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Information Summary
| Total Cost
On-Campus Attendance |
$36,820 |
|---|---|
| Admission
Success rate |
77% |
| ACT / SAT
75 %ile scores |
/ 1170 |
| Student Ratio
Ratio of students to faculty |
16 : 1 |
| Retention
(Full-Time / Part-Time) |
84% / N/A |
| Enrollment
Total (all students) |
2,186 |
Demographics – Main Campus and Surrounding Areas
Reported area around or near Emmitsburg, MD
| Total Population | 5,548 (3,786 urban / 1,762 rural) |
|---|---|
| Households | 1,489 (2.68 people per house) |
| Families | 1,102 (3.06 people per family) |
| Surrounding community | Fringe rural area (less than 5 mi. from an urban area) |
| Pop. — African American | 181 |
| Pop. — Asian | 49 |
| Pop. — Pacific Islander | 2 |
| Pop. — American Indian / Alaskan Native | 30 |
| Pop. — White (incl. Hispanic) | 5,300 |
| Pop. — Other | 37 |
Carnegie Foundation Classification
Master's Colleges and Universities (medium programs)
| Undergraduate | Balanced arts & sciences/professions, some graduate coexistence |
|---|---|
| Graduate | Postbaccalaureate professional (business dominant) |
| Undergraduate Population | Full-time four-year, selective, lower transfer-in |
| Enrollment | High undergraduate |
| Size & Setting | Small four-year, highly residential |
General Characteristics
| Highest offering | Master's degree |
|---|---|
| Calendar System | Semester |
| Years of college work required | N/A |
| Variable Tuition |
Student Tuition Costs and Fees
What are the typical tuition costs and fees for attending Mount St Mary's University?
Ranks 351st for total cost of attendance
| In District | In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FT Undergraduate Tuition | $25,290 | $25,290 | $25,290 |
| FT Undergraduate Required Fees | $600 | $600 | $600 |
| PT Undergraduate per Credit Hour | $845 | $845 | $845 |
| FT Graduate Tuition | $6,885 | $6,885 | $6,885 |
| FT Graduate Required Fees | $100 | $100 | $100 |
| PT Graduate per Credit Hour | $383 | $383 | $383 |
| Total Cost of attendance — On-Campus | $36,820 | $36,820 | $36,820 |
| Total Cost of attendance — Off-Campus w/out Family | $32,540 | $32,540 | $32,540 |
| Total Cost of attendance — Off-Campus with Family | $30,140 | $30,140 | $30,140 |
Student Tuition Costs for Professional Fields
What are the typical tuition costs and fees for getting a professional degree?
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Theology Degree — Tuition | $14,366 | $14,366 |
| Theology Degree — Required Fees | N/A | N/A |
Student Tuition Cost History and Trends
Three year history and trends on the cost of attending
| In District | In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published Tuition & Fees | $22,900 |
$22,900 |
$22,900 |
| Cost (regardless of residency) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Books & Supplies | $800 |
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| On-Campus – Room & Board | $8,030 |
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| On-Campus – Other Expenses | $900 |
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| Off-Campus w/out Family – Room & Board | $4,500 |
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| Off-Campus w/out Family – Other Expenses | $1,350 |
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| Off-Campus with Family – Room & Board | $3,450 |
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Admission Details
| Application Fee Required | N/A |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate Application Fee | $35 |
| Graduate Application Fee | $35 |
| First Professional Application Fee | N/A |
| Applicants | 2,680 (987 male / 1,693 female) |
| Admitted | 2,070 (757 male / 1,313 female) |
| Admission rate | 77% |
| First-time Enrollment | 449 (193 male / 256 female) |
| FT Enrollment | 449 (193 male / 256 female) |
| PT Enrollment | N/A (N/A male / N/A female) |
| Total Enrollment | 2,186 |
Admission Criteria
What criteria does Mount St Mary's University use for admissions?
