Academic Life at Belmont Abbey College

All About Academics

Academics are the heart of the college experience. This overview pulls together the essentials of academic life at Belmont Abbey College: its faculty, its majors and fields of study, and its online learning options.

23 Majors With Completions

12:1 Student-Faculty Ratio

62% Full-Time Faculty

Use the sections below to explore each part of academic life in more detail, or follow a link to the full report on that topic:

Faculty Resources
Most Popular Majors
Additional Questions to Ask
Continue Your Research

Faculty and Teaching

With 12 students per faculty member, Belmont Abbey College is about average, as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. With 62% of instructors full time, Belmont Abbey College is above the national average of 47%.

For the full breakdown — tenure status, part-time and adjunct share, and how the faculty compares with the national average — see the faculty composition page.

Majors and Fields of Study

Students at Belmont Abbey College can choose from 23 majors with reported graduates spanning 15 broad fields of study.

The degree levels available at Belmont Abbey College are shown below:

Degree Level	Offered
Associate	—
Bachelor’s	✓
Master’s	✓
Doctorate	—

Ranked by number of graduates, these are the most popular majors at Belmont Abbey College.

Most Popular Majors	Graduates
Business Administration, Management and Operations	61
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness	38
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities	36
Biology, General	23
Psychology, General	23

For the complete list of majors, concentrations and graduation numbers, see the academic majors page.

Additional Questions to Ask

Before you decide, here are a few more questions to consider about academics at Belmont Abbey College:

Need flexibility? Check whether Belmont Abbey College offers the online or summer classes that fit your schedule — about 550 undergraduates study at least partly online. Explore online learning.
Interested in outcomes? Look at how well Belmont Abbey College retains and graduates its students — 70% of full-time freshmen return). See graduation and retention.
Will a degree land you a job? Ask how many graduates were employed full time a year after finishing.

Continue Your Research at Belmont Abbey College

Use the pages below to go deeper on any academic topic:

Academic Majors at Belmont Abbey College — every major and degree program offered
Faculty Composition at Belmont Abbey College — how the teaching staff is structured
Graduation and Retention at Belmont Abbey College — graduation outcomes and retention detail
Online Learning at Belmont Abbey College — online and distance enrollment options
Accreditation at Belmont Abbey College — the schools accreditation and what it means