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Find target, reach, and safety schools based on your GPA, with acceptance rates and test score data for thousands of colleges.

Where your GPA fits: Safety, Target or Reach, from each college's reported average GPA and acceptance rate. A guide, not a prediction.

Colleges in West VirginiaEvery college we list in West Virginia, with its average GPA and test scores where it reports them.

Showing 30 of 32 colleges
Marshall UniversityHuntington, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,96% admitted
Average GPA3.60As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%480–590 R&W430–560 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–24
Concord UniversityAthens, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,93% admitted
Average GPA3.37As reported by the college for 2024⁠–⁠25
SAT, middle 50%440–560 R&W390–530 Math
ACT, middle 50%17–24
West Virginia UniversityMorgantown, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,89% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%520–620 R&W490–600 Math
ACT, middle 50%20–26
West Virginia State UniversityInstitute, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,96% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%410–550 R&W350–490 Math
ACT, middle 50%15–20
Fairmont State UniversityFairmont, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,99% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%450–560 R&W360–510 Math
ACT, middle 50%17–23
Shepherd UniversityShepherdstown, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,97% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%468–600 R&W410–540 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–24
University of CharlestonCharleston, West Virginia Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,62% admitted
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West Liberty UniversityWest Liberty, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,97% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%470–580 R&W420–543 Math
ACT, middle 50%18–24
West Virginia University Institute of TechnologyBeckley, West Virginia Public, 4-yearModerate to get into,37% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%460–570 R&W420–550 Math
ACT, middle 50%19–23
Bluefield State UniversityBluefield, West Virginia Public, 4-yearEasy to get into,97% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%440–540 R&W430–540 Math
ACT, middle 50%17–22
West Virginia Wesleyan CollegeBuckhannon, West Virginia Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,93% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%472–600 R&W420–560 Math
ACT, middle 50%16–23
Davis & Elkins CollegeElkins, West Virginia Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,94% admitted
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Wheeling UniversityWheeling, West Virginia Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,63% admitted
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Bethany CollegeBethany, West Virginia Private nonprofit, 4-yearFairly easy to get into,59% admitted
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Appalachian Bible CollegeMount Hope, West Virginia Private nonprofit, 4-yearEasy to get into,78% admitted
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SAT, middle 50%470–583 R&W408–523 Math
ACT, middle 50%21–23
American Public University SystemCharles Town, West Virginia Private for-profit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Blue Ridge Community and Technical CollegeMartinsburg, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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West Virginia University at ParkersburgParkersburg, West Virginia Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Pierpont Community and Technical CollegeFairmont, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Glenville State UniversityGlenville, West Virginia Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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New River Community and Technical CollegeBeaver, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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West Virginia Northern Community CollegeWheeling, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Mountwest Community and Technical CollegeHuntington, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Southern West Virginia Community and Technical CollegeLogan, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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Potomac State College of West Virginia UniversityKeyser, West Virginia Public, 4-yearOpen admission
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Salem UniversitySalem, West Virginia Private for-profit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Valley College MartinsburgMartinsburg, West Virginia Private for-profit, 4-yearOpen admission
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West Virginia Junior College MorgantownMorgantown, West Virginia Private for-profit, 4-yearOpen admission
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Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical CollegeMoorefield, West Virginia Public, 2-yearOpen admission
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West Virginia Junior College CharlestonCross Lanes, West Virginia Private for-profit, 2-yearOpen admission
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How to read the figures

Example: how a college appears in the list
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan Public, 4-yearHard to get into,16% admitted
Average GPA3.90As reported by the college for 2025⁠–⁠26
SAT, middle 50%680–750 R&W680–780 Math
ACT, middle 50%31–34
  • How hard it is to get in: the share of first-year applicants the college admitted for fall 2024. Very hard is under 10%, Hard 10–24%, Moderate 25–49%, Fairly easy 50–74% and Easy 75% or more. Open admission colleges accept everyone, so they have no rate.
  • Average GPA: the average high school GPA of the college's first-year students, from the college's own yearly report (its Common Data Set), with the year and, when the college says, whether it's weighted. Colleges calculate GPA in different ways, so use it as a rough guide, not a cutoff.
  • Safety, Target and Reach: with your GPA in the box, where it fits at each college that reports an average GPA. Your GPA is compared with the college's average (0.15 or more above it, close to it, or below it), and the acceptance rate decides how much that counts: a college that admits under 15% of applicants is a reach for everyone. Colleges that don't report an average get no label: we never estimate one.
  • SAT: the middle 50% of scores of first-year students who sent them, for reading and writing (R&W) and math. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above it.
  • ACT: the middle 50% of overall ACT scores, read the same way.

A dash means the college didn't report that figure.

Where the data comes from

FigureSourceData year
Acceptance rate, SAT and ACT rangesThe U.S. Department of Education's yearly college surveyFall 2024
Average high school GPA (268 colleges)Each college's own yearly report (Common Data Set)2023–24 to 2025–26
Average SAT for the SAT filter and sortCollege Scorecard, U.S. Department of EducationLatest available

Each college's page also has its enrollment, net price, admission factors and policies on AP and dual credit from the same survey, and gives the year of every figure. Admission policies change every year, so check anything important with the college's admissions office.

Sources

Reviewed by the GPA Calculator team · Updated October 2026

  1. IPEDS: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data SystemU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
  2. College Scorecard dataU.S. Department of Education (June 10, 2026 release)
  3. Common Data Set InitiativeThe standard format colleges use to publish their own admissions data