Liberty University Profile

Liberty University
1971 University Blvd
Lynchburg, VA 24515

Gen. Phone: (434) 582-2000 Fax: (434) 582-2187

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SAT is an imperfect predictor of college readiness and success and it is only one of many factors in admissions.
This report does not assume any particular merit or value in the SAT, it merely highlights institutional differences in distributions and mean averages.

Admission Summary, 2023-24 First-Time in College
Domicile	Applied	Accepted	Acceptance Rate	Enrolled	Yield Rate	Rejected	Rejection Rate
In-State	10,042	5,364	53%	1,934	36%	4,678	47%
Out-of-State	110,062	51,695	47%	8,590	17%	58,367	53%

Admission Scores

TEST

Submitted Scores

25th Percentile

Median

75th Percentile

SAT-Verbal

1174

540

600

660

SAT-Quantitative

1174

520

580

640

High School GPA

4454

3.17

3.62

3.89

ACT_Composite

670

Admission Summary, 2023-24 Graduate
Domicile	Applied	Accepted	Acceptance Rate	Enrolled	Yield Rate	Rejected	Rejection Rate
In-State	12,524	6,068	48%	3,483	57%	6,456	52%
Out-of-State	111,562	37,585	34%	20,711	55%	73,977	66%

Admission Summary, 2023-24 First Professional
Domicile	Applied	Accepted	Acceptance Rate	Enrolled	Yield Rate	Rejected	Rejection Rate
In-State	404	266	66%	207	78%	138	34%
Out-of-State	3,910	1,697	43%	1,070	63%	2,213	57%

Fall Headcount Enrollment
Fall Term	Undergraduates	Graduate Students	Total First Professionals	Total
Fall 2014	49,744	28,548	3,167	81,459
Fall 2015	49,865	27,465	3,166	80,496
Fall 2016	47,050	25,703	3,003	75,756
Fall 2017	45,754	26,133	3,157	75,044
Fall 2018	45,943	29,986	3,231	79,160
Fall 2019	47,025	35,260	3,301	85,586
Fall 2020	47,988	41,907	3,454	93,349
Fall 2021	48,135	43,750	3,263	95,148
Fall 2022	48,496	44,671	3,132	96,299
Fall 2023	51,309	47,094	3,151	101,554

See the report E22: Fall Headcount: Trends in Race Ethnicity for definitions and additiional student levels.

Annualized Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Enrollment
Year	Undergraduate	Graduate	First Professional	Total
1819	40,519	23,769	2,826	67,115
1920	43,260	29,052	3,023	75,335
2021	43,863	32,750	3,072	79,685
2122	43,253	32,654	2,878	78,785
2223	45,121	33,406	3,434	81,961

STEMH - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Health Professions

33% of all students entering in 2012-13 either graduated within an Extended Time-to-Completion or were continuing their enrollment in the final year of observation. These Student Success Index results are based on students completing at any Virginia institution.

33% of all students entering in 2012-13 either graduated within an Extended Time-to-Completion or were continuing their enrollment in the final year of observation. These Student Success Index results are based on students completing at any Virginia institution.

Graduation Rates within Six Years

Groups with fewer than 10 students in the starting cohort will not display values. "Normal time" for an associate degree is two years, and four years for bachelor's degree, 150% of Normal time is three years and six years, respectively.

Students Transferring into Liberty University
in Fall and Spring of the Designated Year to the institutions below.
*Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 will not display a graduation rate.

Transfer Enrollment
	Average # New Transfers (2016-17 to 2019-20)	Average # NewTransfers (2016-17 to 2019-20) Graduation Rate	Average # New Transfers (2019-20 to 2022-23)
Blue Ridge Community College	30	44%	29
Brightpoint Community College	64	53%	65
Central Virginia Community College	101	44%	86
Danville Community College	24	40%	22
Eastern Shore Community College	2		1
Germanna Community College	54	48%	56
J Sargeant Reynolds Community College	57	42%	46
Laurel Ridge Community College	44	66%	44
Mountain Empire Community College	10	45%	13
Mountain Gateway Community College	7		6
New River Community College	31	49%	26
Northern Virginia Community College	144	49%	143
Patrick & Henry Community College	26	45%	23
Paul D Camp Community College	9		8
Piedmont Virginia Community College	39	46%	37
Rappahannock Community College	18	52%	19
Richard Bland College	12	48%	8
Southside Virginia Community College	24	41%	29
Southwest Virginia Community College	14	40%	15
Tidewater Community College	89	37%	82
Total Public Two-Year Institutions	953	47%	904
Virginia Community College System	941	47%	896
Virginia Highlands Community College	12	48%	13
Virginia Peninsula Community College	47	42%	39
Virginia Western Community College	74	51%	70
Wytheville Community College	19	49%	19

*Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 will not display a graduation rate.

Debt of 2021-22 Graduates, Total Loans
	Total Graduates		Total Borrowers		Total Borrowing
Degree Level	#	% of All Graduates	#	% of All Borrowers	Amount	% of Total
Associates - Bachelor Credit	1,156	5%	670	5%	$16,638,392	3%
Bachelors	10,025	42%	6,283	43%	$216,241,617	37%
Graduate	11,659	49%	7,044	49%	$302,600,954	51%
First Professional	809	3%	526	4%	$54,026,497	9%
Total	23,649	100%	14,523	100%	$589,507,461	100%

Note:

Associates: Includes graduates who received Bachelor's Credit and Occupational/Techincal Credit Associate degrees.
Bachelors: Includes graduates who received Four- and Five-Year Bachelor's degrees.
Graduate: Includes graduates who received Graduate Master's and Doctorate degrees.

