Academics
Majors and faculty
The most popular major is Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse (23% of graduates). 9 students for every faculty member, fewer than at 84% of colleges. 96% of faculty are full-time. Spends $12,697 a year on instruction per student.
Most popular majors
202 bachelor's degrees, 2024–25 graduates
The top 5 programs account for 52% of graduates; 30 programs in 18 fields awarded at least one.
- Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse 51.380123% 46Graduates in this field earn $81,610 4 years out
- Biology/Biological Sciences, General 26.01017.9% 16
- Psychology, General 42.01017.4% 15
- Organizational Behavior Studies 52.10037.4% 15
- Business Administration and Management, General 52.02016.9% 14
Fastest-growing field: Business, 16% → 18% of graduates since 2014–15 (37 graduates in 2024–25).
Source:IPEDS Completions survey (degrees awarded by field), 2014–15 to 2024–25About the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)
Bachelor's degrees awarded July through June, by federal program name (), which can differ from what the college calls a major. A double major counts once, under the ; its other field is a . Earnings are College Scorecard's median for graduates of the program's broader field (), 4 years after completion; see Top-earning majors below.
Top-earning majors here
By earnings 4 years after completion
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing$81,610 4 yrs out
1 year after completion: $73,478
4 years after completion$81,610National median: $88,910Below typical4 years out, Pell: $70,419 · Non-Pell: $74,438(an older graduating class than the figure above — see the (i) for why)
Median federal debt: $21,500 · 136 graduates, two most recent years combined
Human Resources Management and Services$60,136 1 yr out
1 year after completion: $60,136
4 years after completion: Too few graduates to report
Median federal debt: Too few graduates to report · 49 graduates, two most recent years combined
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities$53,229 4 yrs out
1 year after completion: $46,585
4 years after completion$53,229National median: $53,072About typicalMedian federal debt: $27,000 · 55 graduates, two most recent years combined
Bachelor's programs only, among graduates who received federal financial aid and were working (not enrolled in school) in the measurement year.
The college also reports 9 to 1 in its Common Data Set (1,221 students, 139 faculty).
Not the average class size: faculty also teach graduate students and do research, and large lectures can sit alongside small seminars.
Class sizes
71%
of classes have fewer than 20 students; 1% have 50 or more
| Students | sections | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2–9 | 49 | 20% |
| 10–19 | 124 | 51% |
| 20–29 | 44 | 18% |
| 30–39 | 16 | 7% |
| 40–49 | 7 | 3% |
| 50–99 | 2 | 1% |
| 100+ | 0 | 0% |
This counts class sections, not students: a lecture of 300 is one section, so a student is more likely to sit in a large class than the share of sections suggests. Labs and discussion sections are counted separately and left out here.
$58,069
9-month equated, all ranks combined. Pay tracks local cost of living as much as a college's generosity.
Spending and endowment
Fiscal 2023–24. Compared only against other private nonprofit colleges: public and private colleges report finances on different accounting forms that aren't comparable.
Sources:IPEDS Completions survey (degrees awarded by field), 2024–25 graduates;College Scorecard Field of Study data, most recent release;IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey (part D), Fall 2024;IPEDS Salaries survey (SAL, instructional staff, all ranks), Fall 2024;College Scorecard, Fall 2024;IPEDS Finance survey, derived per-student figures, 2023–24;Eastern Mennonite University Common Data Set 2017–18, Fall 2017;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey (athletics, programs, services, religious affiliation), 2025–26About the data(retrieved 2026-10-12)