Wilkes University Business Programs

Located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes University is a private not-for-profit institution. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

Where Is Wilkes University?

Contact details for Wilkes are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766
Phone:	570-408-5000
Website:	www.wilkes.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/WilkesUniversity
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/WilkesU

How Do I Get Into Wilkes?

You can apply to Wilkes online at: https://www.wilkes.edu/admissions/apply-undergraduate.aspx

Admission Requirements for Wilkes

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	recommended
Recommendations	neither required nor recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	neither required nor recommended

How Hard Is It To Get Into Wilkes?

Wilkes has the high acceptance rate of 92%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 50% of accepted students are men and 50% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 91%, and the acceptance rate for women is 93%.

Average Test Scores

About 89% of students accepted to Wilkes submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 620. Math scores were between 520 and 610.

Wilkes received ACT scores from 11% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 19 and 25. Math scores were between 19 and 26. Composite scores were between 20 and 26.

Can I Afford Wilkes University?

The overall average net price of Wilkes is $39,215. 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

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Wilkes, approximately 81% of students took out student loans averaging $12,151 a year. That adds up to $48,604 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Wilkes is 3.5%. 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.

Wilkes University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,243 undergraduate students at Wilkes, with 1,996 being full-time and 247 being part-time.

There are also 2,538 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,996 full-time undergraduates at Wilkes, 50% are male and 50% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	49
Black or African American	104
Hispanic or Latino	161
White	1,465
International Students	114
Other Races/Ethnicities	103

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Wilkes University. At this time, 17 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 23 countries are represented at Wilkes. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and India.

Online Learning at Wilkes University

In 2019-2020, 4,283 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 25th most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of Wilkes

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Wilkes University was 1.5%. This is the #1,473 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Wilkes regardless of major.

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%.

Wilkes University Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	46	42	88
Finance	25	0	25
Accounting	17	0	17
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	16	0	16
General Hospitality Administration/Management	3	0	3
Entrepreneurship	1	0	1
TOTAL	108	42	150

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 Jrmski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.