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In choosing to attend Bethel College, you as a student are choosing to join a truly unique community, a community whose strength derives from our four core values:
Push the Envelope – Academic Excellence
You’ll find that your professors and classmates will engage, challenge and inspire you as they join you in an exhilarating pursuit of knowledge and personal fulfillment. Your academic achievements will coincide with personal discovery and development toward wherever your dreams take you.
Connect – Opportunities for Participation
Your education will extend beyond the classroom with activities designed to help you grow emotionally, socially and spiritually, all while enhancing your academic and leadership skills. With nearly 50 clubs and organizations, 14 varsity athletic teams, a variety of fine arts opportunities, forensics and numerous intramural sport options, you have multiple ways to get involved and create lifelong college memories. Opportunities are limited only by your imagination.
Expand Your Circle – Intentional Caring Community Bethel College’s caring community will challenge you, face-to-face, to excel academically, to think creatively and carefully and to live with integrity. At Bethel College, you’ll find the space and support you need to discover your dreams and embrace old truths.
Live It – Faith-based values
Though Mennonites represent the largest single Christian denomination at Bethel, more than half of our students come from
backgrounds other than Mennonite. Bethel College integrates faith and learning, empowering you to view questions and dilemmas from multiple perspectives
Transfer Student Advisor
Lori Livengood, VP for Marketing & Admissions
300 East 27th Street
North Newton, KS 67117
1-800-522-1887 ext. 230
llivengood@bethelks.edu
Additional Transfer Information
| Undergraduate Transfers: |
48 |
| Percent of total undergraduate student body: |
9.6% |
| Percentage of graduates completing in: |
| 4 years or less |
54 |
| 5 years or less |
8 |
| 6 years or less |
1 |
| Percentage completing in 4 years: |
86% |
- Job placement rate for teacher education graduates in 2007: 90%
- Teacher education graduates who passed licensing exam in 2007: 100%
- Social work graduates who passed licensing exam on first attempt: more than 95%
- Biology and natural science graduates who successfully pursued Ph.D. and/or M.D. degrees (since 1987): approximately 50%
- Graduate School: 1 out of every 17 graduates earns a doctoral degree, ranking Bethel first in the state and 92nd in the nation in
percentage of bachelor degree students who go on to earn a Ph.D.
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1. Academic scholarships starting with a 3.0 cumulative college GPA, $4200 and up.
2. Transfer grant of $1200 to any student with a 2.0 to 2.99 cumulative college GPA.
3. Phi Theta Kappa transfer scholarship of $1000 to any transfer student who is in the honor society. |
- Athletic Training
- Business
- Nursing
- Social Work
- Teacher ED
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Application with a $20 fee.
- Official transcripts from all previously attended colleges or universities (transcripts issued to students are not considered official).
- ACT or SAT scores (waived if student has more than 24 college credits accepted in transfer).
- Transfer recommendation (for recent or current students) or two positive character references (for students not recently in school).
(Automatic admission for students with a college cumulative GPA of 2.000 or higher)
- Nursing program requires a 3.000 minimum cumulative GPA.
- Social Work program requires a 2.500 minimum cumulative GPA.
- Teacher Education program requires a 2.500 minimum cumulative GPA.
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| Bethel College has a formal agreement with Hesston College, Hesston, Kansas. |
“The first couple of days as I walked by people, they smiled and waved and they had no idea who I was. At a bigger school like where I came from, I was just a face in the crowd. At Bethel, I’m a face that means something and that’s nice.”
— Tara Goerzen, transfer student |
| Number of required credit hours in residence a transfer student must take for a Bachelor’s degree: |
30 |
| None. |
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