Welch College Overview

Welch College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Gallatin, Tennessee. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of Welch.

What Is Welch College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Welch since the student to facuty ratio is 8 to 1.
• Students at Welch 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%.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the post-master's certificate is the highest award a student can attain at Welch.
• For the <nil> academic year, 49% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Welch College?

Contact details for Welch are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1045 Bison Trail, Gallatin, TN 37066-8460
Phone:	615-675-5255
Website:	www.welch.edu

How Do I Get Into Welch?

You can apply to Welch online at: welch.edu/admissions/apply/

Welch College has an open admissions policy, so you don't have to worry about getting into the school if you have a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Can I Afford Welch College?

The overall average net price of Welch is $28,277. 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 Welch, approximately 38% of students took out student loans averaging $8,786 a year. That adds up to $35,144 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Welch is 2.6%. 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.

Welch College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 308 undergraduate students at Welch, with 181 being full-time and 127 being part-time.

There are also 27 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 181 full-time undergraduates at Welch, 52% are male and 48% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	0
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	151
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Geographic Diversity

Tennessee students aren't the only ones who study at Welch College. At this time, 20 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Online Learning at Welch College

In 2020-2021, 51 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 37th most popular in Tennessee for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Welch

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Welch College was 1.3%. This is the #1,661 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Welch 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 The Peep Holes under License

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