The Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary

Admissions

At 56%, the acceptance rate makes The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary a school worth applying to with alternatives in hand. The applicant pool is small at 605, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. 56% of admitted students actually enroll, which is a high yield by national standards. The score bands below rest on the 30% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, 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 the problem here: 40% graduate within six years. 79% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in five are gone before sophomore year. Retention runs well ahead of completion, which means students are not leaving immediately; they are leaving somewhere between the second year and the finish line. At 16:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. 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 · grant and loan rates against 879 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Average net price after grant aid is $21,081 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Only 32% of students receive grant aid, so most families are paying near the published price.