Debt of Recent Graduates, Recent Trend
Year	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2017-18	6,171	70%	$ 20,500	$ 29,164	$ 31,837	$ 41,667
2018-19	6,158	67%	$ 19,000	$ 27,998	$ 30,770	$ 40,584
2019-20	6,378	66%	$ 18,206	$ 27,000	$ 30,524	$ 39,834
2020-21	6,871	66%	$ 17,750	$ 26,998	$ 30,453	$ 39,666
2021-22	6,278	63%	$ 16,750	$ 26,166	$ 29,760	$ 37,500

Student borrowing at graduation, excludes PLUS loans, in five-year rollups. Includes all known institutionally-processed
borrowing occuring at all public and nonprofit institutions in Virginia. Debt accrued outside Virginia in prior postsecondary activity
is not available.

Liberty University, Four-Year Bachelor's Degree
Earnings in 2022	Median Wage	Percentage of Graduates w/ Reported Wage
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$61,082	13%
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$62,477	16%
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$59,598	15%
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$58,119	16%
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$54,459	16%
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$50,387	17%
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$44,140	17%

Only years/programs meeting disclosure rules will be displayed to protect individual confidentiality.

Wages in 2022
Years Post-Completion	10th Percentile	25th Percentile	Median	75th Percentile	90th Percentile
	80% of graduates with full-time wages fall within this range
20 Years (2001-02 graduates)	$13,983	$37,037	$61,082	$101,501	$161,594
15 Years (2006-07 graduates)	$20,041	$44,843	$62,477	$90,175	$137,979
10 Years (2011-12 graduates)	$22,969	$42,868	$59,598	$87,365	$128,964
8 Years (2013-14 graduates)	$24,206	$41,609	$58,119	$84,996	$122,243
5 Years (2016-17 graduates)	$22,454	$39,143	$54,459	$77,601	$108,691
3 Years (2018-19 graduates)	$19,899	$34,702	$50,387	$69,976	$97,876
18 Months (2020-21 graduates)	$13,969	$27,711	$44,140	$62,856	$85,507

As reminder, the median value represents the very middle value of the sample of values (wage or debt) sorted from low to high. This value is found in the middle line of the barcharts.
The remaining values in the chart are constructed similarly, to display how wages and earnings are distributed. Thus, while the median tells us the middle wage, the values for the 25th and 75th percentiles tell us that half of the graduates with wages fall between those two values. Likewise, 80% of reported wages fall between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The length of each bar section clue to the dispersion in the data - that is, how much earnings can vary within a range a group of individuals.

Virgina Resident Tuition and Fees, General, 2024-25
Student Level	Tuition & Mandatory E&G Fees	Mandatory Non-E&G	Average Room & Board (1)	Total
General Undergraduate	$23,800		$13,588	$37,388

Non-Resident Tuition and Fees, General, 2024-25
Student Level	Tuition & Mandatory E&G Fees	Mandatory Non-E&G	Average Room & Board (1)	Total
General Undergraduate	$23,800		$13,588	$37,388

Notes/Definitions

Debt: All debt figures refer to education-related debt processed through institutions. i.e. student loans. Unless specified as PLUS loans for undergraduates, the student debt refers to loans taken out by the student, not by parents or relatives. Further, reported student debt calculations are based on graduates who borrowed only. This is why we report the percentage of students/graduates wth debt.

Sample Budgets: These estimates are from the Living Wage project at MIT and are based on the estimated cost of a single adult living in Virginia. Tax and FICA withholding estimates based on a single, unmarried filer.

Limits on the Display of Data

The most important limit to understand is that these short-term measures of outcomes are not meaningful for evaluating the effectiveness of institutions or programs. These are not measures of employment rates, nor they comparable to the so-called Gainful Employment metrics produced by the US Department of Education. These measure are meant to inform readers of the outcomes of graduates in the near-term following degree completion and represent individual behavior and local economies more than any other factor.

In order to protect confidentiality and to accommodate both the many small programs in the Commonwealth and the limits of the available data, these reports will display program-level data only under the following conditions:

1. Single-year data will not be reported at the level of institution, degree, and program, only rolling five-year aggregates. For example, graduates of 2005-06 will be reported with those of 2004-05, 2003-04, 2002-03, and 2001-02.

2. The number of wage-reported graduates must be equal to or greater than 15 with full-time wage equivalent (FTWE) reported wages.

3. At least 30% of the cohort of graduates must have been matched and reported with full-time wage equivalent (FTWE) reported wages, or 20% with a minimum of 200 graduates.

4. The current definition of FTWE is at least three quarters of wages must be reported for each year.

5. Wages and earnings are not adjusted for inflation.

The wage data included in these reports represent only the following individuals:
1. Graduates successfully matched to the Unemployment Insurance Wage records collected by the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC).
2. Graduates employed in Virginia by an entity that reports to the VEC. This excludes federal employees, including those within the Department of Defense.

What employers are subject to the Unemployment Tax and must be registered and file with the Virginia Employment Commission? They must have met one of the following criteria:

One or more employees (ten employees if your operation is agricultural) for some portion of a day during any 20 different weeks in a calendar year
A $1,500 or more total gross quarterly payroll ($20,000 if your business is agricultural; $1,000 if domestic labor)
Acquired a business subject to this tax
Been subject to the Federal Unemployment Tax
A governmental operation or political subdivision
A nonprofit organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and had four or more employees for some portion of a day during any 20 different weeks in a calendar year

Source
These criteria mean that individuals working as consultants, independent contractors (including many psychologists, counselors, barbers, cosmetologists, IT workers, and P-14 wage employees of the Commonwealth) may be excluded, as are a list of others that may be found here.