Johnson C Smith University
Johnson C Smith University admitted 45% of applicants. Its average net price after aid was $21,397 a year. Within six years, 34% of first-time, full-time students graduated.
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Admissions
- Admission rate
- 45%
- SAT/ACT scores
- Not required
Cost
- Cost of attendance, before aid
- $36,350 a year
- Average net price after aid
- $21,397 a year
- Net price for families earning under $30,000
- $20,863 a year
- Tuition and fees
- $22,370 a year
Outcomes
- Graduation rate (within 6 years)
- 34%
- Students who return for a second year
- 71%
- Median earnings 10 years after starting
- $44,849 a year
- Median debt at graduation
- $30,750
Students
- Undergraduates
- 1,244
- Undergraduates with a Pell Grant
- 75%
- Student-faculty ratio
- 12 to 1
- Campus setting
- City
- Historically Black college or university
- Yes
Most common fields of study
Share of the degrees the college awarded, by field.
- Business, management and marketing
- 24%
- Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness and kinesiology
- 13%
- Computer and information sciences
- 10%
- Liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities
- 9%
- Biological and biomedical sciences
- 8%
Colleges with similar selectivity
Closest by admission rate and SAT scores.
- Oakwood University AL · 45% admitted
- University of Wisconsin-Madison WI · 45% admitted
- Alcorn State University MS · 45% admitted
- Bentley University MA · 45% admitted
- Loyola Marymount University CA · 45% admitted
- Grambling State University LA · 45% admitted
More colleges in North Carolina
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC · 42% admitted
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte NC · 80% admitted
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC · 15% admitted
- East Carolina University NC · 89% admitted
- Appalachian State University NC · 90% admitted
- University of North Carolina Wilmington NC · 64% admitted
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro NC · 89% admitted
- North Carolina A & T State University NC · 50% 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.