Facts & Figures
Student Enrollment
- 36,024: total daytime students
- 33,181: undergraduate students
- 2,843: graduate students
- 50% male; 50% female
- 75% single; 25% married
Academics
- 186 undergraduate majors
- 110 undergraduate minors
- 64 master's programs
- 26 doctoral programs
Student Demographics
- 95.5%: United States
- 4.5%: International
- 100+ Countries represented
- 50 States represented
- 30%: Utah
- 10%: California
- 5%: Texas
- 5%: Arizona
- 5%: Idaho
Rankings
We're No. 1!
— BYU (@BYU) September 5, 2019
New report from The Wall Street Journal and @timeshighered rank BYU & the Naval Academy as the best in the nation for being worth the cost.
1️⃣ @BYU ☝️
1. U.S. Naval Academy
3. MIT
4. Virginia Military Institute
5. Princeton + 2 others
https://t.co/6vGwKTUXLT
- No. 1: College in the West for Student Engagement (Wall Street Journal)
- No. 1: Colleges Worth the Cost (Wall Street Journal)
- No. 1: Graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in business admin (NSF)
- No. 1: Graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in foreign language (NSF)
- No. 1: Best Trained Business Graduates (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- No. 2: Best College Library (The Princeton Review)
- No. 2: Undergrads with Boren Scholarships (study abroad in areas critical to U.S. interests)
- No. 2: Undergraduate Accounting Program (U.S. News & World Report)
- No. 3: Producer of foreign-language degrees (Chronicle of Higher Ed)
- No. 3: Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program (Entrepreneur/Princeton Review)
- No. 4: Best University for Technology Transfer (Milken Institute)
- No. 6: Graduates who go on to earn Doctorates (NSF)
- No. 7: Graduates with Least Amount of Debt (U.S. News & World Report)
- No. 11: Best Value School (U.S. News & World Report)
- No. 29: Best Law School (U.S. News & World Report)
- No. 31: Best Full-time MBA program (U.S. News & World Report)
Freshman Profile
- 12,379: applicants
- 59%: acceptance rate
- 28–32: middle 50% ACT score
- 3.86–4.00: middle 50% high school GPA
Undergraduate Tuition 2020-2021
- Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: $2,985 per semester
- Other students: $5,970 per semester
Student Ethnicity
- 81% Caucasian
- 7% Hispanic
- 4% Two or more races
- 3% Asian/Pacific Islander
- 1% Black
- <1% American Indian
- 4% Other
International Reach
NEW: BYU is No. 3 in the country for the most graduates with foreign language degrees, according to a new report from @chronicle. For specific language degrees, we rank:
— BYU (@BYU) January 31, 2019
No. 1 Portuguese
No. 1 Arabic
No. 1 Russian
No. 4 Korean
No. 6 French
Details: https://t.co/jvSoajg6dP
- 1,622: number of international students
- 100+: countries represented
- Canada, South Korea, and China are the top three nations represented
- Nearly 50% of all students have lived outside the United States
- 65% of students speak a second language
- 131 languages are spoken on campus
- 63 languages are taught regularly
- 15 language certifications are offered
- 229 study abroad programs are available in 80 countries
- 1,901 students studied abroad during the 2016-2017 academic year*
- 17% of students study abroad while at BYU*
- Approximately 258 ambassadors to the United States from 104 countries have spoken on campus since 1996
*Due to COVID-19, study abroad travel was prohibited during the 2020-2021 school year.
Cougar Athletics Highlights
- Women’s Cross-Country wins 2021 National Championship
- Men’s and Women’s Track and Field win a number of individual national titles at the 2021 National Championship.
- Football finishes 2020 season No. 11 in the country
- Men’s Basketball finishes regular season ranked No. 23, makes 2021 NCAA Tournament
- Women’s Basketball makes 2021 NCAA tournament, advances to the second round
- Tom Holmoe is named 2021 National Athletic Director of the Year