Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 51.3%, so approximately 1/2 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

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: Larger Programs

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

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

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

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $21,843 (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: 69% of first year students come from North Carolina

• In US percentage: 96% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Evangelical Lutheran Church

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 51.3% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 39.2%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 12.8 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 10.0 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Doctor’s degree: other

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 1017 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.

• Lenoir-Rhyne University lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Queens University of Charlotte, Hood College, Carson-Newman University, Mars Hill University, Bridgewater College, William Peace University, Belmont Abbey College, Ferrum College, Wingate University, Tusculum University
• Lenoir-Rhyne University compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: College of the Ozarks, Cedarville University, Anderson University, Augustana University, Taylor University, Messiah University, Lipscomb University, Lee University, College of Charleston, Florida Southern College, Oklahoma Baptist University, Moravian University, Concordia College at Moorhead, Eckerd College, Ouachita Baptist University, High Point University, Asbury University, Meredith College, Huntington University, Covenant College, Anderson University, Elizabethtown College, Presbyterian College, Seton Hill University, Carroll College, Lebanon Valley College, McKendree University, Grove City College, Alma College, Hartwick College, John Brown University, LaGrange College, Washington College, Carthage College, Adrian College, Northwestern College, Catawba College, Marymount University, Lycoming College, Union College, Bellarmine University, Gordon College, Spring Hill College, Campbellsville University, Houghton University, Buena Vista University, Loras College, Maryville College, Christian Brothers University, Mount Mercy University, Hollins University, Georgetown College, Gardner-Webb University, Manchester University, St. Francis College, Muskingum University, Champlain College, Bethel University, University of Lynchburg, Claflin University, Wartburg College, Cedar Crest College, Mount Saint Mary College, Texas Lutheran University, King’s College, Delaware Valley University, Franklin College, Clarke University, Albright College, Lincoln Memorial University, Guilford College, Wilmington College, Emory & Henry University, Dordt University, Wheeling University, Shenandoah University, University of Northwestern-St Paul, King University, Shorter University, Stevenson University, Hiram College, Elmira College, Salem College, Columbia College, Howard Payne University, Mary Baldwin University, Bluffton University, Concordia University-Nebraska
• These institutions compare themselves to Lenoir-Rhyne University, but not vice versa: Cabarrus College of Health Sciences, Fort Valley State University, Erskine College, Capital University, Whitworth University, Reinhardt University, Brevard College, Methodist University, Huntingdon College, Piedmont University, The University of Tennessee Southern, Our Lady of the Lake University, University of Mobile, Schreiner University, Montreat College, Bethany College, Barton College, Thomas More University, Flagler College, Livingstone College, Hodges University, Lynn University, Greensboro College, Edward Waters University, Pfeiffer University, Whitworth University-Adult Degree Programs

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