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Published: Dec 15, 2015
William Carey University
Courtesy of William Carey University

William Carey University
Hattiesburg, Miss.

Money Best Colleges rank: 221
Overall acceptance rate: 48.8%
Female rate: 42.6%
Male rate: 60.2%
Difference: 1.4x higher for men
Gender on campus: 64% women/36% men

William Carey is well known for its health sciences major, including programs generally dominated by women, such as nursing and psychology. But the Baptist college does not favor one gender over the other in its admissions decisions, university spokesman Joshua Wilson says. Any gap in admissions rates is “an anomaly of the applicant pool,” and the gap was smaller, about 10 percentage points, in other recent years, he said.