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Founded in 1850, Illinois Wesleyan is a highly selective liberal arts university with an enrollment of just over 2,000 undergraduates from 34 states and 22 countries.

Academics: Illinois Wesleyan’s distinctive liberal arts curriculum is at the core of our 50 majors and programs.  Courses of study range from the humanities, languages and sciences to programs in business and economics, the  fine arts and nursing.  The University also offers a wide range of pre-professional and interdisciplinary programs.  With average class sizes of 17 and an 11 to 1 student-faculty ratio, students at Illinois Wesleyan get the personal attention from faculty that is often missing at large universities.

Campus: The University’s residential campus covers 80 tree-filled acres and has 35 buildings, including 24 living options. Co-curricular programming is diverse, with 165 student organizations and groups and 18 Titan varsity teams for men and women.

Outcomes: Student satisfaction and success are reflected in a 93 percent freshmen retention rate and the fact that better than 9 in 10 graduating seniors complete their degree in four years.

Strategic Initiatives: As part of the University’s strategic planning and visioning approved by the Board of Trustees in 2006, a number of strategic initiatives have become campus priorities, including community engagement,diversity, environmental sustainability, globalization and social justice.

Location: Illinois Wesleyan is located in the central Illinois twin cities of Bloomington-Normal, a community of 110,000 located about two hours south of Chicago and north of St. Louis.

Experience for a Lifetime

Illinois Wesleyan University is a highly selective liberal arts university that fosters a community where students can freely pursue their multiple passions, both in and out of the classroom. Through intimate contact with faculty and heavy involvement in extracurricular activities, Illinois Wesleyan students develop into scholars, artists, leaders and citizens that impact the world in a very positive way.

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Why Illinois Wesleyan?

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Hope College is a distinguished and distinctive four-year, liberal arts, undergraduate college, affiliated with the Reformed Church in America. Its great religious heritage is expressed through a dynamic Christian community of students and teachers vitally concerned with a relevant faith that changes lives and transforms society. The curriculum offers a variety of courses in 87 majors leading to a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The college has long been known for outstanding pre-professional training. Each year many graduates go on to further study in the leading graduate and professional schools in this country and abroad; others directly enter professions. During the 2009-10 school year, Hope enrolled 3,230 students from 42 states and territories and 30 foreign countries.

Hope College is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission* and a member of the North Central Association. Hope is also accredited by the American Chemical Society, the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the Council on Social Work Education, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the National Association of Schools of Dance, the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Association of Schools of Theatre, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the Engineering Commission of ABET and Technology for the Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in engineering, and other agencies.

Hope Occupies a special place in the vast array of educational opportunities offered in the United States. It makes its contribution to the vitality and diversity of American higher education through the distinctiveness of its educational philosophy and program. As a liberal arts college offering education within the context of the historic Christian faith, Hope is a place of open inquiry, acceptance of intellectual challenge, rigorous engagement with hard questions, and vigorous but civil discussion of different beliefs and understandings; in the words of the Covenant of Mutual Responsibilities between the Reformed Church in America and its colleges, it is a place characterized by "an atmosphere of search and confrontation that will liberate the minds, enhance the discernment, enlarge the sympathies, and encourage the commitments of all students entrusted to (it)." For more than a century, Hope has cherished the conviction that life is God’s trust, a trust which each of us is called to personally activate by an insistent concern for intelligent involvement in the human community and its problems.

Hope’s Reason for being is each individual student. It seeks to develop the growth of each student as a competent, creative, and compassionate person. Its design is to provide a complete opportunity for the fulfillment of each individual student, not only for his or her self-gratification, but also for what can be given to others in service to God and humanity.

Hope Believes that a vital faith, which provides both the incentive and dynamic for learning and living, is central to education and life.

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At Ball State, we’re more than just educators—we’re educational entrepreneurs. Combining top-flight talent with the top-notch resources Ball State has to offer, our students and faculty inject endless energy and creativity into what they teach and how they learn. The result—a university The Princeton Review calls one of the best in the Midwest.

Breadth + Focus

As a comprehensive university, Ball State offers a wealth of academic opportunities, including about 180 undergraduate majors and preprofessional programs, and more than 100 master’s and doctoral degrees. And our programs in architecture, telecommunications, landscape architecture, education, entrepreneurship, and online master’s degree in nursing are consistently ranked among the best in the nation. That excellence is due to the quality of our faculty and their commitment to teaching. More than 90 percent of our classes are taught by professors. That’s almost unheard of at an institution of Ball State’s size.

Immersion + Exploration

Ball State believes that for an educational experience to be successful, it should be just that—an experience. So we’ve made a unique commitment to immersive learning programs that incorporate research, projects with community partners, and capstone experiences into the curriculum. Ball State students run NewsLink Indiana, a full-service media news operation serving east central Indiana. Acting, musical theatre, and telecommunications students participate in talent showcases in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Students in our Student Technology Incubator can develop and launch their own businesses, giving them a head start in the business world before they ever leave college.

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Founded in 1844, Hillsdale College is an independent, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college with a student body of about 1,300. Its four-year curriculum leads to the bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree, and it is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Hillsdale’s educational mission rests upon two principles: academic excellence and institutional independence.  The College does not accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies for any of its operations.

Located in rural southern Michigan, the nearly 200-acre Hillsdale campus includes both modern and historic buildings.  Excellent facilities include comfortable residence halls, subject-specific computer labs, a state-of-the-art health education and sports complex, Michael Alex Mossey Library with its Leighton-Taylor Wing, the Sage Center for the Arts, the Herbert Henry Dow Science Building, Howard Music Hall and two new classroom buildings—Kendall Hall and Lane Hall.  Adjacent to the campus is the model primary and secondary school, Hillsdale Academy, whose comprehensive Reference Guide is used in hundreds of schools throughout the country. 

An ideal student-to-faculty ratio of 10-to-1, rigorous academics, intramural sports, national fraternity and sorority houses and widespread community volunteerism nurture intellectual, physical, social and personal growth.  A broad perspective is encouraged through opportunities for off-campus internships, overseas study programs and the adjunct seminars of the Center for Constructive Alternatives, Mises Lectures in free-market economics, the National Leadership Seminars and the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence.

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