Student Enrollment - 3,642
2009-10 Cost:
$3,375 tuition (30 credit hours per year, resident rate)
$1,130 student fees
$5,280 room and board.
Total $10,085 per year.
Average private college cost in our region: $18,000 per year.
Students from 29 States and 24 Countries
Student/Faculty Ratio - 20:1
Five Largest Undergraduate Majors
Business Administration
Elementary Education
Pre-Professional (medical, dental, pharmacy, physical therapy, etc.)
Criminal Justice
Industrial Technology
Entering Freshmen in Top 50% of high school class - 61%
Average High School GPA of entering freshmen - 3.21
Average ACT Composite of entering freshmen – 21.2
Ratio of men to women - 43% -57%
Full-time Faculty with Terminal Degrees - 76%; There are 124 full-time, ranked faculty; 90 part time; and 29 graduate assistants.
Number of Student Organizations - 97
Wayne State’s four academic schools--Arts and Humanities, Business and Technology, Education and Counseling, and Natural and Social Sciences--offer more than 80 majors and minors in 14 academic departments, awarding bachelor’s, master’s and education specialist degrees in a variety of programs and fields.
Wayne State College serves a 46 county area
Infrastructure totals 22 buildings, which includes seven residence halls, on an attractive 128 acre campus
Madison County is the largest producer of Wayne State College students in Nebraska, followed by Wayne County and Douglas County
Woodbury County is the largest producer of Wayne State College students in Iowa
There are approximately 13,500 Wayne State College alumni in the state of Nebraska. There are more than 3,200 in Iowa. The next three largest concentrations of alumni are in Colorado, South Dakota, and California. There are more than 24,500 total Wayne State College alumni.
Of students surveyed who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2007-08, 83% of alumni surveyed are either employed in their related field (70%) or enrolled in graduate school/continuing education (13.5%); 13.5% are working in other fields and 3% are unemployed.
81% of students surveyed from the 2007-08 graduation classes stayed in Nebraska for employment or graduate school
The Wayne State College Library has more than 350,000 volumes housed in more than 75,000 square feet. The library has 100 laptops available for students to check out to use in a totally wireless environment. The library’s special collections include the Val Peterson papers, the Robert Zahniser film collection, and the Children’s Book Examination Center.
Wayne State College provides high-speed or wireless internet connections to each student. All WSC residence halls and most WSC administration buildings provide wireless service.
Each WSC academic building contains more than one smart classroom, also known as technology enhanced classrooms, which create new opportunities in teaching and learning by integrating networking, digital, and audio visual technologies. |
