Berea College Business Programs

Berea College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Berea, Kentucky. Berea is a great place for students who enjoy small town life.

Where Is Berea College?

Contact details for Berea are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	101 Chestnut Street, Berea, KY 40404-2182
Phone:	859-985-3000
Website:	https://www.berea.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/bereacollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/bereacollege

How Do I Get Into Berea?

You can apply to Berea online at: https://www.berea.edu/admissions/applying-for-admission/

Admission Requirements for Berea

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Berea?

You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to Berea. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 33%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 40% of accepted students are men and 60% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 34%, and the acceptance rate for women is 32%.

Average Test Scores

About 13% of students accepted to Berea submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 540 and 640. Math scores were between 540 and 640.

Berea received ACT scores from 87% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 21 and 27. Math scores were between 21 and 27. Composite scores were between 21 and 27.

Can I Afford Berea College?

The overall average net price of Berea is $5,687. 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

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Berea, approximately 10% of students took out student loans averaging $2,391 a year. That adds up to $9,564 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Berea is 12.0%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.

Berea College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,432 undergraduate students at Berea, with 1,423 being full-time and 9 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,423 full-time undergraduates at Berea, 40% are male and 60% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Berea College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	43
Black or African American	250
Hispanic or Latino	202
White	706
International Students	91
Other Races/Ethnicities	131

Geographic Diversity

Kentucky students aren't the only ones who study at Berea College. At this time, 25 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 77 countries are represented at Berea. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Haiti.

Online Learning at Berea College

In 2019-2020, 1,415 students took at least one online class at the school.

Berea College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	30	30
General Economics	4	4
TOTAL	34	34

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 Rachid Hogerhuis under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.