Berry College Overview

Located in Mount Berry, Georgia, Berry College is a private not-for-profit institution. Mount Berry is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Berry College Known For?

• Students at Berry have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 1%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at Berry is the master's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 78% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Berry bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $47,499 a year. That's about 16% more than their peers at other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.1 years for students from Berry to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Berry College?

Contact details for Berry are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2277 Martha Berry Hwy Nw, Mount Berry, GA 30149
Phone:	706-232-5374
Website:	www.berry.edu

How Do I Get Into Berry?

You can apply to Berry online at: https://www.berry.edu/admission/how-to-apply/

Admission Requirements for Berry

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Berry?

With an acceptance rate of 70%, Berry 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 33% of accepted students are men and 67% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 62%, and the acceptance rate for women is 74%.

Average Test Scores

About 12% of students accepted to Berry submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 590 and 678. Math scores were between 530 and 638.

Berry received ACT scores from 34% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 24 and 32. Math scores were between 22 and 28. Composite scores were between 24 and 30.

Can I Afford Berry College?

The overall average net price of Berry is $29,531. 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 Berry, approximately 48% of students took out student loans averaging $7,680 a year. That adds up to $30,720 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Berry is 1.0%. 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.

Berry College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,172 undergraduate students at Berry, with 2,157 being full-time and 15 being part-time.

There are also 131 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,157 full-time undergraduates at Berry, 36% are male and 64% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	56
Black or African American	176
Hispanic or Latino	193
White	1,608
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	115

Geographic Diversity

Georgia students aren't the only ones who study at Berry College. At this time, 26 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 13 countries are represented at Berry. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Costa Rica, Canada, and Germany.

Online Learning at Berry College

In 2020-2021, 147 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of Berry

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Berry College was 1,500.0%. This is the #77 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Berry regardless of major.

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%.

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 Froggerlaura under License

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