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Wilkes University

Wilkes University is a private D3 university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The tuition to attend is $37,622 and is the same for both in state and out of state students The average net cost to attend Wilkes University is $26,641 and 79% of students get in. There are roughly 2,281 students that attend Wilkes University.

More information on Wilkes University can be found by going to their academics page or their admissions page.

You can contact the Men's Wrestling Head Coach Jon Laudenslager at 570-408-4035 [email protected] or by filling out the recruitment questionnaire.


Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and became an independent institution in 1947, naming itself Wilkes College, after English radical politician John Wilkes after whom Wilkes-Barre is named. The school was granted university status in January 1990. It is classified among "Doctoral/Professional Universities" (D/PU) and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.The university's mascot is a Colonel and the official colors are blue and yellow. The campus symbol is a letter "W" known as the "flying W" by students and alumni.