Birmingham-Southern College

Admissions

At 52%, the acceptance rate makes Birmingham-Southern College a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. 3,987 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 7% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below cover the middle 50% of the enrolled students who submitted a score — not the whole class, and not a cutoff.

Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)

These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

Academics

Completion is middling: 64% finish inside six years. 63% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about two in five are gone before sophomore year. 26% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. At 9:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a private nonprofit four-year college, the relevant comparison is other four-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions.

Financial Aid

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Net price lands at $24,170 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($19,562 versus $25,419), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $14,223, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 67% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.

Net price by family income

The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24