Benedict College
Investment & Impact
| Men's tennis expenses | $143,762 |
|---|---|
| Women's tennis expenses | $145,479 |
How much does Benedict College spend on women's tennis?
Benedict College reported $145,479 in total women's tennis expenses in the 2025 EADA survey, ranking #557 of 1141 women's tennis programs nationally. Figures are school-reported to the U.S. Department of Education.
Does Benedict College offer athletic scholarships for women's athletes?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Benedict College's athletically related student aid averaged about $8,010 per women's athlete across all women's sports. Aid is reported at the school level, not per team.
How much does Benedict College spend on recruiting women's athletes?
Benedict College reported $2,562 in total recruiting expenses for women's teams in the 2025 EADA survey (school-wide, all women's sports).
How does Benedict College's spending compare between men's and women's tennis?
In the 2025 EADA survey, Benedict College reported $143,762 in total men's tennis expenses and $145,479 in total women's tennis expenses.
Can college athletes in South Carolina earn NIL money?
South Carolina's 2021 college NIL law (S.C. Code Section 59-158-10 et seq.) lets college athletes earn NIL compensation, with later amendments easing school involvement. (Verified 2026-06-11; source: https://schsl.org/archives/16430.)
Public DOE EADA filing, 2025 survey · figures are school-reported
How big is the Benedict College women's tennis roster?
Benedict College listed 7 players on its women's tennis roster in its 2025 filing, 22% below the NCAA Division II median of 9.
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.
A smaller squad usually means each recruit is closer to the lineup, and one injury or transfer changes the team's season more.
| Survey year | Players | Coaches |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | 1 |
| 2021 | 7 | 1 |
| 2022 | 9 | 1 |
| 2023 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 |
How many coaches does Benedict College women's tennis have?
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%.
More players per coach generally means practice time is shared more widely and an assistant or volunteer coach carries more of the day-to-day work.
What does Benedict College spend on women's tennis?
Benedict College reported $145,479 in total women's tennis expenses for 2025, 52% above the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference median of $95,444.
Day-to-day operating spending on the women's team came to about $3,472 per player in 2025, well above the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference median of $2,047, by 70%.
Recruiting spending, which EADA reports for all women's sports at the school together rather than for tennis alone, was about $26 per female athlete in 2025, well below the NCAA Division II median of $120, by 78%.
Total women's tennis expenses rose 16% between 2020 and 2025, from $125,854 to $145,479.
Programs at this level may award athletic scholarships, usually as partial awards spread across the roster in tennis.
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; a recruit should ask the coach how practice and travel fit around a specific major’s lab or clinical hours.
- 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%.
What other teams does Benedict College field?
Benedict College also fields one other team with a public profile here.
Program Info
| Division | NCAA Division II |
|---|---|
| Conference | Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference |
| Sport | Women's Tennis |
| Location | Columbia, SC |
| Enrollment | 1,536 |
| Type | private-nonprofit |
| Highest degree | Graduate |
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Benedict College have a women's tennis team?
- Yes. Benedict College fields a NCAA Division II women's tennis team in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and reported 7 players in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing.
- What division is Benedict College women's tennis?
- Benedict College competes in NCAA Division II in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Programs at this level may award athletic scholarships, usually as partial awards spread across the roster in tennis.
- How does the Benedict College women's tennis roster compare with other NCAA Division II programs?
- With 7 players in 2025, Benedict College is 22% below the NCAA Division II median of 9, based on 196 NCAA Division II programs that reported women's tennis that year.
- How many coaches does the Benedict College women's tennis team have?
- 1 on the 2025 filing (1 head, 0 assistant), about 7 players per coach, 40% above the NCAA Division II median of 5.
- How much does it cost to attend Benedict College?
- 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. Athletic aid, where the division allows it, comes on top of that and varies by recruit.
- Where is Benedict College?
- Benedict College is in Columbia, SC, in the Southeast region, in what the Department of Education classes as a city.
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