Campbell University

Private · Moderately Selective · NC

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School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationNC · South

SettingRural

Undergrads2,680

Student:faculty13:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate47.6%

6-yr grad rate61%

Drop-out rate23.8%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$42k

Out-of-state tuition$42k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity41.8%

Gender diversity52.9%

International2.1%

IdentityBaptist

Overview

Campbell University is a private university in Buies Creek, North Carolina, a small town built almost entirely around the college, with historic Baptist roots that still inform campus culture. It has grown well beyond a typical small liberal arts college by adding professional schools that are unusual for an institution its size, all within about an hour of Raleigh.

Academics

Campbell's defining feature is pre-professional depth: it houses a law school, a pharmacy school, and one of the newer osteopathic medical schools in the country, giving undergraduates a visible path toward health and legal careers plus pre-med and pre-law advising informed by those graduate programs next door. Undergraduate strengths include business, health sciences, and a homeland security program that draws on Campbell's ties to nearby military installations. Class sizes at the undergraduate level stay small and personal despite the university's overall size.

Campus & student life

Buies Creek is genuinely small and rural, so campus life is largely self-contained — most students live on campus, and the university's own facilities substitute for an off-campus town scene. The Baptist heritage shows up in a values-oriented, service-minded campus culture rather than strict religious requirements, and Campbell fields NCAA Division I athletics.

Getting in

Campbell reviews applicants holistically, with particular interest in students aiming at its pre-professional pipelines — pre-health, pre-law, and business — and demonstrated seriousness about one of those tracks can matter as much as raw academic numbers.

After graduation

The presence of law, pharmacy, and medical schools on the same campus gives Campbell undergraduates real advantages in advising and exposure for health and legal careers, and many students who complete Campbell's own pre-professional tracks go on to its own graduate programs.

Worth knowing

Having law, pharmacy, and osteopathic medical schools at a university this size is genuinely unusual — most colleges with a similar undergraduate profile have none of the three, and Campbell has all of them, which shapes both its pre-professional advising culture and its name recognition in health care circles.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate87.2%

Enrolled mid-50%1140

Test policynot used

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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