Pfeiffer University
Misenheimer, NC
Pfeiffer University is a private, United Methodist university in Misenheimer, North Carolina, a rural area on the edge of a city or town, with 655 undergraduates. Kinesiology and education are its signature fields: together they make up 22% of its bachelor's degrees, three and a half times their share across the colleges we cover. 35% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $51,562 ten years after starting.
Pfeiffer University admitted 1,560 of 1,637 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (95.3%).
- Acceptance rate
- 95.3%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $35,070
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $19,076
- Average, students with aid
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Pfeiffer University is known for
Measured by the 204 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Kinesiology
11.8%
of its bachelor's degrees: about five times the 2.6% share across the colleges we cover.
Education
9.8%
of its bachelor's degrees: two and a half times the 3.9% share across the colleges we cover.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations2612.7% of degrees$60,936−11% vs $68,257 nationally
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness2411.8% of degrees$46,322−15% vs $54,562 nationally
- Biology188.8% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
- Criminal Justice and Corrections188.8% of degrees$50,798−8% vs $55,378 nationally
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing167.8% of degrees$75,033−16% vs $88,910 nationally
- Public Administration and Social Service Professions (other)157.4% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Rural, near a city or town
Misenheimer, NC
Undergraduates
655
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, medium programs
Living on campus
Half or more
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
11 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
3%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Pfeiffer University
Three things Pfeiffer University published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
Pfeiffer University reports that test scores are not considered at all.
That is the school’s own answer on the form it fills in every year. A score you send is not read as part of the decision here.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The admit rate rose from 65% to 95% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023
Families paid $19,076 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
95.3%
1,560 admitted of 1,637 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Pfeiffer University?
The figures on this page describe a class that already enrolled. GoodGoblin reads them against your own transcript, scores, activities and budget, then builds the balanced list, the essay plan and the deadline calendar around what it finds.
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What Pfeiffer University costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $35,070, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $45,542. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $19,076 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$35,070
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$45,542
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$19,076
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $45,542 full cost.
- Under $30k$16,167Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$14,758Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$16,941Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$20,005Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$24,513Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
35%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
72%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$51,562
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$26,163
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate rose from 65% to 95%.
What Pfeiffer University says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rankconsidered
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Essay
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scores
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendations
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
More colleges on the record
Each of these pages carries the same measured figures and sources.
Other colleges in North Carolina
Closest acceptance rates in the same state.
- Barton College95.9%
- Campbell University94.3%
- Appalachian State University93.9%
- University of North Carolina Asheville93.9%
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Closest acceptance rates anywhere in the country.
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