Kentucky Wesleyan College Business Programs

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.

Where Is Kentucky Wesleyan College?

Contact details for Wesleyan are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3000 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301
Phone:	270-926-3111
Website:	https://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	required
High School Rank	considered but not required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Wesleyan?

With an acceptance rate of 60%, Wesleyan does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 60% of accepted students are men and 40% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 56%, and the acceptance rate for women is 68%.

Average Test Scores

About 18% 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 460 and 540. Math scores were between 450 and 550.

Wesleyan received ACT scores from 86% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 17 and 25. Math scores were between 17 and 24. Composite scores were between 18 and 25.

Can I Afford Kentucky Wesleyan College?

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 74% of students took out student loans averaging $9,281 a year. That adds up to $37,124 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Wesleyan is 10.4%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.

Kentucky Wesleyan College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 887 undergraduate students at Wesleyan, with 815 being full-time and 72 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 815 full-time undergraduates at Wesleyan, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	8
Black or African American	117
Hispanic or Latino	26
White	551
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	113

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

In 2019-2020, 197 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.

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 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of Wesleyan

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Kentucky Wesleyan College was 32.6%. This is the #729 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Wesleyan regardless of major.

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
General Business/Commerce	#128
General Business/Commerce	#128

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%.

Kentucky Wesleyan College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
General Business/Commerce	27	27
Accounting	6	6
TOTAL	33	33

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 Matthewru under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.