Shaw University is a small historically black private college located in Raleigh, NC with a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1. It has a total of 1,387 full-time undergraduate students and is not very competitive, accepting just about 62.5% of applicants. Shaw University offers 25 different majors and is best known for its Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Social Work, and Communication and Media Studies programs (respectively ranked 18th, 21st, and 24th in North Carolina). With an annual tuition of $11,808 per year, Shaw University is pretty cheap. 19.32% of students graduate beginning the next stage of their lives, joining the labor market. After college, alumni go on to take home around $29,200 per year, which is 30% below the national median.