Small Colleges: A Reappraisal Of Mutual Wisdom

I genuinely enjoyed reading close Shimer College this past times calendar week inwards Jon Ronson's interesting article for The Guardian.  Shimer, founded inwards 1853, has never had large numbers of students together with patently has fewer than 100 students now.  Yet, it somehow survives together with given the emotional responses of students together with alumni, volition probable do thus for a while.

Ronson mentioned inwards his article that Shimer is the minute smallest establishment at 1 time inwards the U.S....though at that spot are genuinely several to a greater extent than that are smaller.  So, I idea it mightiness live interesting to larn together with percentage a flake to a greater extent than close this usage of our higher pedagogy system.

Watch for several to a greater extent than posts over the side past times side few days.  I'll likewise hold off forrad to hearing your thoughts or questions!

I started this projection past times identifying the 364 populace together with independent institutions with f.t.e enrollments less than 1,000 inwards the 2013-14 academic year.  You tin zoom inwards using the map below to honour their names together with locations.


This grouping excluded for-profits, institutions that move exterior the Carnegie together with IPEDS systems for classification together with information gathering, together with a few institutions with gaps inwards their IPEDS data.  The remaining institutions were together with thus divided into viii groups using their Carnegie basic 2010 classification together with the Summary tabular array below provides the most recent basic information on enrollments together with endowments reported to IPEDS.

There is multifariousness of mission with the institutions, though nearly 80% of these modest schools are either baccalaureate institutions or are classified every bit seminaries, bible colleges, or faith-based institutions.
 

Twenty-five per centum of the institutions seem to live totally subject on tuition together with annual gifts since they do non convey endowments or study endowment returns.  Among the remaining 272 institutions, broad differences inwards wealth are reflected inwards disparities betwixt hateful together with median endowments.

I pulled together with ranked the 10 modest institutions with the largest endowments inwards the next table.  While futurity posts volition render to a greater extent than analysis of the less good off institutions, I mean value it is practiced to yell upwardly this listing when soul makes blanket claims that modest institutions must modify or close.  Some seem to live modest past times design.

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