Belmont Abbey College Overview

Belmont Abbey College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Belmont, North Carolina. Belmont is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Belmont Abbey College Known For?

• Students at BAC have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 3%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at BAC is the master's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 62% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, BAC bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $46,832 a year. That's about 15% more than their peers at other schools.
• It takes the average BAC student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Belmont Abbey College?

Contact details for BAC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	100 Belmont-Mt Holly Road, Belmont, NC 28012-1802
Phone:	704-461-6700
Website:	www.belmontabbeycollege.edu

How Do I Get Into BAC?

You can apply to BAC online at: belmontabbeycollege.edu/apply/

Admission Requirements for BAC

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into BAC?

BAC has the high acceptance rate of 99%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 51% of accepted students are men and 49% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 99%, and the acceptance rate for women is 99%.

Average Test Scores

About 12% of students accepted to BAC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 528 and 623. Math scores were between 500 and 583.

BAC received ACT scores from 17% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 16 and 24. Math scores were between 17 and 25. Composite scores were between 18 and 25.

Can I Afford Belmont Abbey College?

The overall average net price of BAC is $24,446. 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 BAC, approximately 61% of students took out student loans averaging $7,517 a year. That adds up to $30,068 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at BAC is 3.1%. 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.

Belmont Abbey College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,507 undergraduate students at BAC, with 1,363 being full-time and 144 being part-time.

There are also 10 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,363 full-time undergraduates at BAC, 53% are male and 47% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	25
Black or African American	135
Hispanic or Latino	46
White	870
International Students	45
Other Races/Ethnicities	242

Geographic Diversity

North Carolina students aren't the only ones who study at Belmont Abbey College. At this time, 34 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 24 countries are represented at BAC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, New Zealand, and Germany.

Online Learning at Belmont Abbey College

There are 3 bachelor’s degree and 3 master’s degree programs available online at BAC. In 2020-2021, 344 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 80th most popular in North Carolina for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

This is the #1,689 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at BAC regardless of major.

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 Upstateherd under License

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