Student Enrollment - 3,450
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2008-09 Cost:
$3,495 tuition (30 credit hours per year)
$1,075 student fees
$5,032 room and board.
Total $9,122 per year.
Average private college cost in our region: $18,000 per year. |
Students from 26 States and 19 Countries |
Student/Faculty Ratio - 18:1 |
Five Largest Undergraduate Majors
Business Administration
Elementary Education
Pre-Professional (medical, dental, pharmacy, physical therapy, etc.)
Criminal Justice
Life Sciences |
| Entering Freshmen in Top 50% of high school class - 58% |
| Average High School GPA of entering freshmen - 3.22 |
| Average ACT Composite of entering freshmen – 21.4; the U.S. average is 20.9 |
| Ratio of men to women - 41% -59% |
| Full-time Faculty with Terminal Degrees - 78%; There are 134 tenured/tenure track faculty; 65 part time; and 26 graduate assistants |
| Number of Student Organizations - 95 |
| Approximately 75% of our undergraduate students receive financial aid. |
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 more than 12,700 Wayne State College alumni in the state of Nebraska. There are more than 3,000 in Iowa. The next three largest concentrations of alumni are in Colorado, California and South Dakota. There are more than 23,500 total Wayne State College alumni. |
Of students surveyed who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2005-06, 90.5% of alumni surveyed are either employed in their related field (78%) or enrolled in graduate school/continuing education (12.5%); 6.5% are working in other fields; and 3% are unemployed. |
78% of students surveyed from the 2005-06 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. |
