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

How Hard Is It To Get Into ECU?

Since ECU has an acceptance rate of 94%, it is not too hard to gain acceptance into the school. Still, you need to be sure you complete your application in full and send in any other requested documents.

Approximately 36% of accepted students are men and 64% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 92%, and the acceptance rate for women is 95%.

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.

The student loan default rate at ECU is 1.7%. 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.

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 2020-2021, 20,740 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 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of ECU

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at East Carolina University was 14.2%. This is the #1,089 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at ECU 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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.