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"On many counts, Ohio Wesleyan is one of the best academic bargains in the country. A chemistry professor voiced a prevailing faculty attitude when he said, 'Regardless of where a kid comes from, we can take him somewhere.'"
-Loren Pope
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CHARACTER |
- Private, coed, independent, liberal arts college founded in 1842 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Ohio Wesleyan’s liberal arts and pre-professional curriculum is combined with extensive opportunities for travel-learning throughout the world.
- The University emphasizes service; more than 80 percent of the student body participates in local, national, or international service each year. For three consecutive years, Ohio Wesleyan has earned the President’s Award for Community Service, with Distinction, and in 2010, OWU was awarded the President’s Award for Excellence in General Community Service, one of only three universities in the country to be recognized with that designation.
- Ohio Wesleyan University’s spacious 200-acre campus is located in the heart of Delaware, Ohio, a city of 34,000 located just 20. miles north of Columbus, the state capital and the nation’s 16th-largest city. Delaware offers small-town amenities and friendliness, and Columbus offers a rich cultural life, professional sports, fine dining and shopping, and myriad opportunities for internships and service learning.
- Ohio Wesleyan’s campus blends uniquely traditional and contemporary buildings, including a science center with the most up-to-date instrumentation, including a scanning transmission electronic microscope; and a new aquatics center, which is a “green” building heated and cooled by 90 geothermal wells. Ohio Wesleyan’s oldest and most historic residence hall is being renovated to become a premier campus addess, and upgrades have been made to a variety of athletic facilities.
- Offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music.
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WORTH NOTING |
- OWU is listed on the “Honor Roll of Character-Building Colleges” and “Colleges That Encourage Character Development” issued by the John Templeton Foundation.
- OWU is included in The Princeton Review’s 2011 edition of the Best 373 Colleges and U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 edition of America’s Best Colleges. The university also recently was elected for inclusion in both the 2012 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges” and in Forbes magazine’s list of “America’s Top Colleges.” The Princeton Review also ranked Ohio Wesleyan as one of its “Best in the Midwest” colleges and OWU’s students as No. 15 on its list of the nation’s “Happiest Students.”
- Ohio Wesleyan is accredited by
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
- Ohio Department of Education
- American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training
- National Association of Schools of Music
- The Higher Learning Commission
- OWU offers a superb honors program that challenges students with specially designed tutorials, honors courses, independent study, and one-to-one collaboration with faculty. A new Honors House is a living option for upperclass honors students.
- A Summer Science Research Program offers students an opportunity to work intensively one to one with faculty members for a 10-week period and to present their work at a culminating symposium.
- A robust program of travel-learning opportunities on six continents allows students to unite theory and practice in a global context. Domestically, students augment curricular work through such hands-on programs as Wesleyan in Washington, which allows them to receive credit for working in government settings in Washington, D.C.; the New York Arts Program, in which students experience the world of professional artists and organizations in New York City; and the Philadelphia Center, which combines for-credit internship, academic study, and independent city living.
- Ohio Wesleyan students have the unique opportunity to design and propose individual research projects funded by a University-sponsored theory-to-practice competitive grant process. Almost all of these experiences are international in scope and take place in countries other than the United States. Students recently have studied in Pakistan, India, China, Brazil, Costa Rica, England, Poland, and Crete.
- OWU offers a strong pre-professional course of study within a classic liberal arts curriculum, with professional school acceptance nearly double the national average.
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ENROLLMENT |
- Total enrollment 1850; 56% female, 44% male
- 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio
- Students represent 47 states and 47 countries
- 9% international students; 10% U.S. multicultural students
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FACULTY & ACADEMICS |
- 139 full-time faculty members
- 100% of tenure-track professors hold a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree
in their field.
- Faculty members are intellectually challenging, dedicated to every student's development, and personally involved in students' progress.
- All class instruction is provided by faculty; there are no teaching
assistants.
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TUITION & FEES |
- 95% of students receive some type of merit and/or need-based aid.
- Average merit/financial aid award: more than $30,000
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CAMPUS LIFE |
- Ohio Wesleyan is a residential campus.
- OWU is a competitive member of the NCAA Division III and North
Coast Athletic Conference, (NCAC) and has won the NCAC All-Sports Trophy
nine times. The University has more Academic All-America scholar-athletes and more championships than any other school in the conference.
- Ohio Wesleyan offers nearly 100 student clubs and organizations.
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ACADEMIC PROFILE OF ENTERING CLASS |
- Mid 50% SAT range: 1030-1290
- 61% of students rank in the top 25% of their high school classes.
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