BS Respiratory Therapy at West Virginia University

Entry requirements

Programme-level admission/progression (WVU catalogue): Direct Admit Entering WVU freshman who have a minimum overall high school GPA of 2.75 and meet all other general admission requirements to the University may be provisionally admitted into the respiratory therapy major, space permitting. Applicants who do not meet the provisional admission requirements will be placed in the Healthcare Pathway in the Center for Learning, Advising and Student Success (CLASS), where they may pursue prerequisite coursework. Students will be provisionally admitted on a rolling basis, with a priority deadline of December 1. Due to current accreditation requirements, sixteen students per cohort, per year can enroll in the respiratory therapy program, thus academic deposits will also be accepted on a rolling basis until the class is filled. The program anticipates a competitive process for the limited number of seats in this new program, therefore interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply and if admitted, deposit as early as possible. For the first sixteen provisionally admitted students who submit their academic deposit, their admission status will be updated to reflect that they are fully admitted. Students who were provisionally admitted but are not one of the first sixteen to deposit will be placed within the (CLASS) pathway and future admission is not guaranteed. However, CLASS students may apply for admission consideration (if seats would become available) using the RT indirect pathway process reflected below. Should the program...