Carlow University Business Programs

Carlow University is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

Where Is Carlow University?

Contact details for Carlow are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3333 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3165
Phone:	412-578-6000
Website:	www.carlow.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/CarlowUniversity
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/CarlowU

How Do I Get Into Carlow?

You can apply to Carlow online at: https://www.carlow.edu/admissions-aid/admissions/apply/

Admission Requirements for Carlow

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Carlow?

Since Carlow has an acceptance rate of 94%, it is not too hard to gain acceptance into the school. Still, you need to be sure you complete your application in full and send in any other requested documents.

Approximately 16% of accepted students are men and 84% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 89%, and the acceptance rate for women is 96%.

Average Test Scores

About 92% of students accepted to Carlow submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 500 and 580. Math scores were between 480 and 560.

Carlow received ACT scores from 28% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 19 and 23. Math scores were between 17 and 23. Composite scores were between 19 and 24.

Can I Afford Carlow University?

The overall average net price of Carlow is $32,883. 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 Carlow, approximately 98% of students took out student loans averaging $9,412 a year. That adds up to $37,648 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Carlow is 4.1%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Carlow University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,277 undergraduate students at Carlow, with 1,009 being full-time and 268 being part-time.

There are also 699 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,009 full-time undergraduates at Carlow, 17% are male and 83% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	37
Black or African American	131
Hispanic or Latino	29
White	737
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	72

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Carlow University. At this time, 9 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 7 countries are represented at Carlow. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia.

Online Learning at Carlow University

In 2019-2020, 1,826 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 49th most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Carlow

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Carlow University was $31,446 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Carlow 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 Human Resources Management and Services	#9	#9

Online Growth Rankings of Carlow

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Carlow University was 30.5%. This is the #756 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Carlow regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Carlow 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 Carlow.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Human Resources Management and Services	#10
Project Management	#33
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	#70
Human Resource Management	#131
General Business Administration and Management	#498

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%.

Carlow 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	3	0	43	46
Auditing	5	0	0	5
Accounting	4	0	0	4
Other Human Resources Management and Services	2	0	0	2
Project Management	0	1	0	1
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	0	1	0	1
TOTAL	14	2	43	59

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 Daderot under License

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