Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary

Admissions

75% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. With 201 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. A 79% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 27% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.

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

59% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention is strong at 85%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The distance between those two figures is the part worth noticing — students return for a second year at a much higher rate than they graduate, so attrition here is spread across the middle years rather than concentrated in the first. The part-time picture is harder: 68% return, against 85% full-time. At 9:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university.

Financial Aid

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 466 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price after grant aid is $16,031 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Net price varies modestly by income — $18,587 at $0–30k against $4,099 at $75–110k — so the average is a fair guide for most families. Grant aid reaches 62% of students at an average of $10,212.

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