2021 Best Colleges in West Virginia for Students from Jamaica

When it comes to choosing a college, international students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Jamaican Students in West Virginia ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in West Virginia to determine which ones were the best for Jamaican students in West Virginia. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, number of total international students at the school, and the percentage of international students on campus - to make this determination.

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Top Colleges in West Virginia for Students from Jamaica

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

$25,824 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.4% International Students

West Virginia University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Jamaican students in West Virginia. WVU is a large public school situated in Morgantown, West Virginia. It awarded 4,540 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 5.4% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at WVU come from such countries as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and China.

Full West Virginia University Report

2

University of Charleston
Charleston, WV

$21,450 Avg Tuition & Fees

5.2% International Students

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of Charleston helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Jamaican students in West Virginia. UC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Charleston, West Virginia. It awarded 591 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 5.2% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at UC come from such countries as Canada, United Kingdom, and Brazil.

Full University of Charleston Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.