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Wesleyan outperforms Top 10%
Wesleyan College ranks high with Princeton Review
January, 2007

According to the seventh annual report of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), Wesleyan College outperformed the Top 10% of colleges and universities nationally in all five categories studied: active and collaborative learning, enriching educational experiences, level of academic challenge, student-faculty interaction, and supportive campus environment. Among first-year student respondents and senior respondents, Wesleyan scored higher than the Top 10% of all NSSE 2006 U.S. institutions on the benchmark.

Additionally, the report’s overall findings demonstrate positive indicators of a private college experience and of a single gender educational experience over a co-educational public educational experience. Released annually in November, the NSSE project is sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and is a national effort to improve collegiate quality. The survey findings provide comparative standards for determining how effectively colleges are contributing to learning.

The 2006 NSSE report is based on information from about 260,000 randomly selected first-year and senior students at 523 four-year colleges and universities. The study gives schools an idea of how well students are learning and what they put into and get out of their undergraduate experience.

“At a time when the quality of postsecondary education seems to be slipping, participating in engaged learning activities promises to prepare students for a lifetime of continuous learning so that they and the country stay competitive in the global marketplace,” said NSSE Director George Kuh.
 
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