Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 13.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates (GR) — Pell/SSL cohort, 2024 cohort.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 56 Title IV programs, 6 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 50 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing6 · 10.7%
- No Data50 · 89.3%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Higher Learning Commission
Higher Learning Commission
Programmatic accreditations · 7
Action history · 4
- Mar 2021Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Collegiate Nursing Education · Nursing (CNURED) - Nursing education programs at the baccalaureate degree levels
- Mar 2021Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Collegiate Nursing Education · Nursing (CNURED) - Nursing education programs at the graduate degree levels
- Jun 2020Renewal of AccreditationHigher Learning Commission
- Aug 2014Change in Agency recognitionNational Association of Schools of Music, Commission on Accreditation · Music (MUS) - Institutions and units within institutions offering degree-granting and/or non-degree-granting programs
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 466 students received $2.7M in Pell grants, alongside $6.0M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 429 borrowers who entered repayment, 13 (3.0%) defaulted within three years — above the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at WVWC
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 11
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus10
- Non-campus1
Includes 2 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
- Race2
- Sexual orientation1
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
WVWC vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions WVWC selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectWest Virginia Wesleyan College | 57% | — | 1,055 | $18,083 | Baccalaureate |
| 39% | 94.3% | 661 | $18,273 | Baccalaureate | |
| 44% | 89.0% | 968 | $24,016 | Baccalaureate | |
| 45% | 94.3% | 722 | $21,649 | Baccalaureate | |
| 22% | 80.2% | 964 | $16,512 | Baccalaureate | |
| 45% | 74.0% | 950 | $20,925 | Baccalaureate | |
| Peer group median | 45% | 89.0% | 957 | $19,599 |
Institutions like WVWC
Explore the federal data for institutions in WVWC's comparison group.
- BaccalaureateWest Virginia
Davis & Elkins College
Grad rate39%Admit rate94.3%Enrollment661Net price$18,273View data - BaccalaureateMississippi
Blue Mountain Christian University
Grad rate44%Admit rate89.0%Enrollment968Net price$24,016View data - BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
William Peace University
Grad rate45%Admit rate94.3%Enrollment722Net price$21,649View data - BaccalaureateNorth Carolina
Shaw University
Grad rate22%Admit rate80.2%Enrollment964Net price$16,512View data - BaccalaureateGeorgia
Emmanuel University
Grad rate45%Admit rate74.0%Enrollment950Net price$20,925View data
WVWC Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The West Virginia Wesleyan College Office of Institutional Research assists the College in pursuit of its mission by coordinating and participating in the use of empirical analysis to anticipate problems and opportunities, facilitate problem solving, develop insights, and report on college performance.
Visit IR office page- Tammy CritesDirector of Institutional Research
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