Cumberland University
Cumberland University admitted 67% of applicants. Its average net price after aid was $15,965 a year. Within six years, 45% of first-time, full-time students graduated.
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Admissions
- Admission rate
- 67%
- SAT/ACT scores
- Not required
Cost
- Cost of attendance, before aid
- $40,411 a year
- Average net price after aid
- $15,965 a year
- Net price for families earning under $30,000
- $16,262 a year
- Tuition and fees
- $28,540 a year
Outcomes
- Graduation rate (within 6 years)
- 45%
- Students who return for a second year
- 60%
- Median earnings 10 years after starting
- $66,885 a year
- Median debt at graduation
- $16,750
Students
- Undergraduates
- 2,104
- Undergraduates with a Pell Grant
- 35%
- Student-faculty ratio
- 19 to 1
- Campus setting
- Town
Most common fields of study
Share of the degrees the college awarded, by field.
- Business, management and marketing
- 29%
- Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities
- 24%
- Health professions
- 9%
- Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness and kinesiology
- 8%
- Biological and biomedical sciences
- 7%
Colleges with similar selectivity
Closest by admission rate and SAT scores.
- Bushnell University OR · 67% admitted
- University of South Carolina-Upstate SC · 67% admitted
- Bluffton University OH · 67% admitted
- Bryan College of Health Sciences NE · 67% admitted
- Howard Payne University TX · 67% admitted
- Indiana University-East IN · 67% admitted
More colleges in Tennessee
- The University of Tennessee-Knoxville TN · 42% admitted
- Middle Tennessee State University TN · 69% admitted
- University of Memphis TN · 72% admitted
- The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga TN · 81% admitted
- East Tennessee State University TN · 86% admitted
- Tennessee Technological University TN · 76% admitted
- Austin Peay State University TN · 96% admitted
- Vanderbilt University TN · 5.9% admitted
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Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, most recent institution-level data (October 2026 release). Admission figures are reported by the college; check its website for current requirements.