Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields

• Undergrad program: Balanced arts & sciences/professions, no graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Not classified (Exclusively Undergraduate)

• Enrollment profile: Exclusively undergraduate four-year (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: Unknown .

• 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, very small, primarily nonresidential

• In state percentage: 100% of first year students come from Washington

• In US percentage: 100% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Presbyterian

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 29.0 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 21.0 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Bachelor’s degree

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: No

• Freshmen required to live on campus: Not applicable

• 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. 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.

• Whitworth University-Adult Degree Programs lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Linfield University
• Whitworth University-Adult Degree Programs compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Mississippi College, Tuskegee University, Whitman College, Gallaudet University, Ohio Northern University, Augustana College, Wheaton College, Bryant University, Lipscomb University, Hope College, Calvin University, Florida Southern College, St. John Fisher University, Oklahoma City University, Drury University, Moravian University, Gustavus Adolphus College, Luther College, North Central College, Springfield College, Baldwin Wallace University, Eastern University, John Carroll University, Clarkson University, University of St Thomas, Chatham University, Loyola University New Orleans, Saint Ambrose University, Manhattan College, DeSales University, Alfred University, Wagner College, Le Moyne College, Carroll College, University of Redlands, Elmhurst University, University of Portland, University of Puget Sound, Central College, Niagara University, Pacific Lutheran University, Queens University of Charlotte, Capital University, California Lutheran University, Saint Norbert College, Saint Mary’s College of California, Otterbein University, George Fox University, Canisius University, Westmont College, Kettering University, Hamline University, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Assumption University, John Brown University, Saint Edward’s University, Norwich University, Albion College, University of Evansville, Western New England University, St Catherine University, North Park University, Seattle Pacific University, York College of Pennsylvania, Westminster College, Pacific University, Valparaiso University, Gordon College, The College of Saint Scholastica, Stetson University, Hood College, Buena Vista University, St. Mary’s University, La Salle University, Endicott College, Iona University, University of Lynchburg, Hardin-Simmons University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Xavier University of Louisiana, Roosevelt University, King’s College, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Dordt University, University of Dubuque, Stevenson University, Westminster University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Curry College, Lesley University, Wingate University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Houston Christian University, Wayland Baptist University
• These institutions compare themselves to Whitworth University-Adult Degree Programs, but not vice versa: Northwest University-Center for Online and Extended Education

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.

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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.