Benedict College
Columbia, SC · private, nonprofit · 1,536 undergraduates
Benedict College tennis: how many players, how much aid, what it spends per player
In its 2025 filing to the Department of Education, Benedict College listed 6 players on the men's tennis roster, 40% below the NCAA Division II median of 10, and 7 on the women's, 22% below the NCAA Division II median of 9. Benedict College does report athletically related aid: in 2025 it came to about $7,171 per male athlete and $8,010 per female athlete across all sports; tennis's share is not reported separately, so what a tennis award covers is a question for the coach. Day-to-day operating spending in 2025 ran $4,220 per men's player, 74% above the NCAA Division II median of $2,420, and $3,472 per women's player, 32% above the NCAA Division II median of $2,622.
Benedict College, in Columbia, SC, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NCAA Division II as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Benedict College's men's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 6 players in 2025, down from 8 in 2020. Benedict College lists a single head coach and no assistant on the 2025 filing for men's tennis, which works out to about 6 players per coach, well below the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference median of 11, by 45%.
Benedict College's women's tennis roster has moved around, as low as 5 in 2024 and as high as 9 in 2022, and ended 2025 at 7. Benedict College lists a single head coach and no assistant on the 2025 filing for women's tennis, which works out to about 7 players per coach, well above the NCAA Division II median of 5, by 40%.
Each team page below covers roster size and its trend, coaching staff, spending per player against conference and division medians, and what the school and town are like for a recruit.
How does Benedict College fund its athletes?
Benedict College reported 314 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 215 men and 99 women, a roster count that leans heavily male.
Athletically related student aid came to $2,334,874 across all sports ($1,541,858 for men's sports, $793,016 for women's); tennis's share of that is not reported separately, so a recruit should ask the coach directly what a tennis award typically covers.
Recruiting spending was $20,204 for men's sports and $2,562 for women's, tilted toward the men's side, or about $94 and $26 per athlete.
What is Benedict College like academically?
Benedict College is a small private, nonprofit university offering graduate degrees that admits 96% of applicants, open to most applicants by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
The full cost of attendance is around $32,000 a year, above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $18,250 after grants and scholarships, in the above the median nationally, so aid covers roughly 43% of the sticker price on average.
62% of undergraduates receive federal Pell grants, a sign the school enrolls many families with limited income.
24% of students finish their degree within six years, in the bottom quarter nationally and 57% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $31,902, in the bottom quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Benedict College?
No single field dominates: the largest, Business, Management & Marketing, is 18% of degrees, with Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Homeland Security & Law Enforcement and others close behind.
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data.
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (32 degrees)
- Biology, General (30 degrees)
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (29 degrees)
- Psychology, General (22 degrees)
- Communication and Media Studies (18 degrees)
- Public Health (18 degrees)
- Criminal Justice and Corrections (18 degrees)
- Social Work (11 degrees)
- Accounting and Related Services (11 degrees)
- Computer Engineering (9 degrees)
What is Columbia, SC like to live in?
Benedict College sits in Columbia, a mid-sized city of about 138,000 people in Lexington County, South Carolina.
The median household in Columbia earns about $55,653, which is below the South Carolina median ($66,818) but far below the national median ($78,538).
Home values are in step with the rest of South Carolina, around $243,500 and rents are typical for the state, about $1,158 a month.
Getting around is quick: the average commute is 17 minutes against a national average near 27, and driving is common but not universal, though 16% of workers walk.
It reads as a college town: 15% of residents are 20 to 24, roughly 2.4 times the national share, and the median age of 29 is younger than the country's 39.
46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, more than the South Carolina average of 32%.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Benedict College have a tennis program?
- Yes. Benedict College fields men's tennis (NCAA Division II, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) and women's tennis (NCAA Division II, Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- How many players are on the Benedict College tennis teams?
- In its 2025 filing to the Department of Education, Benedict College listed 6 players on the men's tennis roster, 40% below the NCAA Division II median of 10, and 7 on the women's, 22% below the NCAA Division II median of 9. Roster size shapes playing time: fewer players means a recruit is closer to the lineup, more means deeper competition for spots.
- Does Benedict College give athletic aid for tennis?
- Benedict College does report athletically related aid: in 2025 it came to about $7,171 per male athlete and $8,010 per female athlete across all sports; tennis's share is not reported separately, so what a tennis award covers is a question for the coach. EADA reports aid by gender for the whole athletic department, never per team.
- How much does Benedict College spend per tennis player?
- Day-to-day operating spending in 2025 ran $4,220 per men's player, 74% above the NCAA Division II median of $2,420, and $3,472 per women's player, 32% above the NCAA Division II median of $2,622. Operating spending counts day-to-day costs such as travel, uniforms, equipment and game-day expenses, not coaching salaries or aid.
- Where is Benedict College?
- Benedict College is in Columbia, SC, in the Southeast region of the United States.
- How much does Benedict College cost?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $32,000 a year, and an average net price of $18,250 after grants and scholarships.