Meredith College Business Programs

Meredith College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

Where Is Meredith College?

Contact details for Meredith are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3800 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27607-5298
Phone:	919-760-8600
Website:	www.meredith.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/MeredithCollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/meredithcollege

How Do I Get Into Meredith?

You can apply to Meredith online at: www.meredith.edu/admissions/apply

Admission Requirements for Meredith

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	considered but not required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	considered but not required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Meredith?

Meredith has an acceptance rate of 72%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Average Test Scores

About 67% of students accepted to Meredith submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 510 and 620. Math scores were between 498 and 580.

Meredith received ACT scores from 57% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 18 and 25. Math scores were between 17 and 24. Composite scores were between 19 and 25.

Can I Afford Meredith College?

The overall average net price of Meredith is $31,399. 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

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 Meredith, approximately 68% of students took out student loans averaging $7,911 a year. That adds up to $31,644 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Meredith is 4.1%. 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.

Meredith College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,521 undergraduate students at Meredith, with 1,468 being full-time and 53 being part-time.

There are also 281 graduate students at the school.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	57
Black or African American	135
Hispanic or Latino	161
White	970
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	129

Geographic Diversity

North Carolina students aren't the only ones who study at Meredith College. At this time, 15 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 18 countries are represented at Meredith. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Kenya, and Afghanistan.

Online Learning at Meredith College

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

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

Online Growth Rankings of Meredith

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Meredith College was 38.8%. This is the #665 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Meredith 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%.

Meredith 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	14	12	26
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	10	2	12
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	10	0	10
Fashion Merchandising	10	0	10
Public Relations, Advertising, & Applied Communication	7	0	7
Accounting	6	0	6
General Economics	3	0	3
Meeting and Event Planning	2	0	2
Entrepreneurship	0	1	1
Project Management	0	0	0
TOTAL	62	15	77

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 Abbylabar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.