Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 51.1%, so approximately 1/2 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

• 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: Medium Programs

• Undergrad program: Professions focus, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Postbaccalaureate: Business-dominant, with other professional programs

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

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $21,571 (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: 81% of first year students come from Ohio

• In US percentage: 97% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Friends

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 51.1% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 42.7%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 26.6 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 16.6 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 757 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 9.93 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.

• Malone University lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Cedarville University, Spring Arbor University, Trevecca Nazarene University, The University of Findlay, Ashland University, George Fox University, Geneva College, Waynesburg University, Houghton University, Roberts Wesleyan University, Eastern Mennonite University, Goshen College, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Ursuline College, Grace College and Theological Seminary
• Malone University compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Anderson University, Union University, Wheaton College, Bethel University, Taylor University, Messiah University, Lipscomb University, Lee University, LeTourneau University, Calvin University, California Baptist University, Point Loma Nazarene University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Baldwin Wallace University, Eastern University, Milligan University, John Carroll University, Huntington University, Covenant College, Anderson University, Trinity Christian College, University of Mount Union, Vanguard University of Southern California, Southern Nazarene University, Westmont College, Olivet Nazarene University, John Brown University, Whitworth University, Judson University, Northwestern College, North Park University, Walsh University, Seattle Pacific University, Friends University, The Master’s University and Seminary, MidAmerica Nazarene University, Gordon College, Fresno Pacific University, Campbellsville University, Corban University, Cornerstone University, University of Sioux Falls, Charleston Southern University, Oklahoma Christian University, Bethel University, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, University of Mobile, Northwest Nazarene University, East Texas Baptist University, Eastern Nazarene College, Southwest Baptist University, Greenville University, Faulkner University, Montreat College, University of Northwestern-St Paul, Colorado Christian University, Warner University, Trinity International University-Illinois, North Greenville University, Shorter University, Simpson University, Bluffton University, Wisconsin Lutheran College, Dallas Baptist University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Warner Pacific University
• These institutions compare themselves to Malone University, but not vice versa: Saint Vincent College, Asbury University, Viterbo University, Lawrence Technological University, William Woods University, Ohio Dominican University, Benedictine College, Hood College, Manchester University, Wittenberg University, Thomas More University, Tiffin 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).