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Fast Facts
About Wartburg
- Graduates who complete
degree in four years or less- 98%
- Student enrollment
- 1,810 (24 states, 43 countries)
- Student-faculty ratio
- 12:1
- Average class size - 21
- Five largest majors (in
order): business administration, biology, communication
arts, elementary education, music education
- Regents scholars
on campus - approx. 40% of student body
- Students in top 10% of
high school class - 31%
- Job and graduate school
placement rate - 99%
- Retention rate
- 86%
- Students involved in music
- approx. 450
- Students involved in athletics
- nearly 600
- '07 graduates who studied
abroad - 33%
- '07 graduates involved
in internships - 40%
- '07 graduates who graduated
with honors - 35%
- '07 graduates who graduated
with top honors - 10%
- Students who receive financial
aid - Nearly 100%
- Ratio of men to women
- 48%-52%
- Diversity Population
- 13% (U.S. Ethnic Minorities 7%; International 6%)
- Average high school GPA
- 3.52; mid 50% range of composite ACT is 21-26
- Religious affiliation
- 41% Lutheran (31 % ELCA); 24% Catholic; 12% Methodist
- Facilities
- Since 1990, the college has opened 12 new buildings.
- Faculty
- 88% of ranked faculty have terminal degrees
- 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 on Wartburg's Campus
- Value
of a Lutheran college education!
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National
Recognition:
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Wartburg is one of of
only 34 colleges profiled as a college of distinction in
the central U.S. region.
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The
2008 Princeton Review ranks Wartburg
among the 161 best colleges in the Midwestern Region.
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Peterson's
Top Colleges for Science lists Wartburg among 200
top colleges for four-year programs in biological, geological,
mathematical, and physical sciences. |
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Peterson's
Competitive Colleges includes Wartburg on its list
of top colleges for top students. |
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U.S.News
& World Report includes Wartburg as one of the
top liberal arts colleges in the nation in its 2008 edition
of America's Best Colleges. |
| Barron's
Best Buys in College Education lists Wartburg
as one of some 247 colleges offering the best value for the
student's dollar. |
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