Berea College Overview

Berea College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Berea, Kentucky. Berea is a great place for students who enjoy small town life.

What Is Berea College Known For?

• Berea has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 9 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at Berea is 2%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The highest award offered at Berea is the bachelor's degree.
• In <nil>, 87% of the faculty were full-time.
• The average Berea student graduates in 4.2 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Berea College?

Contact details for Berea are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	101 Chestnut Street, Berea, KY 40404-2182
Phone:	859-985-3000
Website:	www.berea.edu

How Do I Get Into Berea?

You can apply to Berea online at: https://www.berea.edu/admissions/applying-for-admission/

Admission Requirements for Berea

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Berea?

You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to Berea. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 33%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 41% of accepted students are men and 59% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 32%, and the acceptance rate for women is 33%.

Average Test Scores

About 8% of students accepted to Berea submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 555 and 640. Math scores were between 563 and 628.

Berea received ACT scores from 46% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 22 and 29. Math scores were between 20 and 26. Composite scores were between 23 and 28.

Can I Afford Berea College?

The overall average net price of Berea is $5,687. 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 Berea, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $2,303 a year. That adds up to $9,212 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Berea is 1.7%. 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.

Berea College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,468 undergraduate students at Berea, with 1,432 being full-time and 36 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,432 full-time undergraduates at Berea, 41% are male and 59% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	54
Black or African American	261
Hispanic or Latino	204
White	666
International Students	114
Other Races/Ethnicities	133

Geographic Diversity

Kentucky students aren't the only ones who study at Berea College. At this time, 25 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 77 countries are represented at Berea. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Haiti.

Online Learning at Berea College

In 2020-2021, 10 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Berea 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 Rachid Hogerhuis under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.