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.

Map

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. 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

Diversity

The US Census Bureau has a diversity index that goes from 0 to 1. In their words, “A 0-value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.” This uses their formula, but with the resolution available for the federal IPEDS data (which does not separate for a given demographic group whether members identify as Hispanic or not). This metric is about heterogeneity within the population, not the proportion of the population that comes from historically excluded groups.

Following the practice of the census, the index is multiplied by 100 to give the percentage probability a random pair of individuals will have a different background. Most institutions argue that diversity is a benefit, so by default a higher number is listed as better, but there may be cases where this measure does not reflect the mission of a college (for example, 70% of the students at a tribal college or university may be American Indian: that could be low-scoring by this metric but should not be read as “bad” given the institution’s mission).

These numbers are based on the most recent year available, generally 2023, which predates effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down of affirmative action. This has often changed, sometimes dramatically, the incoming student demographics at some institutions.

Test scores

Majors

This presents information on the number of majors and the median earnings one and five years after graduation for people who got a degree from this institution in that field. The earnings are for those who are working and not enrolled in further education. The earnings data (from the federal college scorecard) also has information on earnings for those categorized as ‘MALE’ and ‘NOMALE’ – for readability, these are recategorized here as “Men” and “Women”, respectively, which adopts the gender binary used in other federal data. “W/M earnings ratio” is the median earnings of women divided by men, as a percentage.