Marietta College

Private · Moderately Selective · OH

Photo: Pub. by Peoples News Agency, Marietta, Ohio ("Tichnor Quality Views") (Public domain)

School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationOH · Midwest

SettingRural

Undergrads952

Student:faculty10:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate49%

6-yr grad rate61.4%

Drop-out rate30.6%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$40k

Out-of-state tuition$40k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity16.6%

Gender diversity46.6%

International2.7%

Identity—

Overview

Marietta College is a private liberal-arts college in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in a historic river town. It has built a reputation disproportionate to its size in one field: petroleum engineering, an unusual offering for a small liberal-arts college.

Academics

The petroleum engineering program has decades of industry ties and is the college's signature technical strength. Leadership studies, through the McDonough Center, is another well-known program built around hands-on leadership development rather than classroom theory alone, and long-term care administration is a further career-specific niche. Class sizes are small across the board.

Campus & student life

The historic river-town setting shapes campus character, with a walkable, small-city backdrop rather than an isolated rural campus. Athletics and Greek life are both present but modest in scale, consistent with the college's size.

Worth knowing

The petroleum engineering program is genuinely notable — one of only a handful of undergraduate programs of its kind in the country — and draws students specifically for that reason, giving Marietta a technical-career identity unusual for a liberal-arts college its size.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate79.3%

Enrolled mid-50%SAT 1040–1200 · ACT 17–24

Test policyoptional

Rec letters1

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

AdmissionRolling

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