East Carolina University Healthcare Programs

Located in Greenville, North Carolina, East Carolina University is a public institution. The location of ECU is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

Where Is East Carolina University?

Contact details for ECU are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	East 5Th Street, Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Phone:	252-328-6131
Website:	www.ecu.edu

How Do I Get Into ECU?

You can apply to ECU online at: https://admissions.ecu.edu/apply/freshmen/

Admission Requirements for ECU

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	3
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	1
Recommendations	3
SAT or ACT Scores	3
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into ECU?

ECU has the high acceptance rate of 92%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 37% of accepted students are men and 62% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 91%, and the acceptance rate for women is 93%.

Can I Afford East Carolina University?

The overall average net price of ECU is $29,894. 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

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At ECU, approximately 53% of students took out student loans averaging $7,134 a year. That adds up to $28,536 over four years for those students.

East Carolina University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 22,463 undergraduate students at ECU, with 18,245 being full-time and 4,218 being part-time.

There are also 5,558 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 18,245 full-time undergraduates at ECU, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	476
Black or African American	3,051
Hispanic or Latino	1,615
White	11,712
International Students	80
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,311

Geographic Diversity

North Carolina students aren't the only ones who study at East Carolina University. At this time, 34 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 67 countries are represented at ECU. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, China, and Saudi Arabia.

Online Learning at East Carolina University

There are 60 bachelor’s degree and 135 master’s degree programs available online at ECU. In 2022-2023, 19,428 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the most popular in North Carolina for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2022-2023.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of ECU majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Environmental Health	21%
Nursing Practice	42%
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	17%
Public Health Education and Promotion	2%
Registered Nursing	10%
Speech Pathology & Audiology	1%
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling	6%

East Carolina University Healthcare Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Registered Nursing	374	0	95	0	469
Public Health Education and Promotion	274	7	8	0	289
Speech Pathology & Audiology	55	0	38	0	93
Medicine	0	0	0	84	84
Health Care Management	53	22	0	0	75
Nursing Practice	0	0	0	74	74
Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy	52	0	0	0	52
Dentistry	0	0	0	51	51
General Public Health	0	6	33	1	40
Physician Assistant	0	0	33	0	33
Physical Therapy/Therapist	0	0	0	32	32
Dietetics/Dietitian	31	0	0	0	31
Substance Abuse/Addiction Counseling	0	31	0	0	31
Occupational Therapy	0	0	25	0	25
Community Health Services/Liaison/Counseling	0	1	23	0	24
Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling	15	3	5	1	24
Mental Health Counseling/Counselor	0	0	21	0	21
Health Information Management	18	2	0	0	20
Environmental Health	11	0	8	0	19
Laboratory Sciences & Medical Technology	13	0	0	0	13
Medical Informatics	0	3	9	0	12
Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling	0	0	12	0	12
Medical Family Therapy/Therapist	0	4	0	5	9
Clinical Nurse Specialist	0	9	0	0	9
Nursing Science	0	0	0	8	8
Audiology/Audiologist	0	0	0	7	7
Trauma Counseling	0	7	0	0	7
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	0	6	0	0	6
Nursing Education	0	3	0	0	3
Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery	0	1	0	0	1
Nursing Administration	0	1	0	0	1
Rehabilitation Science	0	0	0	1	1
Other Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions	0	0	0	0	0
Athletic Training	0	0	0	0	0
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing	0	0	0	0	0
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	0	0	0	0	0
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing	0	0	0	0	0
Nurse Anesthetist	0	0	0	0	0
Assistive/Augmentative Technology and Rehabilitation Engineering	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	896	106	310	264	1,576

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.