Rhodes College
Memphis, TN
Rhodes College is a private, Presbyterian liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, a large city, with 1,836 undergraduates. Social sciences and biology are its signature fields: together they make up 38% of its bachelor's degrees, two and a half times their share across the colleges we cover. 85% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $66,651 ten years after starting.
Rhodes College admitted 2,993 of 6,025 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (49.7%).
- Acceptance rate
- 49.7%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $57,110
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $28,585
- Average, students with aid
- ACT, middle 50%
- 28–33
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 Rhodes College is known for
Measured by the 529 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Social sciences
19.5%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 8.0% share across the colleges we cover.
Biology
18.7%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 7.4% share across the colleges we cover.
- Biology6913.0% of degrees$50,036−13% vs $57,214 nationally
- Business Administration, Management and Operations6311.9% of degrees$77,838+14% vs $68,257 nationally
- Computer Science326.0% of degrees$78,973−26% vs $107,009 nationally
- Psychology305.7% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- International Relations and National Security Studies305.7% of degrees$56,744−15% vs $66,596 nationally
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences285.3% 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
Large city
Memphis, TN
Undergraduates
1,836
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
9 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
6%
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 Rhodes College
Two things Rhodes 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.
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 22% sent an ACT. Rhodes College files test scores under “considered”.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Families paid $28,585 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
49.7%
2,993 admitted of 6,025 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
SAT, middle 50%
Reading 650–730Math 640–760
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
ACT, middle 50%
28–33
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
22%
Counted per test: a student may send both.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Rhodes 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 Rhodes College costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $57,110, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $71,136. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $28,585 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$57,110
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$71,136
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$28,585
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $71,136 full cost.
- Under $30k$15,770Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$19,960Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$15,910Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$37,103Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$31,878Typical 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
85%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
92%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$66,651
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$21,761
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.
What Rhodes College says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Essayrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendationsrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scoresconsidered
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.
More colleges on the record
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Other colleges in Tennessee
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- The University of the South50.9%
- Union University47.2%
- The University of Tennessee-Knoxville43.6%
- Fisk University57.9%
Colleges with a similar acceptance rate
Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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