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Wofford College has the 3rd-highest PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (161st place) of the 91 United Methodist colleges.



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beat out by Duke (44th place) and Southern Methodist Univ (147th place).

tied with DePauw Univ (161st place).

Incidentally, all 4 have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat Ohio Northern Univ (198th place), Emory (206th place), Ohio Wesleyan Univ (234th place), and American Univ (270th place), and others, ending with Bethune-Cookman Univ (1,000th place).

References

  1. Mid-career median salary rankings are from the 2014 college salary report at http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014.
  2. The college's religious affiliation (if any) 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).

Profile

Wofford College is in Spartanburg, SC, is private and nonprofit, is in the Southern Conference, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (65th place)
  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (161st place)
  • endowment per full-time student ($90,154)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($69,441)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,555)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,555)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($24,889)
  • average undergrad student loan ($6,366)
  • cost of a shared room ($5,460)
  • research spending ($0.0K)
  • research spending per student ($0.0)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
  • full-time retention rate (89%)
  • in-state freshmen (48.6%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.8%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (45%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.4%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (14.1%)
  • minorities (12.6%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
  • disabled students (7%)
  • Asians (2.7%)
  • Hispanics (2.3%)
  • foreign students (1.6%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.4%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.3%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
  • average January temperature (42.0 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (1,478)
  • first-year applicants (3,197)
  • foreign students (26)
  • full-time undergrads (1,596)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (6)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,950)
  • undergrads (1,619)
  • yearly for-credit students (1,617)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.8)
  • students per faculty member (12)
  • annual rainfall (48.4 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
  • elevation (231 meters)

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