Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 10.3-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates (GR) — Pell/SSL cohort, 2024 cohort.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 70 Title IV programs, 4 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 65 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing4 · 5.7%
- No Data65 · 92.9%
- Failing1 · 1.4%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 2
Action history · 9
- Jun 2025Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools · Theology (THEOL) - Freestanding schools, as well as programs affiliated with larger institutions, offering graduate professional education for ministry and graduate study of theology
- Feb 2024Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools · Theology (THEOL) - Freestanding schools, as well as programs affiliated with larger institutions, offering graduate professional education for ministry and graduate study of theology
- Mar 2023Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools · Theology (THEOL) - Freestanding schools, as well as programs affiliated with larger institutions, offering graduate professional education for ministry and graduate study of theology
- Dec 2022Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2021Accreditation Reaffirmed: Warning RemovedCommission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools · Theology (THEOL) - Freestanding schools, as well as programs affiliated with larger institutions, offering graduate professional education for ministry and graduate study of theology
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 653 students received $3.9M in Pell grants, alongside $6.3M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 725 borrowers who entered repayment, 67 (9.2%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Shaw
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 9
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus29
- Public property16
Includes 5 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Data quality: 12 reports were later determined unfounded across the reporting period and are excluded from the totals above.
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Shaw vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Shaw selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectShaw University | 22% | — | 964 | $16,512 | Baccalaureate |
| 45% | 94.3% | 722 | $21,649 | Baccalaureate | |
| 45% | 67.9% | 1,110 | $19,910 | Baccalaureate | |
| 25% | 33.8% | 175 | $24,313 | Baccalaureate | |
| 34% | 79.9% | 1,184 | $27,426 | Baccalaureate | |
| 48% | 69.2% | 962 | $27,061 | Baccalaureate | |
| Peer group median | 40% | 69.2% | 963 | $22,981 |
Institutions like Shaw
Explore the federal data for institutions in Shaw's comparison group.
- BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
William Peace University
Grad rate45%Admit rate94.3%Enrollment722Net price$21,649View data - BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
Mars Hill University
Grad rate45%Admit rate67.9%Enrollment1,110Net price$19,910View data - BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
Saint Augustine's University
Grad rate25%Admit rate33.8%Enrollment175Net price$24,313View data - BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte
Grad rate34%Admit rate79.9%Enrollment1,184Net price$27,426View data - BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
Montreat College
Grad rate48%Admit rate69.2%Enrollment962Net price$27,061View data
Shaw Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The primary purpose of OSPIRE is to ensure that Shaw University’s mission and goals are planned and evaluated systematically, and to document the extent to which the institution attains expected student competencies and achieves its goals.
Visit IR office page- Brian CumberbatchSenior Data Analyst
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