Brigham Young University - Provo Overview

Located in Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University - Provo is a private not-for-profit institution. The city atmosphere of Provo makes it a great place for students who enjoy having lots of educational and entertainment options.

What Is Brigham Young University - Provo Known For?

• The 2% student loan default rate at BYU is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the doctor's degree is the highest award a student can attain at BYU.
• In 2017-2018, 72% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from BYU with a bachelor's degree make about $59,700 a year. That's 46% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Brigham Young University - Provo Rankings

BYU holds the #3 spot on the Best Colleges in Utah ranking.

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at BYU.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#1	Best Housing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#7	Best Graphic Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#11	Best Specialized Sales Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#26	Best Managerial Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#34	Best Business & Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#61	Best Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#69	Best Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#88	Best Business Administration & Management Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#110	Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#111	Best Business, Management & Marketing Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards BYU has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#12	Best Communications Technologies & Support Schools	College Factual
#46	Best Accounting Schools	College Factual
#66	Best Business Administration & Management Schools	College Factual
#83	Best Business, Management & Marketing Schools	College Factual
#87	Best Education Schools	College Factual
#208	Best Business Schools	Business Degree Central

Where Is Brigham Young University - Provo?

Contact details for BYU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	Main Campus, Provo, UT 84602
Phone:	801-422-4636
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/BYU
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/byu

How Do I Get Into BYU?

You can apply to BYU online at: besmart.com/Admissions

Admission Requirements for BYU

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into BYU?

BYU has an acceptance rate of 69%, 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 44% of accepted students are men and 56% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 65%, and the acceptance rate for women is 73%.

Average Test Scores

About 29% of students accepted to BYU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 610 and 700. Math scores were between 590 and 710.

BYU received ACT scores from 89% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 26 and 34. Math scores were between 25 and 31. Composite scores were between 26 and 32.

Can I Afford Brigham Young University - Provo?

The overall average net price of BYU is $14,308. 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 BYU, approximately 11% of students took out student loans averaging $5,505 a year. That adds up to $22,020 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at BYU 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.

Brigham Young University - Provo Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 33,376 undergraduate students at BYU, with 30,039 being full-time and 3,337 being part-time.

There are also 3,085 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 30,039 full-time undergraduates at BYU, 49% are male and 51% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Brigham Young University - Provo students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	541
Black or African American	117
Hispanic or Latino	2,144
White	24,347
International Students	914
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,976

Geographic Diversity

Utah students aren't the only ones who study at Brigham Young University - Provo. At this time, 49 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 100 countries are represented at BYU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, South Korea, and China.

Online Learning at Brigham Young University - Provo

In 2019-2020, 33,708 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of BYU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Brigham Young University - Provo was 509.4%. This is the #157 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at BYU 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%.

Brigham Young University - Provo Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Accounting	278	162	0	440
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	314	3	1	318
General Psychology	305	7	4	316
Human Development & Family Studies	300	0	0	300
Business Administration & Management	98	198	0	296
Public Relations & Advertising	243	0	0	243
Economics	216	0	0	216
Information Technology	145	69	0	214
Computer Science	181	24	5	210
Mechanical Engineering	157	33	13	203
Teacher Education Grade Specific	191	5	0	196
Health & Physical Education	179	8	0	187
Finance & Financial Management	180	0	0	180
Public Health	167	12	0	179
Teacher Education Subject Specific	161	15	0	176
Romance Languages	162	6	0	168
Statistics	144	10	0	154
General English Literature	129	21	0	150
Nursing	130	11	0	141
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	128	2	8	138
Political Science & Government	133	0	0	133
Microbiological Sciences & Immunology	118	7	4	129
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	108	2	3	113
Communication Sciences	96	17	0	113
Chemical Engineering	97	7	4	108
Civil Engineering	85	19	4	108
Design & Applied Arts	107	0	0	107
Linguistics & Comparative Literature	83	17	0	100
Law	0	0	99	99
Marketing	98	0	0	98
Sociology	90	4	0	94
Communication & Media Studies	71	18	0	89
History	89	0	0	89
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	84	0	2	86
Music	68	15	0	83
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	78	0	0	78
Public Administration	0	71	0	71
Area Studies	69	0	0	69
Geography & Cartography	68	0	0	68
Construction Management	63	3	0	66
Computer Engineering	65	0	0	65
Electrical Engineering	61	0	0	61
Journalism	58	0	0	58
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	53	4	0	57
Fine & Studio Arts	51	6	0	57
Manufacturing Engineering	48	4	0	52
Computer Information Systems	48	3	0	51
Mathematics	30	11	6	47
Business/Managerial Economics	45	0	0	45
Special Education	35	10	0	45
Applied Mathematics	45	0	0	45
Chemistry	28	2	14	44
Slavic, Baltic & Albanian Languages	42	0	0	42
Drama & Theater Arts	42	0	0	42
Entrepreneurial Studies	41	0	0	41
Social Work	0	41	0	41
Human Resource Management	40	0	0	40
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	39	0	0	39
General Business/Commerce	38	0	0	38
Liberal Arts General Studies	37	0	0	37
Allied Health Professions	35	0	0	35
Middle Eastern Semitic Languages	34	0	0	34
Physics	27	3	4	34
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	33	0	0	33
Nutrition Science	25	8	0	33
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	3	21	8	32
Biotechnology	29	2	0	31
East Asian Languages	30	0	0	30
Food Science Technology	24	5	0	29
Zoology	28	0	0	28
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science	27	0	0	27
International Relations & National Security	27	0	0	27
Educational Administration	0	22	3	25
Geological & Earth Sciences	14	10	0	24
Instructional Media Design	0	17	6	23
Dance	23	0	0	23
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology	0	15	7	22
Soil Sciences	21	0	0	21
Biomathematics & Bioinformatics	21	0	0	21
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	19	0	0	19
Publishing	19	0	0	19
Anthropology	17	2	0	19
Philosophy	17	0	0	17
Horticulture	16	0	0	16
Graphic Communications	15	0	0	15
General Family & Consumer Sciences	3	9	1	13
Housing	13	0	0	13
Child Development & Psychology	13	0	0	13
Germanic Languages	12	0	0	12
Mental & Social Health Services	0	10	1	11
Wildlife Management	0	8	3	11
Writing Studies	0	10	0	10
Archeology	10	0	0	10
Religious Education	0	10	0	10
Legal Research	0	9	0	9
Other Visual Art	9	0	0	9
Teaching English or French	0	8	0	8
Classical Languages & Literature	8	0	0	8
Astronomy & Astrophysics	6	0	1	7
Student Counseling	0	0	6	6
Public Policy	0	6	0	6
Intelligence & Command Control Operations	5	0	0	5
Pastoral Counseling & Specialized Ministries	0	5	0	5
Computer Software & Applications	4	0	0	4
Educational Assessment	0	0	4	4
Natural Resources Conservation	0	4	0	4
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	1	1	0	2
Urban & Regional Planning	1	0	0	1
Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing	1	0	0	1
Multilingual Education	0	0	1	1
Museum Studies	0	1	0	1
General Biology	0	0	0	0
Other Education	0	0	0	0
Engineering Technology (Other)	0	0	0	0
Biological & Physical Science	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	6,849	1,033	212	8,094

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 Mwilson3 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.