Fast Facts

(as of 2024-25)

Founded: 1889.

Location: Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, a rural community of approximately 3,000 residents located in Butler County, one hour north of Pittsburgh.

Campus: 660 acres and more than 60 buildings and structures.

Enrollment: 8,394, including 6,853 undergraduates and 1,541 graduate students.

Student Demographics:

• 91% of first-year students live on campus.
• 41% of undergraduates live on campus.
• 88% have in-state residency status.
• 14% are residents of Butler County.
• 58% have residency in west-central Pennsylvania (Butler and its eight bordering counties).
• 84% are traditional college age (under 25).
• 59% are female.
• 11% are non-majority ethnicities.

Tuition and Fees: $10,568 (Pennsylvania residents), $14,676 (Out-of-state residents with 3.0 GPA).

Faculty and Staff: There are 946 employees including 386 full-time faculty and a 21:1 faculty-to-student ratio.

Academics: More than 150 undergraduate majors and 40 graduate degrees and certificates.

Student Quality: 3.5 high school GPA for entering first-year students, 78% graduated in the top half of their high school class and 42% in the top quarter.

Student Success: 84% freshman-to-sophomore retention rate and 57% four-year and 66% six-year graduation rates.

Student organizations: More than 200 recognized student organizations involving more than 5,000 students.

Athletics: 17 NCAA Division II men’s and women’s teams, 12 intercollegiate sports.

Nickname: The Rock.

Other locations:

• The Regional Learning Alliance is an educational center located in Cranberry Township where SRU offers graduate degree programs: MBA, master’s degrees in education and public health and its doctoral degree in special education.
• The Harrisville Building, located six miles from Slippery Rock, houses the Physician Assistant Studies and Occupational Therapy programs.
• The Quanzhou University of Information Engineering, and institution in China with which SRU has partnered for joint degree programs.

RECOGNITION

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Best Regional Universities – North
-U.S. News & World Report

Best in the Mid-Atlantic
-Princeton Review

College of Distinction (national, public, and Pennsylvania)
-Colleges of Distinction