Warren Wilson College Overview

Warren Wilson College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Warren Wilson is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is Warren Wilson College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Warren Wilson since the student to facuty ratio is 9 to 1.
• Students at Warren Wilson have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 3%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at Warren Wilson is the master's degree.
• In <nil>, 57% of the faculty were full-time.
• It takes the average Warren Wilson student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Warren Wilson College?

Contact details for Warren Wilson are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	701 Warren Wilson Rd, Swannanoa, NC 28778-2099
Phone:	828-771-2000
Website:	www.warren-wilson.edu

How Do I Get Into Warren Wilson?

You can apply to Warren Wilson online at: https://www.warren-wilson.edu/admission/first-year-students/

Admission Requirements for Warren Wilson

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Considered but not required
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Considered but not required
Recommendations	Considered but not required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Warren Wilson?

Warren Wilson has an acceptance rate of 77%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 33% of accepted students are men and 65% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 70%, and the acceptance rate for women is 81%.

Average Test Scores

About 0% of students accepted to Warren Wilson submitted their SAT scores.Warren Wilson received ACT scores from 28% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 23 and 33. Math scores were between 20 and 27. Composite scores were between 24 and 30.

Can I Afford Warren Wilson College?

The overall average net price of Warren Wilson is $31,366. 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 Warren Wilson, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $5,638 a year. That adds up to $22,552 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Warren Wilson is 2.9%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Warren Wilson College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 723 undergraduate students at Warren Wilson, with 718 being full-time and 5 being part-time.

There are also 80 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 718 full-time undergraduates at Warren Wilson, 34% are male and 66% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Warren Wilson College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	8
Black or African American	37
Hispanic or Latino	54
White	535
International Students	25
Other Races/Ethnicities	59

Geographic Diversity

North Carolina students aren't the only ones who study at Warren Wilson College. At this time, 32 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 10 countries are represented at Warren Wilson. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Germany, and India.

Online Learning at Warren Wilson College

In 2020-2021, 138 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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
• Image Credit: By Honinbou under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.