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Rochester University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Rochester Hills is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

$28,682 Avg Cost After Aid (Undergrad)
98% 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: rochesteru.edu

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 Recommended
TOEFL Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into RU?

98% Acceptance Rate
61% Of Accepted Are Women
RU has the high acceptance rate of 98%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 98%, and the acceptance rate for women is 98%.

Can I Afford Rochester University?

$28,682 Net Price
81% Take Out Loans
3.5% 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 81% of students took out student loans averaging $6,037 a year. That adds up to $24,148 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at RU is 3.5%. 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.

Rochester University Undergraduate Student Diversity

692 Full-Time Undergraduates
58% Women
27% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 1,087 undergraduate students at RU, with 692 being full-time and 395 being part-time.

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There are also 27 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 692 full-time undergraduates at RU, 42% are male and 58% 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 14
Black or African American 125
Hispanic or Latino 25
White 458
International Students 21
Other Races/Ethnicities 49

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

259 Took All Classes Online
888 Took At Least One Class Online
13.2% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2020-2021, 888 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 2nd most popular in Michigan for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

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 #912 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at RU regardless of major.

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%.

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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