by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Winston - Salem State University was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy.
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WSSU landed the #1,633 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when WSSU held the #1,667 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
WSSU also holds the #54 spot on the Best Colleges in North Carolina ranking.
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Winston - Salem State University has an acceptance rate of 73%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 8% of students accepted to WSSU submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 420 and 530. Math scores were between 410 and 520.
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The student to faculty ratio at Winston - Salem State University is about average at 15 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Winston - Salem State University is 65%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 77% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Winston - Salem State 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 27% for first-time, full-time students at WSSU, which is lower than the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,689 undergraduates at WSSU with 4,033 being full-time and 656 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $12,353 | $13,854 | $17,019 | $20,177 | $21,307 |
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 WSSU, 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 WSSU, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $6,507 a year. That adds up to $26,028 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for WSSU are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 601 S. Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27110-0001 |
| Phone: | 336-750-2000 |
| Website: | www.wssu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 250 | $72,639 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 144 | $31,421 |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 117 | $30,863 |
| Health & Physical Education | 79 | $26,467 |
| Business Administration & Management | 72 | $32,541 |
| Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 53 | $60,442 |
| General Psychology | 53 | $25,637 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 44 | $31,564 |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 37 | $35,414 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 34 | $43,077 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 4,033 students took at least one online class at Winston - Salem State University. This is a decrease from the 5,032 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 4,033 | 857 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,032 | 1,966 |
| 2020-2021 | 4,931 | 1,482 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,601 | 736 |
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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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