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Bethune-Cookman University

Work 640 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Work(800) 448-0228
Web site: http://www.bethune.cookman.edu
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Tier 1
College Category:
Baccalaureate Colleges (South)

Overview : Bethune-Cookman University

General Information  
Institutional Control: Private
Year founded: 1904
Religious affiliation: Methodist
Academic calendar: semester
Total number of undergraduates: 3,394
Setting urban
Endowment: $44,570,000
Fall Admissions  
Application deadline: rolling
Application fee: $25
Fall 2007 Acceptance rate: 24.8 %
Selectivity: less selective
Expenses  
Costs: 2008-2009 Tuition and Fees: $12,876
Mission  
School mission Founded by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in 1904, Bethune-Cookman College is an historically Black, United Methodist Church-related college offering baccalaureate degrees. In the fall of 2006, Bethune-Cookman launched its first graduate program. The institution now offers a Master of Science Degree in Transformative Leadership. As of February 14, 2007, the name of the institution was officially changed to Bethune-Cookman University. Its mission is to serve in the Christian tradition the educational, social, and cultural needs of its students--traditional and non-traditional--and to develop in them the desire and capacity for continuous intellectual and professional growth, leadership, and service to others. Institutional priorities in the mission of the University are teaching, research, community service and commitment to moral and personal values.

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