Dallas Baptist University Overview

Dallas Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Dallas, Texas. The location of DBU is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is Dallas Baptist University Known For?

• Although it may not be available for every major, the doctor's degree is the highest award a student can attain at DBU.
• In <nil>, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from DBU with a bachelor's degree make about $53,741 a year. That's 32% more than those who graduate from other schools.

Where Is Dallas Baptist University?

Contact details for DBU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3000 Mountain Creek Parkway, Dallas, TX 75211-9299
Phone:	214-333-7100
Website:	www.dbu.edu

How Do I Get Into DBU?

You can apply to DBU online at: https://www.dbu.edu/applications

Admission Requirements for DBU

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into DBU?

DBU has the high acceptance rate of 94%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 35% of accepted students are men and 65% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 94%, and the acceptance rate for women is 94%.

Average Test Scores

About 44% of students accepted to DBU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 470 and 610. Math scores were between 470 and 590.

DBU received ACT scores from 25% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT Composite scores ranged between 19 and 26.

Can I Afford Dallas Baptist University?

The overall average net price of DBU is $34,199. 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 DBU, approximately 43% of students took out student loans averaging $9,842 a year. That adds up to $39,368 over four years for those students.

Dallas Baptist University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,067 undergraduate students at DBU, with 2,300 being full-time and 767 being part-time.

There are also 1,273 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,300 full-time undergraduates at DBU, 43% are male and 57% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Dallas Baptist University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	54
Black or African American	202
Hispanic or Latino	377
White	1,357
International Students	113
Other Races/Ethnicities	197

Geographic Diversity

Texas students aren't the only ones who study at Dallas Baptist University. At this time, 20 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 61 countries are represented at DBU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, India, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Dallas Baptist University

There are 18 bachelor’s degree and 18 master’s degree programs available online at DBU. In 2020-2021, 2,121 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of DBU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Dallas Baptist University was -3.3%. This is the #1,898 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at DBU 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 Regrothenberger under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.