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Public College

Wood County
Technical Center-Practical Nursing

Public College in Parkersburg, WV. Median 10-year earnings $40,547.

Verdict Mixed outcomes
Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing · Campus
Median earnings · 10 yr
$40,547
Green Flags
Red Flags

Admissions

Acceptance rate
75%
Applicants
4
Yield rate
100.0%

75% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool is small at 4, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. A 100% yield rate puts this school in the upper range for admits who follow through.

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
SAT Math
ACT Composite

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

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Academics

Full-time retention
80%
Transfer-out rate
Student:faculty
10:1

The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. First-year retention of 80% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. The undergraduate body is just 27, which shapes everything from class size to how often a required course is offered.

Financial Aid

Average net price
$4,063
Full-time, first-time undergraduates paying the in-state rate who were awarded grant or scholarship aid
% receiving grants
85%
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
% receiving federal loans
degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 27 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates

Students pay an average of $4,063 annually, well below typical undergraduate net price. The gap between the $0–30k and $48–75k bands is narrow ($871 versus $3,626), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 85% of students get grant aid averaging $8,646, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay.

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.

% receiving grants
80%
Average grant
$6,546

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 5 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 $871
$30–48k $5,691
$48–75k $3,626
$75–110k
$110k+

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Local housing costs

Typical rents near campus (Wood County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.

Studio
$741/mo
1 bedroom
$745/mo
2 bedroom (whole unit)
$928/mo

HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026

Veterans & GI Bill

VA caution flag

Heightened Cash Monitoring

GI Bill students
Yellow Ribbon
No
Principles of Excellence
No

VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)

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How we evaluate Wood County Technical Center-Practical Nursing

IPEDS
US Department of Education
College Scorecard
Post-grad earnings
Census PSEO
Earnings by major
Opportunity Insights
Mobility by institution
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