| Open Admissions | |
|---|---|
| Secondary School GPA / Rank / Record | |
| College Prep. Completion | |
| Recommendations | |
| Formal competency demo | N/A |
| Admission test scores | |
| TOEFL | |
| Other tests | N/A |
Special Learning Opportunities
| Distance Learning | |
|---|---|
| ROTC — Army / Navy / Airforce | |
| Study Abroad | |
| Weekend College | |
| Teacher Certification |
Athletics - Association Memberships
| Sports / Athletic Conference Memberships | NCAA |
|---|---|
| NCAA Basketball Conference | Northeast Conference |
| NCAA Baseball Conference | Northeast Conference |
| NCAA Track & Field Conference | Northeast Conference |
Admission Credits Accepted
What types of credits does Mount St Mary's University accept?
| Dual Credit | |
|---|---|
| Life Experience | |
| Advanced Placement (AP) |
ACT Test Admission
| Applicants submitting ACT results | 1% |
|---|---|
| Verbal scores (25/75 %ile) | / |
| Math scores (25/75 %ile) | / |
| Cumulative scores (25/75 %ile) | / |
SAT Test Admission
Rank 585th for 75pctl scores
| Applicants submitting SAT results | 99% |
|---|---|
| Verbal scores (25/75 %ile) | 480 / 590 |
| Math scores (25/75 %ile) | 470 / 580 |
| Cumulative scores (25/75 %ile) | 950 / 1170 |
Student Services
| Remedial Services | |
|---|---|
| Academic / Career Counseling | |
| PT Cost-defraying Employment | |
| Career Placement | |
| On-Campus Day Care | |
| Library Facility |
Student Living
| First-time Room / Board Required | |
|---|---|
| Dorm Capacity | 1,313 |
| Meals per Week | N/A |
| Room Fee | $4,600 |
| Board Fee | $4,530 |
Student Financial Aid Details
How many students use Financial Aid, and how much do they use?
Mount St Mary's University ranks 3350th for the average student loan amount.
| Average | Users | % of Attendees | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Grant Aid | $3,969 | 59 | |
| State & Local Grant Aid | $3,475 | 170 | |
| Institutional Grant Aid | $11,522 | 428 | |
| Student Loan Aid | $3,451 | 309 | |
| Any financial aid type | 431 |
Student Enrollment Demographics
How many students are enrolled at Mount St Mary's University?
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
Non Resident Alien | 28 | 11 | 39 |
Black Non-Hispanic | 44 | 76 | 120 |
Hispanic | 35 | 36 | 71 |
Asian / Pacific Islander | 33 | 24 | 57 |
American Indian / Alaskan Native | 2 | 2 | 4 |
White Non-Hispanic | 787 | 1,053 | 1,840 |
Race Unknown | 30 | 25 | 55 |
| Total | 959 | 1,227 | 2,186 |
Student Graduation Demographics
How many students graduated at Mount St Mary's University?
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
Non Resident Alien | 2 | N/A | 2 |
Black Non-Hispanic | 9 | 10 | 19 |
Hispanic | 6 | 9 | 15 |
Asian / Pacific Islander | 6 | 6 | 12 |
American Indian / Alaskan Native | N/A | N/A | N/A |
White Non-Hispanic | 134 | 192 | 326 |
Race Unknown | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Total | 160 | 223 | 383 |
Most Popular Fields of Study
The top 5 fields of study completed at Mount St Mary's University.
| Men | Women | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 48 | 108 | |
| 44 | 53 | 97 | |
| 7 | 59 | 66 | |
| 3 | 21 | 24 | |
| 21 | N/A | 21 |
Student Completion / Graduation Demographics
How many students are successful graduates?
