  • Recommendationsconsidered

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

  • Class rankconsidered

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Published deadlines

Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.

  • Rolling AdmissionJuly 29, 2027

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