Blackburn College Business Programs

Located in Carlinville, Illinois, Blackburn College is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Carlinville is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

Where Is Blackburn College?

Contact details for Blackburn are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	700 College Ave, Carlinville, IL 62626
Phone:	217-854-3231
Website:	www.blackburn.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/Blackburn.College?fref=ts
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/BlckbrnAdmssn

How Do I Get Into Blackburn?

You can apply to Blackburn online at: blackburn.edu/application/

Admission Requirements for Blackburn

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	considered but not required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Blackburn?

Blackburn has an acceptance rate of 55%, which means it is fairly selective. Take that into account when you are working on your application and gathering requested materials. Do what you can to stand out among other applicants.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 52%, and the acceptance rate for women is 58%.

Average Test Scores

About 80% of students accepted to Blackburn submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 460 and 550. Math scores were between 430 and 528.

Blackburn received ACT scores from 40% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 16 and 22. Math scores were between 17 and 23. Composite scores were between 17 and 23.

Can I Afford Blackburn College?

The overall average net price of Blackburn is $20,761. 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

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Blackburn, approximately 82% of students took out student loans averaging $5,490 a year. That adds up to $21,960 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Blackburn is 8.6%. 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.

Blackburn College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 516 undergraduate students at Blackburn, with 504 being full-time and 12 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 504 full-time undergraduates at Blackburn, 44% are male and 56% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	6
Black or African American	45
Hispanic or Latino	34
White	364
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	51

Geographic Diversity

Illinois students aren't the only ones who study at Blackburn College. At this time, 14 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 7 countries are represented at Blackburn. The most popular countries sending students to the school are New Zealand, Canada, and Netherlands.

Online Learning at Blackburn College

In 2019-2020, 444 students took at least one online class at the school.

Online Growth Rankings of Blackburn

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Blackburn College was 3,925.0%. This is the #30 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Blackburn regardless of major.

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%.

Blackburn College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
Organizational Leadership	4	4
Accounting	3	3
Interior Design Management	3	3
General Business Administration and Management	2	2
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	2	2
Human Resources Development	0	0
TOTAL	14	14

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 Rept0n1x under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.