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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Overview

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Wake Forest is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Known For?

0 Undergraduate Awards
$16,978 Avg Cost After Aid
90% Acceptance Rate
  • Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at SEBTS since the student to facuty ratio is 9 to 1.
  • The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at SEBTS.
  • In <nil>, 87% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary?

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Contact details for SEBTS are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 120 S. Wingate Street, Wake Forest, NC 27587-1889
Phone: 919-761-2100
Website: www.sebts.edu

How Do I Get Into SEBTS?

You can apply to SEBTS online at: www.sebts.edu/admissions-and-aid/application-process/default.aspx

Admission Requirements for SEBTS

Submission Required?
High School GPA Required
High School Rank Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript Required
College Prep Program Neither required nor recommended
Recommendations Required
SAT or ACT Scores Recommended
TOEFL Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into SEBTS?

90% Acceptance Rate
44% Of Accepted Are Women
SEBTS has the high acceptance rate of 90%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 56% of accepted students are men and 44% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 87%, and the acceptance rate for women is 95%.

Can I Afford Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary?

$16,978 Net Price
8% Take Out Loans
The overall average net price of SEBTS is $16,978. 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 SEBTS, approximately 8% of students took out student loans averaging $9,444 a year. That adds up to $37,776 over four years for those students.

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Undergraduate Student Diversity

289 Full-Time Undergraduates
34% Women
16% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 775 undergraduate students at SEBTS, with 289 being full-time and 486 being part-time.

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There are also 2,273 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 289 full-time undergraduates at SEBTS, 66% are male and 34% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 9
Black or African American 21
Hispanic or Latino 12
White 229
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 17

Geographic Diversity

North Carolina students aren't the only ones who study at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. At this time, 5 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 17 countries are represented at SEBTS. The most popular countries sending students to the school are South Korea, Dominican Republic, and Vietnam.

Online Learning at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

1,070 Took All Classes Online
1,802 Took At Least One Class Online
12.1% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2020-2021, 1,802 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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This school is the 48th most popular in North Carolina for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of SEBTS

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary was 12.1%. This is the #1,318 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at SEBTS 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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