North Park University Academic Profile

In college, it matters who your peers and professors are, who will challenge you to learn all you can and give you the encouragement and inspiration to make it happen. Here's a snapshot of the University's academic population.

Student Body Profile

• The middle 50 percent of incoming North Park students score 19–25 on the ACT
• The middle 50 percent score 920–1150 on the SAT
• 64 percent have a high-school GPA of 3.0 or above
• 77 percent are in the top 50% of their high-school class

Enrollment in 2011

• Traditional undergraduates: 1,929
• Nontraditional undergraduates: 306
• Graduate programs: 728
• Seminary: 260
• International exchange: 23
• Seminary consortium cross registered: 3
• Total: 3,223

Faculty Profile

• Full-time teaching faculty: 122
• Faculty with earned doctorates or terminal degrees in their field: 88 percent
• Faculty who speak a language in addition to English: 48 percent
• Student-to-faculty ratio: 14 to 1

Accreditation

The following accrediting bodies have carefully evaluated North Park and accredited our degree programs and the University as a whole.

• The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities
• Association of Theological Schools
• Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (for the School of Nursing)
• International Assembly of Collegiate Business Education (for the School of Business and Nonprofit Management)
• National Association of Schools of Music (for the School of Music)
• Illinois State Board of Education (for teacher-certification programs)
• Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (accreditation of the athletic-training education program)
• American College of Sports Medicine (endorsement of the exercise-science program)