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Located in Owensboro, Kentucky, Kentucky Wesleyan College is a private not-for-profit institution. Owensboro is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

$33,866 Avg Cost After Aid (Undergrad)
67% Acceptance Rate

Where Is Kentucky Wesleyan College?

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Contact details for Wesleyan are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 3000 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301
Phone: 270-926-3111
Website: kwc.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kywesleyan
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kywesleyan

How Do I Get Into Wesleyan?

You can apply to Wesleyan online at: https://kwc.edu/application-for-admissions/

Admission Requirements for Wesleyan

Submission Required?
High School GPA Required
High School Rank Considered but not required
High School Transcript Required
College Prep Program Neither required nor recommended
Recommendations Neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores Considered but not required
TOEFL Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Wesleyan?

67% Acceptance Rate
38% Of Accepted Are Women
11% Submit SAT Scores
Wesleyan has an acceptance rate of 67%, which means it is fairly selective. Take that into account when you are working on your application and gathering requested materials. Do what you can to stand out among other applicants.

Approximately 62% of accepted students are men and 38% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 64%, and the acceptance rate for women is 74%.

Average Test Scores

About 11% of students accepted to Wesleyan submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 455 and 560. Math scores were between 465 and 580.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 455 to 560 )
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800

SAT Math Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 465 to 580 )
200
800
Wesleyan received ACT scores from 73% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 18 and 24. Math scores were between 17 and 24. Composite scores were between 19 and 24.

ACT English Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 18 to 24 )
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36
ACT Math Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 17 to 24 )
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36
ACT Composite Scores for Kentucky Wesleyan College  ( 19 to 24 )
1
36

Can I Afford Kentucky Wesleyan College?

$33,866 Net Price
66% Take Out Loans
6.0% Loan Default Rate
The overall average net price of Wesleyan is $33,866. 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 Wesleyan, approximately 66% of students took out student loans averaging $8,305 a year. That adds up to $33,220 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Wesleyan is 6.0%. 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.

Kentucky Wesleyan College Undergraduate Student Diversity

757 Full-Time Undergraduates
47% Women
19% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 811 undergraduate students at Wesleyan, with 757 being full-time and 54 being part-time.

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Gender Diversity

Of the 757 full-time undergraduates at Wesleyan, 53% are male and 47% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Kentucky Wesleyan College students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 10
Black or African American 102
Hispanic or Latino 24
White 527
International Students 5
Other Races/Ethnicities 89

Geographic Diversity

Kentucky students aren't the only ones who study at Kentucky Wesleyan College. At this time, 14 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 9 countries are represented at Wesleyan. The most popular countries sending students to the school are United Kingdom, Congo, and Kenya.

Online Learning at Kentucky Wesleyan College

88 Took All Classes Online
257 Took At Least One Class Online
32.6% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2020-2021, 257 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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Online Growth Rankings of Wesleyan

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Kentucky Wesleyan College was 32.6%. This is the #730 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Wesleyan 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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