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Brenau University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Gainesville, Georgia. The location of Brenau is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

61 Undergraduate Degrees
139 Graduate Degrees
$38,237 Avg Cost After Aid (Undergrad)
92% Acceptance Rate

Where Is Brenau University?

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Contact details for Brenau are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 500 Washington Street Se, Gainesville, GA 30501-3668
Phone: 770-534-6299
Website: www.brenau.edu
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/brenauuniversity
Twitter: http://twitter.com/BrenauU

How Do I Get Into Brenau?

You can apply to Brenau online at: https://www.brenau.edu/apply/

Admission Requirements for Brenau

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Brenau?

92% Acceptance Rate
89% Of Accepted Are Women
51% Submit SAT Scores
Brenau has the high acceptance rate of 92%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 11% of accepted students are men and 89% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 85%, and the acceptance rate for women is 93%.

Average Test Scores

About 51% of students accepted to Brenau submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 490 and 600. Math scores were between 440 and 560.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Brenau University  ( 490 to 600 )
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800

SAT Math Scores for Brenau University  ( 440 to 560 )
200
800
Brenau received ACT scores from 23% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 15 and 22. Math scores were between 16 and 23. Composite scores were between 17 and 23.

ACT English Scores for Brenau University  ( 15 to 22 )
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ACT Math Scores for Brenau University  ( 16 to 23 )
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36
ACT Composite Scores for Brenau University  ( 17 to 23 )
1
36

Can I Afford Brenau University?

$38,237 Net Price
64% Take Out Loans
6.1% Loan Default Rate
The overall average net price of Brenau is $38,237. 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 Brenau, approximately 64% of students took out student loans averaging $7,931 a year. That adds up to $31,724 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Brenau is 6.1%. 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.

Brenau University Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,095 Full-Time Undergraduates
92% Women
42% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 1,710 undergraduate students at Brenau, with 1,095 being full-time and 615 being part-time.

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There are also 1,103 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,095 full-time undergraduates at Brenau, 8% are male and 92% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 25
Black or African American 286
Hispanic or Latino 125
White 517
International Students 85
Other Races/Ethnicities 57

Geographic Diversity

Georgia students aren't the only ones who study at Brenau University. At this time, 7 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 25 countries are represented at Brenau. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Saudi Arabia, and United Kingdom.

Online Learning at Brenau University

1,322 Took All Classes Online
1,969 Took At Least One Class Online
1.7% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2019-2020, 1,969 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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This school is the 11th most popular in Georgia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Brenau

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Brenau University was $31,720 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Brenau 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
Other Finance and Financial Management Services #1 #1
General Organizational Communication #10 #10
Entrepreneurial Studies #13 #13
Entrepreneurship #16 #16
Organizational Behavior Studies #24 #24
Project Management #25 #25
Business Management & Marketing #31 #31
Other Business, Management & Marketing #31 #31
Public Relations & Advertising #33 #33
Finance #39 #39
Finance & Financial Management #57 #57
Management Information Systems #67 #61
General Management Information Systems #67 #61
Organizational Leadership #68 #68
Operations Management #72 #72

Online Growth Rankings of Brenau

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Brenau University was 1.7%. This is the #1,464 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Brenau regardless of major.

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

Major Growth Rate Rank
Other Finance and Financial Management Services #11
General Organizational Communication #31
Organizational Behavior Studies #48
Other Business, Management & Marketing #50
Business Management & Marketing #50
Operations Management #56
Project Management #67
General Management Information Systems #88
Finance #106
Public Relations & Advertising #108
Entrepreneurship #119
Management Information Systems #120
Finance & Financial Management #157
Entrepreneurial Studies #160
Interior Design Management #168
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration #178
Marketing/Marketing Management, General #215
Marketing #252
Human Resource Management #295
Organizational Leadership #297
General Business/Commerce #350
General Business/Commerce #350
Accounting #406

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%.

Brenau University Business Concentrations

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

Major Bachelor’s Graduate Certificate Master’s TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management 0 1 48 49
Organizational Behavior Studies 0 0 34 34
Accounting 15 0 13 28
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration 5 3 13 21
Organizational Leadership 18 0 0 18
General Business/Commerce 17 0 0 17
Marketing/Marketing Management, General 5 0 7 12
Project Management 0 2 7 9
Business Management & Marketing 0 1 4 5
Finance 0 0 2 2
General Management Information Systems 0 0 2 2
Interior Design Management 0 0 1 1
Entrepreneurship 0 0 1 1
Fashion Merchandising 1 0 0 1
Operations Management 0 0 0 0
Other Finance and Financial Management Services 0 0 0 0
General Organizational Communication 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 61 7 132 200

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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