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What's exceptional about Wilkes Univ (wilkes) ?

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fewer undergrads; less good at writing

Wilkes Univ has the fewest undergrads among full-time students (45.8%) of the 432 colleges with a 25th percentile SAT writing score of 460 or less. That 45.8% compares to an average of 82.5% across the 432 colleges.



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after Wilkes Univ (45.8%, 460), closest are U of St Francis (53.8%, 410), Gardner-Webb Univ (55%, 410), U of Bridgeport (55.1%, 410), and Dominican Univ (55.6%, 450), ending with Chowan Univ (99.4%, 340).

223 out of the other 431 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads among full-time students, e.g., U of Baltimore.

References

  1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.

Profile

Wilkes Univ is in Wilkes-Barre, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Middle Atlantic States Athletic Corporation, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (284th place)
  • research spending ($1.1M)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($75,535)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,326)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,326)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($18,460)
  • average undergrad student loan ($9,027)
  • endowment per full-time student ($8,532)
  • cost of a shared room ($7,228)
  • research spending per student ($135)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
  • full-time retention rate (80%)
  • in-state freshmen (76.3%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.6%)
  • undergrads among full-time students (45.8%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
  • grad students who are under 25 years old (15.6%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.6%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.6%)
  • minorities (5.3%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (2%)
  • Hispanics (1.8%)
  • Asians (1.4%)
  • foreign students (1.3%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.2%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • dorm capacity (878)
  • first-year applicants (2,811)
  • foreign students (107)
  • full-time grad students (468)
  • full-time undergrads (2,095)
  • grad students (2,728)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,710)
  • undergrads (2,302)
  • yearly for-credit students (8,187)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
  • students per faculty member (14)
  • annual rainfall (40.7 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
  • elevation (159 meters)

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