Your Haven is Waiting
Explore a Christ-centered undergraduate experience where you can prepare for your career, grow in your faith, build meaningful relationships, and discover your calling.
Why Consider Belhaven University?
Belhaven University is a private Christian university in Jackson, Mississippi, offering more than 80 areas of undergraduate study. Traditional undergraduate students learn in a close-knit campus community with a 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio, personal faculty mentorship, career preparation, opportunities for spiritual growth, and personalized financial aid.
Students can apply online, request information, explore academic programs, or schedule a campus visit to learn whether Belhaven is the right fit.
Discover the Belhaven Undergraduate Experience
Come Learn. Come Grow. Come Win.
A Belhaven education is about more than earning a degree—it’s about growing in faith, character, and purpose. Join a community committed to helping you become who God has called you to be.
Choose Your Application Path
Select your student type to find application requirements, important steps, and helpful information for beginning your journey to Belhaven.
Undergraduate Admission Questions
Complete Belhaven’s online undergraduate application and submit the materials required for your student type. Requirements may differ for first-year, transfer, homeschool, dual-enrollment, and international applicants.
Yes, however, to be eligible, your high school cumulative GPA must be at least 2.75. Note, there are some programs such as nursing and education that require test scores.
Prospective students can schedule a personal campus visit, attend a Discover Day, or Arts Discover Day.
Belhaven’s published tuition is only the starting point. Scholarships and grants can reduce an eligible student’s net price, while a personalized financial aid offer helps families understand the resources available to them.
Yes. Belhaven University offers academic, arts, visit-related, and other scholarship opportunities for eligible undergraduate students. Award amounts, eligibility requirements, application steps, deadlines, and renewal requirements vary by scholarship.
Belhaven students may qualify for scholarships, grants, work-study opportunities, and loans. Scholarships and grants can reduce an eligible student’s net price, while work-study and loans may help families manage the remaining cost. Because every student’s circumstances are different, students should apply to Belhaven and complete the financial aid process to receive personalized information.
Belhaven offers more than 80 areas of study across fields such as business, arts, education, nursing, humanities, ministry and human services, and STEM.
Visit & Discover: Tour Our Beautiful Haven
Join us for a day to explore our beautiful campus, meet your admissions advisor, talk with professors and coaches, and ask us any question you have. In fact, we’re so confident you’ll love what you find at Belhaven, we’ll add $1,000 to your first-year scholarship package when you come for a personal visit or one of our Discover Days.
3,671 Total Students
1,214 Traditional Students
12:1 Student to Faculty Ratio
100%
100% of full-time undergrad students attending Belhaven receive some form of financial assistance
More Than a Degree. An Education of Lasting Value.
At Belhaven, you’ll grow in your faith, learn from caring faculty, prepare for your career and calling, and discover opportunities that make a Christ-centered education more affordable than you may expect.
More Opportunity for Your College Investment
The Belhaven Advantage: Belhaven offers two distinctive opportunities that can help qualifying traditional undergraduate students take their education further. Eligible students may receive fifth-year tuition to complete two majors or degrees, as well as a full-tuition scholarship for an eligible online master’s degree after graduation.
Grow in Faith, Purpose, and Leadership
At Belhaven, students are encouraged to consider how their strengths, faith, and education can prepare them for a life of purpose and service. First-year students begin with a course designed to support their transition to college, strengthen their study skills, and help them explore their gifts and interests.
As seniors, students complete Kingdom Life: Family and Workplace, a capstone course that helps them consider how a Christian worldview can shape their relationships, work, leadership, and calling.
Put Your Faith into Practice
- Mentoring, internships, service, and volunteer opportunities
- Chapel experiences featuring the Belhaven University President
- Domestic and international mission and service opportunities
- Student-led ministries and faith-based organizations
- Opportunities to develop leadership skills while serving others
Integrating Our Christian Worldview into Every Classroom. A message from Belhaven University's President.
57% In-State Students
11% Homeschool Students
22 Average ACT Score
80+ Programs
Find the right program for you
Hear from Belhaven Students
Watch the videos below to hear students share how Belhaven is helping them grow, prepare for the future, and find a place to belong.
Contact Us
Office of Admission
Phone: 601-968-5940Mailing Address:
1500 Peachtree Street, Box 153
Jackson, MS 39202
For campus visit:
Jimmy Hood Welcome Center
855 Riverside Drive
Jackson, MS 39202
Fax: 601-300-2932
Verse of the Year
"Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit," says the Lord Almighty.
Zechariah 4:6