| Location: | Mid-Atlantic |
| Setting: | Small Town Setting |
| Type: | Private |
| Affiliation: | Baptist |
| Size: | Small (Under 2,000 Undergrad) |
Educating promising students for a life's work. Connecting Christian principles and learning. Changing the world one graduate at a time.
Bluefield College is a small Christian liberal arts college in Bluefield, Virginia, in Tazewell County, Virginia. It offers 22 majors, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The 82 acre campus is about 150 ft from the state line between Virginia and West Virginia.
Bluefield College was founded in 1922 by the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV), after residents of Bluefield offered to donate land and start-up funds. R.A. Landsdell became the first president in 1920, and the current administration building is named Landsdell Hall in his honor. At its founding, Bluefield was a two-year junior college. Future Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash took mathematics courses at the relatively new college while in high school. In his autobiography for the Nobel Foundation, he writes
I should mention that during my last year in the Bluefield schools that my parents had arranged for me to take supplementary math. courses at Bluefield College, which was then a 2-year institution operated by Southern Baptists. I didn't get official advanced standing at Carnegie because of my extra studies but I had advanced knowledge and ability and didn't need to learn much from the first math. courses at Carnegie.
Under Charles L. Harman, president from 1946-1971, the college built Easley Library, the dormitory Rish Hall, Harman Chapel, and a geodesic dome as the gymnasium.
In 1975, Bluefield reinvented itself as a four-year college, and during the 1989-1996 presidency of Roy A. Dobyns, student enrollment doubled to more than 800 students. In 1998, under the leadership of President Daniel G. MacMillan, the college cut tuition by over 20% and refocused its student recruitment on the local area.
In 2007, the current president, David W. Olive, was inaugurated. Shortly thereafter, the college raised tuition by about 20%, and announced a new strategic plan.
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| Percent of Students International: | 0% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 33% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | No |
| Member of: | NAA, NAIA |
| Sports Include: |
Basketball (Appalachian Athletic Conference) Baseball (Appalachian Athletic Conference) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 10,860 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 570 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 2,897 | 55% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 2,100 | 71% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 3,422 | 100% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 3,985 | 66% | |
Any Aid: |
100% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 57% (Highly Selective) |
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| SAT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 78% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 430, Math: 420 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 520, Math: 510 |
| ACT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting ACT Scores: | 22% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Composite: 16, Verbal: 16, Math: 16 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Composite: 21, Verbal: 21, Math: 20 |
| Application Fee: | $ 30.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Not Required |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Required |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Not Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
