Bard Class Profile
Class of 2022
Bard College’s Class of 2022
was selected from a large and competitive applicant pool, indicating their extraordinary promise. They are a high-achieving group, with wide-ranging interests and varied backgrounds. Our first-year students come to Annandale from 36 states and 26 countries, bringing with them their passion, creativity, and intellectual engagement.
College Facts
Academic
- 2017–18 academic year: 1,242 classes
- Tutorials: 128
- Student/faculty ratio: 9.3/1
- Class size:
2–9 students: 39%
10–19 students: 41%
20–29 students: 18%
30–39 students: 2%
- Total: 297
- Identifies as female: 42%
- Identifies as male: 58%
- Faculty of color: 15%
- Full-time faculty with a terminal degree: 87%
Bard College has been test optional for over 40 years.
Who Are They?
Incoming Students
- First-year students: 486
- Public high school: 53%
- Independent high school: 46%
- Homeschool (partial or complete): 1%
- Identifies as female: 60%
- Identifies as male: 40%
- New England: 13%
- Mid-Atlantic: 38%*
- South/Southeast: 7%
- Southwest: 2%
- Midwest: 5%
- West: 18%
- International/dual: 17%
*New York: 27%
Countries/Territories: 26
Ethnic Diversity
- African American/Black: 8%
- Asian/Pacific Islander: 12%
- Hispanic/Latino: 13%
- Multiracial: 5%
- Native American: 1%
- Unknown: 7%
- White/non-Hispanic: 54%
Bard by the Numbers
Financial Aid
- Received Bard institutional aid: 74%
- Average institutional aid: $43,745
- Average aid package total: $49,336 (includes loans, work study, and grants)
The Class of 2022 received aid in the following categories: 8% loans, 2% work study, and 90% grants. - Total Bard aid awarded to first-years (2018–19): $15.2 million
- Total aid awarded (2018–19): $51.1 million
- Average debt: $27,726 (those who graduated in May 2018)
- Pell Grant recipients (2018–19): 24%
- Tuition: $54,210
- Room and board: $17,074*
- Fees:
- Health Service: $470
- Security deposit: $225
- Total first year: $71,979