Southwest Virginia Community College Business Programs

Located in Richlands, Virginia, Southwest Virginia Community College is a public institution. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of Southwest Virginia.

Where Is Southwest Virginia Community College?

Contact details for Southwest Virginia are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	369 College Road Us Rt. 19, 6 Miles S. Claypool Hill, Richlands, VA 24609
Phone:	276-964-2555
Website:	sw.edu

How Do I Get Into Southwest Virginia?

You can apply to Southwest Virginia online at: https://www.apply.vccs.edu/

Southwest Virginia Community College has an open admissions policy, so you don't have to worry about getting into the school if you have a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Can I Afford Southwest Virginia Community College?

Southwest Virginia Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,295 undergraduate students at Southwest Virginia, with 1,037 being full-time and 1,258 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,037 full-time undergraduates at Southwest Virginia, 37% are male and 63% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Southwest Virginia Community College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	5
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	961
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	45

Online Learning at Southwest Virginia Community College

In 2019-2020, 2,065 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 25th most popular in 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 Southwest Virginia

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Southwest Virginia Community College was 64.4%. This is the #473 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Southwest Virginia regardless of major.

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

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Other Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services	#1
Other Accounting and Related Services	#17
Interior Design Management	#41
Business Support & Assistant Services	#86
Accounting	#175
Business Administration & Management	#406

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%.

Southwest Virginia Community College Business Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	TOTAL
Interior Design Management	20	14	34
Other Accounting and Related Services	0	4	4
Other Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services	0	0	0
Banking and Financial Support Services	0	0	0
General Hospitality Administration/Management	0	0	0
Real Estate	0	0	0
TOTAL	20	18	38

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.