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Southern Arkansas University Tech: Camden: Public Associate's college: 943: 1967 HLC: University of Arkansas: Fayetteville: Public Research university: 30,936: 1871 HLC: University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville: Batesville: Public Associate's college: 1,008: 1991 HLC: University of Arkansas Community College at Hope: Hope: Public ...
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Education released detailed federal student loan default rates including, for the first time, three-year default rates. For-profit institutions had the highest average three-year default rates at 22.7 percent, and public institutions rates were 11 percent and private non-profit institutions at 7.5 percent.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) Virginia State University; Virginia State University was founded in 1882, as the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. In 1902, the legislature revised the school's charter and renamed it the "Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute". In 1923, this college was renamed ...
Virginia Tech received a record number of nearly 22,500 applications for the fall 2015 freshman class, an increase of 7.6% from the previous year's 20,897 applications for an overall admissions rate of 65.8%. The typical student offered admission had a high-school grade point average of 4.00, with the middle 50 percent ranging from 3.84 and 4.27.
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [234] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
The magazine also ranked Virginia Tech's M.F.A. program 10th in poetry, which has the program continuing its upward trend. [21] In addition, the 2010 U.S. News & World Report guide to university graduate programs ranked Virginia Tech's School of Education in the top 100 schools of education. The guide also ranked the School of Education's ...
Arkansas Tech University (ATU) is a public university in Russellville, Arkansas, United States. The university offers programs at both baccalaureate and graduate levels in a range of fields. The Arkansas Tech University–Ozark Campus, a two-year satellite campus in the town of Ozark, primarily focuses on associate and certificate education.
According to ERIC (1970), the story begins in 1871 with the founding of Arkansas Industrial University, a land-grant school renamed as the University of Arkansas. The Branch Normal College for Blacks began in 1873; it became Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College in 1927, and University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1972. From time ...