McNeese State University Business Programs

McNeese State University is a public institution located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

Where Is McNeese State University?

Contact details for McNeese are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	4205 Ryan St, Lake Charles, LA 70605
Phone:	337-475-5000
Website:	www.mcneese.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/McNeeseStateU
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/McNeese

How Do I Get Into McNeese?

You can apply to McNeese online at: https://mymcneese.mcneese.edu/web/guest/home

Admission Requirements for McNeese

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into McNeese?

McNeese has an acceptance rate of 63%, 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 67%, and the acceptance rate for women is 61%.

Average Test Scores

About 11% of students accepted to McNeese submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 620. Math scores were between 520 and 620.

McNeese received ACT scores from 92% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 20 and 26. Math scores were between 19 and 24. Composite scores were between 20 and 25.

Can I Afford McNeese State University?

The overall average net price of McNeese is $23,539. 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 McNeese, approximately 46% of students took out student loans averaging $5,101 a year. That adds up to $20,404 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at McNeese is 8.3%. 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.

McNeese State University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 6,674 undergraduate students at McNeese, with 5,401 being full-time and 1,273 being part-time.

There are also 610 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 5,401 full-time undergraduates at McNeese, 40% are male and 60% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	83
Black or African American	900
Hispanic or Latino	212
White	3,651
International Students	299
Other Races/Ethnicities	256

Geographic Diversity

Louisiana students aren't the only ones who study at McNeese State University. At this time, 17 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 62 countries are represented at McNeese. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Nepal, Saudi Arabia, and India.

Online Learning at McNeese State University

In 2019-2020, 6,368 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 6th most popular in Louisiana for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of McNeese

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at McNeese State University was 25.5%. This is the #834 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at McNeese regardless of major.

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	#3
Public Relations & Advertising	#46

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%.

McNeese State University Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	111	34	145
Accounting	47	0	47
Finance	32	0	32
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	22	0	22
Other Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	0	0	0
TOTAL	212	34	246

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 Gkarg under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.