Liberty University Business Programs

Liberty University is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. The location of Liberty University is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

Liberty University 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 Liberty University.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#5	Best Value Business Administration & Management Doctor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#7	Most Popular Business Administration & Management Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#11	Most Popular Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#11	Best Value Public Relations & Advertising Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#17	Most Popular Marketing Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#20	Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#25	Most Popular Management Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#30	Most Popular Business & Commerce Associate Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#33	Best Value Management Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#35	Best Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Liberty University has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#12	Best General Business/Commerce Associate Degree Schools	College Factual
#34	Best Organizational Leadership Schools	College Factual
#183	Best Accounting Schools	College Factual
#196	Best General Business Administration and Management Schools	College Factual
#200	Best Business Administration & Management Schools	College Factual
#251	Best Business, Management & Marketing Schools	College Factual

Where Is Liberty University?

Contact details for Liberty University are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1971 University Blvd, Lynchburg, VA 24515
Phone:	434-582-2000
Website:	www.liberty.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/LibertyUniversity?utm_source=liberty.edu&utm_medium=footer&utm_campaign=lu_facebook
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/libertyu

How Do I Get Into Liberty University?

You can apply to Liberty University online at: www.liberty.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for Liberty University

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	neither required nor recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Liberty University?

Liberty University has an acceptance rate of 50%, 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 40% of accepted students are men and 60% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 49%, and the acceptance rate for women is 51%.

Average Test Scores

About 48% of students accepted to Liberty University submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 640. Math scores were between 510 and 610.

Liberty University received ACT scores from 27% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 19 and 30. Math scores were between 19 and 27. Composite scores were between 21 and 29.

Can I Afford Liberty University?

The overall average net price of Liberty University is $29,057. 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 Liberty University, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $8,154 a year. That adds up to $32,616 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Liberty University is 6.3%. 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.

Liberty University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 47,988 undergraduate students at Liberty University, with 30,168 being full-time and 17,820 being part-time.

There are also 45,361 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 30,168 full-time undergraduates at Liberty University, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	523
Black or African American	2,374
Hispanic or Latino	1,929
White	18,492
International Students	433
Other Races/Ethnicities	6,417

Geographic Diversity

Virginia students aren't the only ones who study at Liberty University. At this time, all 50 states and the District of Columbia are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 92 countries are represented at Liberty University. The most popular countries sending students to the school are South Korea, Canada, and China.

Online Learning at Liberty University

In 2019-2020, 86,390 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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

Online Affordability Rankings of Liberty University Rankings

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Liberty University was $21,587 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Liberty University is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	#4	#4
Public Relations & Advertising	#7	#4
General Management Information Systems	#22	#22
Marketing	#24	#24
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	#24	#24
Finance	#34	#34
Project Management	#39	#39
Accounting	#40	#40
Management Information Systems	#40	#40
Finance & Financial Management	#40	#40

Online Growth Rankings of Liberty University

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Liberty University was 6.9%. This is the #689 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Liberty University regardless of major.

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	#7
General Organizational Communication	#10
Project Management	#52
Public Relations & Advertising	#56
Finance	#84
General Management Information Systems	#96
Management Information Systems	#113
Finance & Financial Management	#127
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	#150
Marketing	#201
General Business/Commerce	#220
General Business/Commerce	#220
Accounting	#268
Accounting	#466

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%.

Liberty University Business Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	24	0	1,613	98	1,545	81	3,361
Accounting	62	36	212	0	188	0	498
General Business/Commerce	0	143	1	0	0	0	144
General Management Information Systems	10	23	88	0	23	0	144
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	0	0	0	0	61	0	61
Project Management	15	0	0	0	41	0	56
Finance	0	0	0	0	35	0	35
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	0	0	0	0	22	0	22
General Organizational Communication	0	0	0	2	0	0	2
TOTAL	111	202	1,914	100	1,915	81	4,323

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.