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Kentucky Wesleyan College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Owensboro, Kentucky. Owensboro is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

29 Undergraduate Degrees
$33,866 Avg Cost After Aid (Undergrad)
69% Acceptance Rate

Where Is Kentucky Wesleyan College?

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Contact details for Wesleyan are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 3000 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301
Phone: 270-926-3111
Website: kwc.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kywesleyan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kywesleyan

How Do I Get Into Wesleyan?

You can apply to Wesleyan online at: https://kwc.edu/application-for-admissions/

Admission Requirements for Wesleyan

Submission Required?
High School GPA 1
High School Rank 5
High School Transcript 1
College Prep Program 3
Recommendations 3
SAT or ACT Scores 5
TOEFL 1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Wesleyan?

69% Acceptance Rate
44% Of Accepted Are Women
9% Submit SAT Scores
Wesleyan has an acceptance rate of 69%, 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 56% of accepted students are men and 44% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 67%, and the acceptance rate for women is 70%.

Average Test Scores

About 9% of students accepted to Wesleyan 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 490 and 610.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 490 to 600 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 490 to 610 )
200
800
Wesleyan received ACT scores from 71% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 17 and 24. Math scores were between 16 and 0. Composite scores were between 17 and 23.

ACT English Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 17 to 24 )
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36
ACT Composite Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 17 to 23 )
1
36

Can I Afford Kentucky Wesleyan College?

$33,866 Net Price
66% Take Out Loans
The overall average net price of Wesleyan is $33,866. 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 Wesleyan, approximately 66% of students took out student loans averaging $8,305 a year. That adds up to $33,220 over four years for those students.

Kentucky Wesleyan College Undergraduate Student Diversity

757 Full-Time Undergraduates
47% Women
19% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 811 undergraduate students at Wesleyan, with 757 being full-time and 54 being part-time.

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Gender Diversity

Of the 757 full-time undergraduates at Wesleyan, 53% are male and 47% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 10
Black or African American 102
Hispanic or Latino 24
White 527
International Students 5
Other Races/Ethnicities 89

Geographic Diversity

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

Over 9 countries are represented at Wesleyan. The most popular countries sending students to the school are United Kingdom, Congo, and Kenya.

Online Learning at Kentucky Wesleyan College

93 Took All Classes Online
247 Took At Least One Class Online
In 2022-2023, 247 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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This school is the 16th most popular in Kentucky for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2022-2023.

Kentucky Wesleyan College Business Concentrations

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

Major Bachelor’s TOTAL
General Business/Commerce 23 23
Accounting 6 6
TOTAL 29 29

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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