West Virginia
Wesleyan College
Private College in Buckhannon, WV. Six-year graduation rate 57%. Median 10-year earnings $51,593.
Students who entered West Virginia Wesleyan College land at a median of $51,593 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. The six-year graduation rate is 57%, meaning about two in five students who start do not finish. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Mobility score 0.6 — limited economic uplift documented
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 93%, West Virginia Wesleyan College takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool is small at 1,397, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. About 23% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range. Read the score bands below narrowly: only 41% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, and test-optional applicants are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 472–600 | 102 (41%) |
| SAT Math | 420–560 | |
| ACT Composite | 16–23 | 48 (16%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 57% finish inside six years. Retention of 67% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 13:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. At 938 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 909 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,218 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $12,611 while those at $110k+ pay $24,004. Grant aid is widespread — 99% of students receive it, averaging $27,624. Borrowing is widespread: 67% take federal loans.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 306 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $12,611 |
| $30–48k | $14,807 |
| $48–75k | $14,848 |
| $75–110k | $19,834 |
| $110k+ | $24,004 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 613 of these 909 students, totalling $4,053,735 — an average of $6,613 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Upshur County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)