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
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 18 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 18 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data18 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
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.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Action history · 6
- Dec 2021Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Dec 2021Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Sep 2020Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2019Accreditation Reaffirmed: Warning RemovedSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2018Warning or Equivalent-Factors Affecting Academic QualitySouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
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, 156 students received $923K in Pell grants, alongside $2.1M 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 117 borrowers who entered repayment, 1 (0.8%) defaulted within three years — below 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 Sweet Briar College
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
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 campus1
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- Race1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Sweet Briar College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Sweet Briar College 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSweet Briar College | 52% | — | 444 | $23,383 | Baccalaureate |
Patrick Henry College | 74% | 77.4% | 425 | — | Baccalaureate |
Hampden-Sydney College | 62% | 40.9% | 946 | $24,668 | Baccalaureate |
Randolph College | 46% | 93.7% | 816 | $18,436 | Baccalaureate |
Hollins University | 65% | 68.0% | 761 | $22,263 | Baccalaureate |
Southern Virginia University | 33% | 96.4% | 936 | $24,014 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 57% | 77.4% | 789 | $23,383 |
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