North Greenville University

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a rural area.

Overview

North Greenville University is located in Tigerville, South Carolina, United States. It was founded in the year 1891. The university offers degree programs as well as online courses to students. The university's six degree-granting colleges are:

• College of Business
• College of Christian Studies
• College of Education
• College of Fine Arts
• College of Humanities
• College of Science and Mathematics

There are many student clubs and organizations including the Baptist Student Union, Phi Beta Lambda National Business Society, Alpha Psi Omega, Biology Club, Spanish Club, and Adventure Club. The university's athletic teams are nicknamed the Crusaders. The men's teams participate in sports such as baseball, football, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf, and cross country. The women's teams compete in cross country, basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball, and tennis.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Southern Baptist religious affiliation.
• Many students concentrating in drama and performing arts, nutrition and exercise therapy, media, religion and philosophy, and business and management.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Unusually high availability of athletic financial aid.
• High yield: the portion of accepted students who enroll.
• High male/female ratio.
• Good faculty-to-student ratio.

School characteristics:

• The school is private, not-for-profit.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate Colleges, General.

Features of note:

• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students have meal (board) plans.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 2,160 in 2009-2010 (2,086 full-time equivalent).

About 51% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 49% of the class.

Undergrads are 94% of enrolled students and graduate students are 6%.

Students under 25 years old represent 91% of the student body. About 2% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 99% are full-time and 1% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

North Greenville University provides on-campus housing for 1,550 of its 2,086 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 20 meals weekly.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Division II Independents for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 137 male students received the aid (men were 67% of those receiving aid) and 68 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 33% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

North Greenville University offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Master.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (88 awarded)

• Accounting
• Business Administration and Management
• International Business/Trade/Commerce
• Marketing/Marketing Management

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (10 awarded)

• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (44 awarded)

• Biology Teacher Education
• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• English/Language Arts Teacher Education
• Music Teacher Education
• Social Studies Teacher Education

FINE ARTS (0 awarded)

• Fine/Studio Arts

LIBERAL ARTS (60 awarded)

• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• General Studies
• History
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies

MATHEMATICS (1 awarded)

• Mathematics

MEDIA (27 awarded)

• Broadcast Journalism
• Journalism
• Mass Communication/Media Studies
• Radio and Television

MEDICINE (0 awarded)

• Gerontology

MUSIC (3 awarded)

• Music Performance
• Music Theory and Composition
• Piano and Organ
• Voice and Opera

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (29 awarded)

• Health and Physical Education/Fitness
• Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Sport and Fitness Administration/Management

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (59 awarded)

• Bible/Biblical Studies
• Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology
• Religious/Sacred Music
• Youth Ministry

SCIENCE (9 awarded)

• Biology/Biological Sciences

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (16 awarded)

• Psychology