by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Southern Adventist University was awarded 395 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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Southern Adventist landed the #273 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Southern Adventist held the #523 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 45 colleges in Tennessee, Southern Adventist is ranked at #5.
When it comes to admittance, Southern Adventist University is somewhat selective. Its acceptance rate is 74%, which means you'll face some strong competition during the admissions process. Do what you can to make your application stand out.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Southern Adventist University is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Southern Adventist University is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 82% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Southern Adventist University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 27% for first-time, full-time students at Southern Adventist, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,384 undergraduates at Southern Adventist with 2,103 being full-time and 281 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,262 | $20,683 | $23,091 | $26,824 | $28,363 |
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 Southern Adventist, 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 Southern Adventist, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $7,730 a year. That adds up to $30,920 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Southern Adventist is 4.5%. 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.
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Contact details for Southern Adventist are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4881 Taylor Cir, Collegedale, TN 37315-0370 |
| Phone: | 423-236-2000 |
| Website: | www.southern.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/SouthernAdventistUniversity |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/SouthernNews |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 89 | $56,507 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 89 | $41,420 |
| General Biology | 54 | NA |
| Health & Physical Education | 23 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 20 | $32,843 |
| Social Work | 19 | NA |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 15 | NA |
| Marketing | 14 | NA |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 14 | NA |
| Chemistry | 13 | NA |
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 2020-2021, 1,168 students took at least one online class at Southern Adventist University. This is a decrease from the 1,179 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,168 | 137 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,179 | 123 |
| 2018-2019 | 918 | 119 |
| 2017-2018 | 870 | 116 |
| 2016-2017 | 921 | 145 |
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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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