Tennessee Wesleyan University Business Programs

Located in Athens, Tennessee, Tennessee Wesleyan University is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding location of Athens is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

Where Is Tennessee Wesleyan University?

Contact details for TWU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	204 East College Street, Athens, TN 37303
Phone:	423-745-7504
Website:	www.tnwesleyan.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/TNWesleyan
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/TNWesleyan

How Do I Get Into TWU?

You can apply to TWU online at: portal.tnwesleyan.edu/ICS/

Admission Requirements for TWU

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into TWU?

With an acceptance rate of 61%, TWU 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 34% of accepted students are men and 66% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 62%, and the acceptance rate for women is 60%.

Average Test Scores

About 14% of students accepted to TWU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 420 and 530. Math scores were between 430 and 530.

TWU received ACT scores from 82% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 17 and 25. Math scores were between 19 and 26. Composite scores were between 19 and 25.

Can I Afford Tennessee Wesleyan University?

The overall average net price of TWU is $21,610. 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 TWU, approximately 57% of students took out student loans averaging $6,032 a year. That adds up to $24,128 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at TWU is 7.7%. 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.

Tennessee Wesleyan University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 990 undergraduate students at TWU, with 948 being full-time and 42 being part-time.

There are also 126 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 948 full-time undergraduates at TWU, 38% are male and 62% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	11
Black or African American	92
Hispanic or Latino	52
White	681
International Students	54
Other Races/Ethnicities	58

Geographic Diversity

Tennessee students aren't the only ones who study at Tennessee Wesleyan University. At this time, 18 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 33 countries are represented at TWU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are United Kingdom, Spain, and Brazil.

Online Learning at Tennessee Wesleyan University

In 2019-2020, 180 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 18th most popular in Tennessee for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of TWU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Tennessee Wesleyan University was 36.2%. This is the #696 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at TWU regardless of major.

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Accounting	#118
Accounting	#205
General Business Administration and Management	#427

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%.

Tennessee Wesleyan 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	51	18	69
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	16	0	16
Accounting	9	6	15
Finance	7	0	7
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	1	0	1
TOTAL	84	24	108

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 Brian Stansberry under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.