Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 45.2%, so approximately 1/2 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: Larger Programs

• Undergrad program: Professions focus, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Postbaccalaureate: Comprehensive programs

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

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $25,636 (1.3 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 Ohio

• In US percentage: 79% of first year students come from the US

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 45.2% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 36.4%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 30.8%

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

• Student to faculty ratio: 22.4 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 1015 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

+−

Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap, ODbL

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.

• Tiffin University lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: The University of Findlay, Ashland University
• Tiffin University compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Trinity University, Mississippi College, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Gallaudet University, University of Dayton, Walla Walla University, Bethel University, Bryant University, Lee University, LeTourneau University, Butler University, North Central College, Baldwin Wallace University, Belhaven University, Abilene Christian University, Molloy College, Alvernia University, Jacksonville University, Gwynedd Mercy University, Newman University, Chatham University, Mount St. Joseph University, Manhattan College, Alfred University, Anderson University, Wagner College, Freed-Hardeman University, University of Mount Union, University of Portland, Pacific Lutheran University, Queens University of Charlotte, Capital University, Bob Jones University, Otterbein University, Southern Nazarene University, Assumption University, Ohio Dominican University, Norwich University, Misericordia University, Concordia University-Saint Paul, Mount St. Mary’s University, North Park University, Walsh University, Union College, University of Saint Joseph, Point Park University, Waynesburg University, Stetson University, Fresno Pacific University, Hood College, Daemen University, Dominican University of California, Christian Brothers University, Rockford University, Georgian Court University, Muskingum University, Texas Wesleyan University, Avila University, Aquinas College, Mount Saint Mary College, Hardin-Simmons University, Marietta College, Cairn University-Langhorne, Cabrini University, Carlow University, Malone University, Edgewood College, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Dominican University New York, Lincoln Memorial University, Oakland City University, Northeastern University Oakland, Missouri Baptist University, Anna Maria College, Ursuline College, Centenary University, Chestnut Hill College, Concordia University-Chicago, Westminster University, American International College, Bluffton University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Houston Christian University, Tusculum University, Notre Dame College
• These institutions compare themselves to Tiffin University, but not vice versa: Peirce College, Principia College, University of Rio Grande, William Woods University, University of Northwestern Ohio, Heidelberg University, Union Institute & 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).