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Berea College

Berea, Kentucky

https://www.berea.edu

#191 National Colleges

30.26% Admission Rate
Moderately Selective

1,652 Undergraduates Enrolled

  • Private nonprofit
  • Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus
  • Four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in
  • Four-year, small, highly residential


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Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky. Founded in 1855, Berea College was the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. Berea College charges no tuition; every admitted student is provided the equivalent of a four-year scholarship. There are still other fees, such as room and board, textbooks, and personal expenses. Most students receive grants or scholarships and do not have to take out many loans, if any at all.

Berea offers bachelor's degrees in 32 majors. It has a full-participation work-study program in which students are required to work at least 10 hours per week in campus and service jobs in any of over 130 departments. Students take home a monthly paycheck, with the rest of the money going towards their education. Students do not get to choose where they work their first year but can choose during subsequent years.

Berea's primary service region is Southern Appalachia, but students come from 46 states in the United States and 58 other countries, with approximately one in three students an ethnic minority or from outside the U.S.Mountain Day is a tradition unique to Berea College. On this day, students are given a day free from work and classes. They are encouraged to hike the Pinnacles and enjoy the mountain ranges. Students also do not get the traditional September Labor Day off. Instead, they get a Labor Day in the spring, which is used to find a new labor position for the upcoming year.


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Location

City
Berea, Kentucky

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Locale
Town: Distant (in urban cluster more than 10 miles and up to 35 miles from an urbanized area)

Region
Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Academics

Predominant Degree Awarded
Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting

Highest Degree Awarded
Bachelor's degree

Most Popular Fields

Field % Students
Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services 9.2%
Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services 8.5%
Social Sciences 6.9%
Communication, Journalism, And Related Programs 6.9%
Visual And Performing Arts 6.6%
Education 6.3%
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies 6.3%
Physical Sciences 5.7%
Family And Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences 5.4%
Psychology 5.1%
Engineering Technologies And Engineering-Related Fields 4.7%
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 4.4%
Biological And Biomedical Sciences 4.4%
Agriculture, Agriculture Operations, And Related Sciences 3.8%
History 3.5%
English Language And Literature/Letters 2.8%
Health Professions And Related Programs 2.5%
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, And Fitness Studies 2.5%
Mathematics And Statistics 1.9%
Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics 1.6%
Philosophy And Religious Studies 1.0%

Cost

Tuition
$44,700.00

Percentage Students Receiving Aid
20.14%

Average Net Cost After Aid
$5,184.00

Admissions

SAT Scores

1216 Composite Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 638 589 540
Verbal 660 605 550

ACT Scores

25 Cumulative Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 26 24 21
English 29 26 22