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SVU was not ranked in College Factual's Best Overall Colleges report this year. This may be because not enough data was available.
With an acceptance rate of 100%, SVU has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
About 9% of students accepted to SVU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 518 and 623. Math scores were between 500 and 603.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Southern Virginia University, this ratio is 17 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Southern Virginia University is 82%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 79% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Southern Virginia University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full time students who obtain their bachelor's degree in four years or less. This rate is 18% for first-time, full-time students at SVU, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Southern Virginia University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,140 undergraduates at SVU with 1,016 being full-time and 124 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $18,273 | $18,650 | $20,081 | $21,819 | $24,927 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of SVU, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At SVU, approximately 54% of students took out student loans averaging $7,006 a year. That adds up to $28,024 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at SVU is 6.2%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for SVU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1 University Hill Drive, Buena Vista, VA 24416 |
| Phone: | 540-261-8400 |
| Website: | www.svu.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/southernvirginia |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/SVUedu |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Business/Commerce | 45 | $37,811 |
| General Psychology | 32 | NA |
| Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology | 25 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 17 | $22,497 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 16 | $24,878 |
| General English Literature | 13 | NA |
| General Biology | 12 | NA |
| General Visual & Performing Arts | 10 | NA |
| Music | 9 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 6 | NA |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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