Beacon College Overview

Beacon College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Leesburg, Florida. Leesburg is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Beacon College Known For?

• Students at Beacon have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 4%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The bachelor's degree is the highest award offered at Beacon.
• In <nil>, 93% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Beacon College?

Contact details for Beacon are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	105 E Main St, Leesburg, FL 34748
Phone:	352-787-7660
Website:	www.beaconcollege.edu

How Do I Get Into Beacon?

You can apply to Beacon online at: https://app.beaconcollege.edu/login.html?SessionGuid=2f2372c4-a555-420b-b82f-ed02c58975e8

Admission Requirements for Beacon

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Beacon?

Beacon has an acceptance rate of 57%, 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 76% of accepted students are men and 24% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 65%, and the acceptance rate for women is 40%.

Can I Afford Beacon College?

The overall average net price of Beacon is $61,396. 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 Beacon, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $9,390 a year. That adds up to $37,560 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Beacon is 3.5%. 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.

Beacon College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 460 undergraduate students at Beacon, with 418 being full-time and 42 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 418 full-time undergraduates at Beacon, 67% are male and 33% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	23
Black or African American	73
Hispanic or Latino	30
White	260
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	30

Geographic Diversity

Florida students aren't the only ones who study at Beacon College. At this time, 20 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 8 countries are represented at Beacon. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Bahamas, Canada, and United Kingdom.

Online Learning at Beacon College

In 2020-2021, 29 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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 (Ebyabe) under License

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