Bluefield State University

Overview of Bluefield State University

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Bluefield State University awards associate and bachelor’s degrees to its graduates. While it is a 4-year school, it doesn’t provide any master’s or doctoral programs. Bluefield is also a Historically Black College or University (HBCU).

Depending on your high school academic pursuits, you may be able to request credits for certain activities. These include dual credit programs, where high school students are able to simultaneously earn high school and college credits. You may also be able to gain extra credits if you took Advanced Placement classes and passed the exams.

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Admissions

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Tuition Cost & Financial Aid

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Your attendance at Bluefield State University will come at a price, just at it would at any other school. The total price, without any financial aid applied, in a recent school year was $24,488. This includes in- or out-of-state tuition, room and board, books, supplies, and other various charges. However, once financial aid has been applied, the average net price for all students falls to $8,445. How much you and your family will be expected to pay depends on the amount of financial aid you are eligible for and able to garner from scholarships and grants. Financial aid is often awarded based on a family’s annual income. Families who earned less than $30,000 in a recent year paid around $6,700, while families making more than $110,000 a year paid closer to $14,000.

As a freshman student, you may be among the 96% of students eligible for financial aid. In a recent year, about 93% of freshman students receive grant or scholarship assistance averaging $6,909 and 33% receive institutional grants or scholarships totaling $1,837 on average.

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Academics

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The most popular degrees offered at Bluefield State University are health professions and related programs; liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities; engineering technology and engineering-related fields; business, management, marketing and related support services; and social sciences.

You may have the option to add an online class if you have time conflicts when you get into your semester, though it’s best to be aware of those before the semester starts so that you don’t risk falling behind. However, you will not have the option to add evening courses, since BSC doesn’t offer them.

If, at some point during your first year in school, you realize that you want to come back next fall, you’ll become a part of the retention rate that the school tracks. This is currently 56%, meaning that more than half of BSC students choose to return after their first year. This number is considered a good representation of how freshman students perceive the school and whether or not it offers a significant amount of support, majors, and other things that are desirable to students.

Another statistic that Bluefield State University maintains is the graduation rate. The 4-year graduation rate is 18% and the 6-year rate is 28%.

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Outcome & Salary

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Once you’ve graduated and begun a job, you should be able to earn a better salary than you would have expected before. Here’s a few numbers that show what graduates earn as compared to what a high school graduate earns. Bluefield State University graduate’s early career salaries are about $41,400 and their mid-career salaries are around $58,900.

Also, consider that most high school graduates earn a national average salary of $38,792 and have a 10-year projected income of $387,920 and a 20-year projected income of $775,840.

A BSC graduate’s 10-year salary earning potential is $649,450 and their 20-year earning potential is $1,238,450. That’s a big difference.

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