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Berry College was awarded 9 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is education.
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College Factual ranked Berry as #1,181 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
Berry also holds the #32 spot on the Best Colleges in Georgia ranking.
The acceptance rate at Berry College is a competitive 66%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
About 21% of students accepted to Berry submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 570 and 660. Math scores were between 540 and 630.
At Berry, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 12 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Berry College is 79%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Berry College has a freshmen retention rate of 83%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at Berry for first-time, full-time students is 63%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,006 undergraduates at Berry with 1,982 being full-time and 24 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,203 | $19,634 | $18,032 | $22,845 | $28,763 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Berry, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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 Berry, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $7,353 a year. That adds up to $29,412 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Berry are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2277 Martha Berry Hwy Nw, Mount Berry, GA 30149 |
| Phone: | 706-232-5374 |
| Website: | https://www.berry.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 52 | $46,603 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 39 | NA |
| Zoology | 35 | $33,258 |
| Health & Physical Education | 35 | $25,091 |
| Communication & Journalism (Other) | 33 | $36,931 |
| Nursing | 32 | $75,343 |
| General Psychology | 30 | $25,831 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 29 | $43,376 |
| General Biology | 20 | NA |
| Marketing | 18 | $45,374 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 112 students took at least one online class at Berry College. This is a decrease from the 147 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 112 | 73 |
| 2021-2022 | 147 | 78 |
| 2020-2021 | 859 | 61 |
| 2018-2019 | 29 | 0 |
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Footnotes
*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.
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