University of Holy Cross Business Programs

Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, University of Holy Cross is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of UHC is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

Where Is University of Holy Cross?

Contact details for UHC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	4123 Woodland Drive, New Orleans, LA 70131-7399
Phone:	504-394-7744
Website:	uhcno.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/OLHCCStudentLife
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/OLHCC

How Do I Get Into UHC?

You can apply to UHC online at: uhcno.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for UHC

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into UHC?

UHC has an acceptance rate of 53%, 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 20% of accepted students are men and 80% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 53%, and the acceptance rate for women is 53%.

Can I Afford University of Holy Cross?

The overall average net price of UHC is $28,072. 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 UHC, approximately 70% of students took out student loans averaging $5,765 a year. That adds up to $23,060 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at UHC is 7.0%. 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.

University of Holy Cross Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 784 undergraduate students at UHC, with 344 being full-time and 440 being part-time.

There are also 353 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 344 full-time undergraduates at UHC, 17% are male and 83% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	14
Black or African American	84
Hispanic or Latino	54
White	167
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	25

Over 3 countries are represented at UHC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Jamaica, Philippines, and Bulgaria.

Online Learning at University of Holy Cross

In 2019-2020, 1,131 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 16th 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 Affordability Rankings of UHC

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at University of Holy Cross was $15,280 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how UHC is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Organizational Leadership	#54	#28

Online Growth Rankings of UHC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at University of Holy Cross was 37.9%. This is the #678 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at UHC regardless of major.

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Organizational Leadership	#96
General Business Administration and Management	#409

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%.

University of Holy Cross Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	3	7	10
Accounting	1	0	1
Organizational Leadership	1	0	1
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	0	0	0
TOTAL	5	7	12

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 Infrogmation of New Orleans under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.