Wheeling University
Wheeling University is a private nonprofit university in Wheeling, WV, with about 635 students on campus. It admits 63% of applicants, the average family on aid pays $20,503 a year, and 23% of students graduate.
How hard is it to get into Wheeling University?
The sticker price, and what families really pay
Sticker price: $42,504 a year
What families on aid pay, by income
Families earning under $30,000 pay about $17,739 a year; families over $110,000 pay about $22,824.
The students
Undergraduates by race and ethnicity
Women and men
The biggest programs, and what they pay
Bachelor’s programs with the most graduates, and their graduates’ median earnings four years later (one year later where that’s all that’s reported).
Do students finish, and does it pay off?
Paying back loans
Almost none defaulted within three years of starting repayment (payments on federal loans were paused from 2020 to 2023, so recent default rates are near zero everywhere).
Earnings by family background
Living in Wheeling
5% of Wheeling’s 26,350 residents are enrolled in college. Here is what the town is like, from TownTapestry’s Wheeling pages.
Other colleges within 30 miles
Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
Sources: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (institution and field-of-study files) and IPEDS (Scorecard 06/10/2026 · IPEDS 2024 · fall 2023); town figures from the Census American Community Survey and NOAA climate normals. Graduation rates count first-time, full-time students; earnings are for students who received federal aid.