Faculty Compensation / Salaries
Mount St Mary's University ranks 1377th for the average full-time faculty salary.
| Tenure system | |
|---|---|
| Average FT Salary | $55,877 ($57,867 male / $52,295 female) |
| Number of FT Faculty | 112 (72 male / 40 female) |
| Number of PT Faculty | N/A |
| FT Faculty Ratio | N/A |
| Total Benefits | $1,778,730 |
Mount St Mary's University Summary
Mount St. Mary’s University is a private, liberal arts, Catholic university located in the Catoctin Mountains near Emmitsburg, Maryland. In addition to its undergraduate school, the university includes five graduate programs, including a seminary. Previous to June 7, 2004, the university was known as Mount St. Mary’s College and Seminary. The university is known as the “Cradle of Bishops” due to the high number of alumni who have become bishops; In 1809, Pigeon Hall, a seminary of the Society of St. Sulpice was transferred to Emmitsburg and marked the beginning of higher education at Mount St. Mary. However, until the early 1900s, Mount Saint Mary’s University also acted as a boarding school. The university is located on a 1,400 acre (5.7 km²) campus, which includes the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes, a popular pilgrimage site. The National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes draws hundreds of thousands of religious pilgrims and tourists to the campus of Mount Saint Mary’s University annually. The university enrolls 1,612 undergraduate students and 513 graduate students with a total of 2,125 total students. Of the freshmen who attend the Mount, 90% stated that Mount St. Mary’s was either their first or second choice. That year the Echo also had expanded into other formats with Echo Online, which was the first incarnation of The Mountain Echo website, as well as Echo Weekly News with Vince Chesney, which was a radio show hosted by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief on the college radio station, WMTB. His experience of developing Mount Saint Mary’s would have been highly prized as Notre Dame was being formed. Like the Mount, in its early years Notre Dame was a university in name only. It encompassed religious novitiates, preparatory and grade schools and a manual labor school, but its classical collegiate curriculum never attracted more than a dozen students a year in the early decades. While Bruté was a modest man, leaving no published works behind, his influence can be seen in the University of Notre Dame and its sister school St. Mary’s College. There is the obvious parallel between the three school’s names (Notre Dame is ‘Our Mother’ a term of endearment for Saint Mary). Mount Saint Mary’s in Emmitsburg has the motto ‘Spes Nostra’ (Latin: Our Hope) which is incredibly similar to St. Mary’s College in Indiana’s motto ‘Spes Unica’ (Latin: the Only/Unique Hope) and Notre Dame’s motto ‘Vita Dulcedo Spes’ (Latin: Life, Sweetness, Hope). Mount Saint Mary’s in Emmitsburg, Notre Dame and St. Mary’s in Indiana are all unique in their use of focusing on their patron’s attribute of a Catholic’s hope.
Summary content courtesy of Wikipedia.
Mount St Mary's University Academics
Mount St. Mary’s University is unique in its study options. Again, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Adult (re-entering) student services, Alcohol/Substance Abuse Counseling, Campus Ministries/Chaplain, Career Counseling, Employment Service, Financial Aid Counseling, Freshman Orientation Program, Health Services, Minority Student Services, Personal Counseling and Placement Service can help. In particular, the university has a Accelerated Program, Cross-Registration, Double Major, Dual Enrollment of High School Students, Honors Program, Independent Study, Internships, Liberal Arts/Career Combination, ROTC, Army, Student-Designed Major, Study Abroad, Teacher Certification, Washington Semester and Weekend College. There’s never a reason to feel alone in your studies either, since there are academic support services like Learning Center, Reduced Course Load, Remedial Instruction, Study Skills Assistance, Tutoring and Writing Center. The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed.
The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at Mount St. Mary’s University.
- Parks, Recreation, and Fitness:
- Sport/Fitness Administration
- Mathematics:
- Mathematics – General
- Psychology:
- Psychology – General
- Education:
- Elementary Education
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences:
- Biochemistry, Biology
- Computer Science:
- Computer/Information Sciences – General
- Foreign Language and Literature:
- French, German, Spanish
- Communications & Journalism:
- Communications/Rhetoric
- Social Sciences:
- Economics, International Relations, Political Science/Government, Social Sciences – General, Sociology
- Philosphy and Religion:
- Philosophy
- School of Visual and Performing Arts:
- Arts – General
- Business, Management, & Marketing:
- Accounting, Business – General, Information Resources Management
- English Language and Literature:
- English Language & Literature – General
- Physical Sciences:
- Chemistry
- Popular majors:
- thirty-five percent business per marketing, fourteen percent social sciences, eleven percent education, seven percent communications per journalism, five percent foreign languages and literature, five percent psychology
- History:
- History – General
- Security and Protective Services:
- Criminal Justice Studies
The cost per credit hour (overall) was $750 Cost & Savings Calculator Financial Aid International students eligible for need-based aid last fall. Besides, for international students, the application fee is 35. Are you an international student? The Fall application deadline for international students is the 1st of June.
