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  • Enrollment: 1,800 students from 27 U.S. states and 39 countries (including the USA)
  • Expanding diversity: 158 U.S. students of color and 95 international students comprise 13% of total enrollment
  • Average class size: 21
  • Student-faculty ratio: 12:1
  • Students who graduate in four years: 95%
  • Full-time faculty: 109
  • Ranked faculty with highest degree in discipline: 96%
  • Retention rate: 87%
  • Students in top 10% of high school class - 28%
  • Job & graduate school placement rate - 98%
  • Students involved in music - approx. 450
  • Students involved in athletics - nearly 600
  • ’09 grads who studied abroad: 42%
  • ’08 grads who completed an academic internship: 42%
  • ’08 grads who earned honors (3.5 - 4.0): 41%
  • ’08 grads who earned highest honors (3.85 - 4.0): 9%
  • Students receiving financial aid: More than 90%
  • Ratio of men to women - 47%-53%
  • Average ACT score for first-year students: 24
  • Religious affiliation - 40% Lutheran (31 % ELCA); 24% Catholic; 12% Methodist
  • Medical school placement: 92% since 1997, compared with national average of 46%
  • Placement in health-related programs: 100% in optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physician assistant; 98% in physical therapy; 96% in dentistry
  • Facilities: 12 new buildings since 1990, most recently the $31 million Wartburg-Waverly Sports & Wellness Center
  • Endowed positions: 10 endowed chairs, 5 endowed professorships
  • Endowment value: $49 million, an increase of more than 65% over the past decade
  • 4-4-1 Calendar: Fall Term (4 courses), Winter Term (4 courses), May Term (1 course)
  • Wartburg's social work program is the oldest undergraduate program of its kind in Iowa.
  • Wartburg is the only private college in Iowa offering a major in music therapy.
  • Current costs and financial aid
  • Low crime rate
  • Value of a Lutheran college education!
Accreditation Logo Wartburg is accredited by the The Higher Learning Commission, 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, Illinois 60602-2504

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