Berea College provides all students with full tuition scholarships, and many receive support for room and board as well. Historically, the cost of admission to Berea College has varied from "a desire to learn" to "the price of one head of livestock." Admission to the College is granted only to students who need financial assistance; in general, applications are not accepted from those whose family income does not fall within the bottom 40% of US households. By policy, at least 80% of the College's incoming class is drawn from the Appalachian ...
The College began first in 1855 as a one room schoolhouse, that also served as a church on Sundays. While the school's first articles of incorporation were adopted in 1859, founder John Gregg Fee and the teachers were driven from the area by pro-slavery supporters in that same year. Fee spent the Civil War years raising funds for the school, and returned afterward to continue his work. In 1869, the first college students were admitted, and the ...
