Sweet Briar College Overview

Sweet Briar College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Sweet Briar, Virginia. Sweet Briar is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Sweet Briar College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Sweet Briar since the student to facuty ratio is 10 to 1.
• Students at Sweet Briar have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 1%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at Sweet Briar is the master's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 75% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Sweet Briar bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $50,618 a year. That's about 24% more than their peers at other schools.
• The average Sweet Briar student graduates in 4.1 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Sweet Briar College?

Contact details for Sweet Briar are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	134 Chapel Drive, Sweet Briar, VA 24595-9998
Phone:	434-381-6100
Website:	www.sbc.edu

How Do I Get Into Sweet Briar?

You can apply to Sweet Briar online at: sbc.edu/admissions/apply-now/

Admission Requirements for Sweet Briar

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Required
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Sweet Briar?

Sweet Briar has an acceptance rate of 80%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Average Test Scores

About 18% of students accepted to Sweet Briar submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 630. Math scores were between 490 and 630.

Sweet Briar received ACT scores from 14% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 23 and 26. Math scores were between 22 and 26. Composite scores were between 23 and 27.

Can I Afford Sweet Briar College?

The overall average net price of Sweet Briar is $28,626. 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 Sweet Briar, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $5,184 a year. That adds up to $20,736 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Sweet Briar is 0.8%. 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.

Sweet Briar College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 452 undergraduate students at Sweet Briar, with 448 being full-time and 4 being part-time.

There are also 2 graduate students at the school.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	13
Black or African American	43
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	312
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	33

Geographic Diversity

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

Over 6 countries are represented at Sweet Briar. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Pakistan, and France.

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 Elwsbc under License

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