Ohio Wesleyan University

"It's easy to read about poverty in books, but the area we visited in El Salvador was unlike anything I have ever seen. It changed me."
Alphonso Taylor '11 Sociology & Spanish

Just the Facts.

We are ranked in the top 20% nationally among the liberal arts institutions rated by Washington Monthly on the basis of performance as engines of social mobility, contributions to fostering scientific and humanistic research, and promotion of an ethic of service to country.

We are among the 8% of America's most distinguished colleges and universities that boast a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

We are one of only five independent undergraduate schools in the nation whose graduates rank in the top 20 both in the number of Ph.D.s earned and in the number of business leaders.

We were one of just 10 universities in the country selected by the Institute of International Education to participate in the new International Academic Partnerships Program to explore opportunities with institutions in India.

We were named one of "The Decade's 15 Hottest Colleges" by The Daily Beast, and unigo.com listed us as one of higher education's top 10 "Best Kept Secrets."

We have student acceptance rates for medical and law school that are far above the national averages. Our law school acceptance rate is 95% and our five-year acceptance rate for medical and dental school is nearly twice the national average.

We were named one of the nation's top 25 service-oriented colleges by Newsweek.

We are one of a select group of colleges and universities that merit inclusion in The Fiske Guide to Colleges, the Princeton Review's annual Best Colleges guide, and The Templeton Foundation's Colleges That Encourage Character Development

We have one of the highest percentages of international students of any private, liberal arts institution.

We compete in one of the best NCAA Division III conferences in the country — the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). We've won national championships, and have more conference championships and more academic All-Americans than any other school in the NCAC.

We are one of just 40 schools included in the highly-respected guide Colleges That Change Lives.

We were one of just three universities in the country to merit a 2009 Presidential Award for General Excellence in Community Service.

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61 S. Sandusky Street, Delaware, Ohio, 43015 | Phone: (800) 922-8953 or (740) 368-2000