Ohio Valley University Overview

Located in Vienna, West Virginia, Ohio Valley University is a private not-for-profit institution. Vienna is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Ohio Valley University Known For?

• Ohio Valley has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 9 to 1.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the master's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Ohio Valley.
• For the 2017-2018 academic year, 22% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Ohio Valley University?

Contact details for Ohio Valley are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1 Campus View Drive, Vienna, WV 26105-8000
Phone:	304-865-6000
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/ohiovalleyuniversity
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/Ohio_Valley

How Do I Get Into Ohio Valley?

You can apply to Ohio Valley online at: https://www.ovu.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for Ohio Valley

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	considered but not required
TOEFL	considered but not required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Ohio Valley?

Ohio Valley has the high acceptance rate of 95%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 52% of accepted students are men and 48% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 95%, and the acceptance rate for women is 95%.

Average Test Scores

About 43% of students accepted to Ohio Valley submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 440 and 550. Math scores were between 430 and 540.

Ohio Valley received ACT scores from 43% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 16 and 24. Math scores were between 16 and 23. Composite scores were between 18 and 23.

Can I Afford Ohio Valley University?

The overall average net price of Ohio Valley is $21,862. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Ohio Valley, approximately 45% of students took out student loans averaging $5,537 a year. That adds up to $22,148 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Ohio Valley is 14.1%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.

Ohio Valley University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 253 undergraduate students at Ohio Valley, with 229 being full-time and 24 being part-time.

There are also 20 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 229 full-time undergraduates at Ohio Valley, 59% are male and 41% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Ohio Valley University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	2
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	116
International Students	53
Other Races/Ethnicities	26

Geographic Diversity

West Virginia students aren't the only ones who study at Ohio Valley University. At this time, 18 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 29 countries are represented at Ohio Valley. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Colombia, Canada, and Spain.

Online Learning at Ohio Valley University

In 2019-2020, 138 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Ohio Valley has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 23rd most popular in West Virginia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of Ohio Valley

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Ohio Valley University was 29.1%. This is the #893 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Ohio Valley regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Ohio Valley ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Ohio Valley.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Curriculum & Instruction	#104

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Ohio Valley University Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	0	12	0	12
Liberal Arts General Studies	9	2	0	11
General Psychology	0	8	0	8
General Biology	0	6	0	6
Biblical Studies	0	5	0	5
Accounting	0	4	0	4
Curriculum & Instruction	0	0	4	4
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	4	0	4
Health & Physical Education	0	4	0	4
Criminal Justice & Corrections	0	3	0	3
General English Literature	0	2	0	2
Health Sciences & Services	0	2	0	2
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	0	1	0	1
Marketing	0	1	0	1
Computer Information Systems	0	1	0	1
History	0	1	0	1
Mathematics	0	0	0	0
Natural Resources Conservation	0	0	0	0
Other Science Technologies/Technicians	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	9	56	4	69

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.