Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 66.7%, so approximately 3/10 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

• There are apparently no tenure stream faculty. This can indicate a risk to academic freedom and thus educational quality, as faculty members may be able to lose their positions because of their speech, publications, or research findings.

• This institution’s full-time undergraduate enrollment has tended to decrease over time.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Master’s Colleges & Universities: Small Programs

• Undergrad program: Professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Postbaccalaureate: Education-dominant, with Arts & Sciences

• Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $21,755 (1.1 times the equivalent cost of Harvard).

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, small, highly residential

• In state percentage: 60% of first year students come from Indiana

• In US percentage: 99% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Wesleyan

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 66.7% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 56.9%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: Unknown (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 8.3 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of less than 12 weeks, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 2500 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 3 percent or less of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Taylor University, Spring Arbor University, Anderson University, University of Indianapolis, Olivet Nazarene University, Bethel University, Grace College and Theological Seminary
• Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of Notre Dame, Villanova University, Purdue University-Main Campus, Baylor University, Santa Clara University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Trinity University, Providence College, Truman State University, Pepperdine University, Biola University, Ball State University, Rollins College, Elon University, Creighton University, Wheaton College, Drake University, Calvin University, DePauw University, Bradley University, Butler University, Drury University, John Carroll University, Xavier University, Huntington University, Earlham College, Grove City College, Otterbein University, University of Evansville, Liberty University, Marian University, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Valparaiso University, University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne
• These institutions compare themselves to Indiana Wesleyan University-Marion, but not vice versa: Cedarville University, Regent University, Columbia International University, Bethel University, Sam Houston State University, LeTourneau University, Calumet College of Saint Joseph, Trevecca Nazarene University, Siena College, Oral Roberts University, Visible Music College, Upper Iowa University, The University of Findlay, Bellevue University, Ashland University, Lawrence Technological University, William Woods University, John Brown University, Judson University, Franklin University, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Waynesburg University, Cornerstone University, Crown College, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Goshen College, Greenville University, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Trinity International University-Illinois, Waldorf University, Kansas Christian College, Kuyper College, Ferrum College, University of Mount Olive, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, University of Massachusetts Global, Wesley Biblical Seminary

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).

Library

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