Academic excellence
The facts
- Our focus is on
excellence in undergraduate teaching and learning.
- Courses are taught be highly-qualified faculty — 78% of full-time faculty members hold doctorates or other terminal degrees in their field.
- We have one professor for every 12 students.
- 58% of classes have less than 20 students.
- 65% of our bachelor's degree-seeking students graduate within four years and 74% graduate within six years. These are the best rates in the state.
- The graduation rate of Minnesota's nonprofit colleges is the highest in the Midwest — higher than the region's public systems as well as the other states' nonprofit colleges.
- Looking nationally, the graduation rate of Minnesota's nonprofit colleges ranks fifth.
- Our students receive
national and international recognition. Recent awards from the last five
years include:
- 5 Rhodes Scholars
- 1 Truman Scholar
- 20 Goldwater Scholars
- 8 Watson Fellows
- 44 Fulbright Student Scholars
- 93 National Science Foundation research awards are active at our institutions, generating more than $26.5 million in research support.
- 24% of our
alumni pursue graduate-level education immediately upon earning their
bachelor's degrees.
- Of individuals who earned their baccalaureate degrees from any Minnesota institution and then went on to earn a doctorate, 52% earned their baccalaureate degrees from one of Minnesota's Private Colleges.
- 78% of alumni say their private college professors challenged them and personally helped them meet the challenge — compared to 39% of public institution alumni.
- 89% of our graduates benefited from experiential learning through study abroad, other off-campus study, faculty-directed research and internships.
- 97% of our graduates believe the amount they or their family paid for college was "worth it."
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