Brooklyn College Business Programs

Brooklyn College is a public institution situated in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

Brooklyn College 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 Brooklyn College.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#14	Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#53	Most Popular Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Where Is Brooklyn College?

Contact details for Brooklyn College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2900 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210
Phone:	718-951-5000
Website:	www.brooklyn.cuny.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brooklyn-College/111090580325
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/bklyncollege411

How Do I Get Into Brooklyn College?

You can apply to Brooklyn College online at: www.cuny.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/cuny-application/

Admission Requirements for Brooklyn College

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Brooklyn College?

You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to Brooklyn College. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 50%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 42% of accepted students are men and 58% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 47%, and the acceptance rate for women is 52%.

Average Test Scores

About 97% of students accepted to Brooklyn College 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 520 and 600.

Brooklyn College received ACT scores from 3% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 21 and 32. Math scores were between 21 and 28. Composite scores were between 22 and 29.

Can I Afford Brooklyn College?

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 Brooklyn College, approximately 5% of students took out student loans averaging $5,745 a year. That adds up to $22,980 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Brooklyn College is 4.5%. 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.

Brooklyn College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 14,969 undergraduate students at Brooklyn College, with 11,401 being full-time and 3,568 being part-time.

There are also 2,766 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 11,401 full-time undergraduates at Brooklyn College, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	2,811
Black or African American	2,112
Hispanic or Latino	2,689
White	3,074
International Students	313
Other Races/Ethnicities	402

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Brooklyn College. At this time, 17 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 170 countries are represented at Brooklyn College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, South Korea, and India.

Online Learning at Brooklyn College

In 2019-2020, 17,723 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of Brooklyn College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Brooklyn College was 7,972.0%. This is the #30 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Brooklyn College 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%.

Brooklyn College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	522	120	642
Accounting	293	27	320
Finance	92	0	92
General Economics	24	0	24
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping	0	0	0
Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management	0	0	0
TOTAL	931	147	1,078

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 Gabriel Liendo under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.