Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 72.1%, so approximately 3/10 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: Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity

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

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school

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

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $20,149 (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, large, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 78% of first year students come from Ohio

• In US percentage: 95% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 72.1% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 37.7%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 15.7%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 26.5 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 10.9 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Associate’s degree, Certificate of at least 2 years but less than 4 years, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 7598 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 6.22 percent 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.

• University of Cincinnati-Main Campus lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Florida State University, University of Washington-Seattle Campus, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, University of Houston, Temple University, University of Illinois Chicago, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Louisville
• University of Cincinnati-Main Campus compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of California-Los Angeles, University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, New York University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The University of Texas at Austin, Boston University, University of California-San Diego, University of Georgia, Texas A & M University-College Station, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, University of California-Davis, Ohio State University-Main Campus, University of Maryland-College Park, Purdue University-Main Campus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus, George Washington University, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of South Carolina-Columbia, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Missouri-Columbia, Michigan State University, University of California-Riverside, Arizona State University Campus Immersion, Georgia State University, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Arizona, University of Kentucky, George Mason University, Drexel University
• These institutions compare themselves to University of Cincinnati-Main Campus, but not vice versa: Florida International University, Texas Tech University, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, Iowa State University, University of Utah, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, University of North Texas, University of Dayton, Wayne State University, The University of Texas at Dallas, Indiana University-Indianapolis, The University of Texas at Arlington, University of Missouri-Kansas City, CUNY Queens College, University of Mississippi, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, Rutgers University-Newark, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Berklee College of Music, Xavier University, University of Memphis, Heidelberg University, New York School of Interior Design, Shenandoah University, Frontier Nursing University

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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