Belhaven University Business Programs

Belhaven University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

Belhaven University Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Belhaven.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#10	Most Popular Online Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#13	Most Popular Human Resource Management Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Most Popular Business Administration & Management Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#38	Most Popular Online Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Belhaven has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#28	Best Value Colleges for Organizational Leadership	College Factual
#58	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for General Business Administration and Management	College Factual
#62	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Business Administration & Management	College Factual
#79	Best Value Graduate Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing	College Factual

Where Is Belhaven University?

Contact details for Belhaven are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1500 Peachtree St, Jackson, MS 39202
Phone:	601-968-5940
Website:	www.belhaven.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/belhavenuniversity
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/belhavenu

How Do I Get Into Belhaven?

You can apply to Belhaven online at: www.belhaven.edu/apply/

Admission Requirements for Belhaven

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Belhaven?

The acceptance rate of Belhaven University is 50%. While it may not be as selective as some schools, it does screen its applicants very carefully. Do what you can to stand out among others in the pool of applicants!

Approximately 43% of accepted students are men and 57% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 54%, and the acceptance rate for women is 46%.

Average Test Scores

About 12% of students accepted to Belhaven submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 510 and 595. Math scores were between 485 and 540.

Belhaven received ACT scores from 81% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 18 and 25. Math scores were between 19 and 21. Composite scores were between 19 and 23.

Can I Afford Belhaven University?

The overall average net price of Belhaven is $29,372. 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 Belhaven, approximately 65% of students took out student loans averaging $7,406 a year. That adds up to $29,624 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Belhaven is 7.0%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Belhaven University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,025 undergraduate students at Belhaven, with 1,177 being full-time and 848 being part-time.

There are also 2,974 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,177 full-time undergraduates at Belhaven, 39% are male and 61% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Belhaven University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	59
Black or African American	383
Hispanic or Latino	46
White	566
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	108

Geographic Diversity

Mississippi students aren't the only ones who study at Belhaven University. At this time, 25 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 32 countries are represented at Belhaven. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, United Kingdom, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Belhaven University

In 2019-2020, 4,173 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Belhaven has changed over the last few years.

This school is the most popular in Mississippi for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Belhaven

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Belhaven University was $27,025 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Belhaven is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	#40	#40

Online Growth Rankings of Belhaven

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Belhaven University was 23.9%. This is the #595 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Belhaven regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Belhaven ranks compared to all other mostly online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Belhaven.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	#39
Finance	#58
Organizational Leadership	#63
Finance & Financial Management	#87
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#100
Human Resource Management	#128
Accounting	#175
Accounting	#312
General Business Administration and Management	#486

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%.

Belhaven University Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	18	259	0	553	830
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	0	0	40	0	40
Accounting	0	14	3	0	17
Organizational Leadership	0	0	7	7	14
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	0	9	0	0	9
Finance	0	0	8	0	8
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	0	0	0	0	0
Sports Communication	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	18	282	58	560	918

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By David Lazich under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.