Life University Overview

Located in Marietta, Georgia, Life University is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

What Is Life University Known For?

• Students at Life 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 doctor's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Life.
• In <nil>, 60% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Life bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $45,512 a year. That's about 12% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Life University?

Contact details for Life are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1269 Barclay Circle, Marietta, GA 30060
Phone:	800-543-3202
Website:	www.life.edu

How Do I Get Into Life?

You can apply to Life online at: https://apply.life.edu/Datatel.ERecruiting.Web.External/Pages/welcome.aspx

Admission Requirements for Life

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Neither required nor recommended
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 Life?

Life has the high acceptance rate of 96%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 58% of accepted students are men and 42% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 94%, and the acceptance rate for women is 98%.

Average Test Scores

About 33% of students accepted to Life submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 450 and 540. Math scores were between 440 and 545.

Life received ACT scores from 15% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 14 and 21. Math scores were between 16 and 23. Composite scores were between 17 and 21.

Can I Afford Life University?

The overall average net price of Life is $35,169. 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 Life, approximately 65% of students took out student loans averaging $5,932 a year. That adds up to $23,728 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Life is 2.9%. 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.

Life University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 921 undergraduate students at Life, with 746 being full-time and 175 being part-time.

There are also 1,866 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 746 full-time undergraduates at Life, 52% are male and 48% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	23
Black or African American	174
Hispanic or Latino	148
White	248
International Students	116
Other Races/Ethnicities	37

Geographic Diversity

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

Over 52 countries are represented at Life. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, China, and Canada.

Online Learning at Life University

There are 9 bachelor’s degree and 3 master’s degree programs available online at Life. In 2020-2021, 986 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 35th most popular in Georgia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Life

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Life University was 735.0%. This is the #128 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Life 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 Amerique under License

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