Mount St Mary's University Admissions
Admission policy is currently Percent applicants admitted: 84%. Remember that this can change at any time. Transfer student are not ignored. For instance, there were one hundred and thirteen total number of transfer students who applied and seventy total number of transfer students who were admitted. This school requires an application fee consisting of thirty-five dollars regular application fee, thirty-five dollars out-of-state application fee, thirty-five dollars online application fee and point zero .
For all student applicants, the Fall application deadline is the 1st of June. Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place. SAT and ACT score reports are due the 1st of June and The regular application due date was not reported. the SAT subject section score due date was not reported. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, and make sure they are in by the 15th of February.
Mount St Mary's University Financial Aid
Financial aid forms are FAFSA and Institution’s own financial aid form. Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school. In the same way, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Academics, Music/Drama, Athletics, Minority Status, ROTC and Leadership. If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics, Music/Drama, Athletics, Minority Status, ROTC and Leadership. Financial aid distribution is at sixty-nine percent scholarships per grants and thirty-one percent loans per jobs.
Mount St Mary's University Students
The school’s size is approximately one thousand, six hundred and fifty-six degree-seeking undergrads, four hundred and thirty-nine first-time degree-seeking freshmen and four hundred and five graduate enrollment. Further, the student body consists of fifty-six percent in-state students, forty-four percent out-of-state students, sixty-one percent women, thirty-nine percent men, two percent asian per pacific islander, eight percent black per non-hispanic, five percent hispanic, eighty-three percent white per non-hispanic, one percent non-resident alien, two percent race per ethnicity unreported, twenty percent in top 10th of graduating class, forty-eight percent in top quarter of graduating class, eighty-one percent in top half of graduating class, thirteen percent had h.s. gpa of 3.75 and higher, sixteen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.5 and 3.74, fourteen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.25 and 3.49, twenty-two percent had h.s. gpa between 3.0 and 3.24, twenty-six percent had h.s. gpa between 2.5 and 2.99 and nine percent had h.s. gpa between 2.0 and 2.49. Mount St. Mary’s University offers Bachelor’s, Master’s and First Professional degrees. The university is a Private, Liberal Arts College, University, Four-year, Roman Catholic Church, Coed, where 84 percent of the applicants were admitted, Regionally accredited and College Board member. Again, it is part of an Rural setting, Rural community (under 2,500) and Residential campus.
This school features the Rural setting, Rural community (under 2,500) and Residential campus. In any event, the school is located 65 miles from Washington, DC, 50 miles from Baltimore.Again, the university has many unique facilites such as 300 acre recreation area.
Mount St Mary's University Athletics
The following sports can be found here:
- Men’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate and Men’s Scholarship Baseball
- Men’s NCAA Division I, Women’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Basketball
- Men’s NCAA Division I, Women’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Cross_country
- Men’s NCAA Division I, Women’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Golf
- Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Racquetball
- Men’s NCAA Division I, Women’s NCAA Division I, Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Soccer
- Women’s NCAA Division I, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Intramural, Women’s Intramural and Women’s Scholarship Softball
- Men’s Intercollegiate, Women’s Intercollegiate, Men’s Scholarship and Women’s Scholarship Track_and_field
- Men’s NCAA Division I and Women’s NCAA Division I Track_indoor
- Men’s NCAA Division I and Women’s NCAA Division I Track_outdoor
- Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Volleyball














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Very interesting and informative. For Athletics, they also have men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis, women's swimming, and rugby. The swimming program was started in 2005-2006. First year was exhibition. 2006-2007 was the first year they competed in the Northeast Conference(NEC). Neil Yost is the coach if you want further information.