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Benchmarking Ohio Wesleyan Univ against all colleges

 

Ohio Wesleyan Univ has the 3rd-highest average grant aid to undergrads ($26,952) of the 248 private colleges in the Great Lakes area that aren't research intensive. Those $26,952 compare to an average of $14,394 across the 248 private colleges.

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outdone by Earlham College ($30,211) and Kenyon College ($28,317).

Incidentally, all 3 enroll from 1,000 to 4,999 students. None of the 3 is open admission. None of the 3 grants doctorates. All 3 offer on-campus housing.

outdid Denison Univ ($26,283), Ohio Northern Univ ($25,616), Cleveland Inst. of Music ($25,436), and The College of Wooster ($25,322), and others, ending with Pontifical College Josephinum ($1,844).

58 out of the other 247 private colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Rush Univ.

References

  1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
  3. Whether a college is research intensive is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).