{"id":2711,"date":"2015-06-12T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/iea\/?page_id=2711"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T22:32:52","slug":"st-olaf-comparison-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/iea\/st-olaf-comparison-group\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Olaf College Institutional Comparison Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>St. Olaf has identified a group of twenty higher education institutions that are similar to the college in a number of important respects. Data from these comparison institutions can provide helpful context in making decisions or evaluating outcomes.\u00a0 The criteria used to select the group follows the list of institutions below:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agnes Scott College (GA)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allegheny College (PA)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dickinson College (PA)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gettysburg College (PA)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gustavus Adolphus College (MN)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hendrix College (AR)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kalamazoo College (MI)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knox College (IL)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawrence University (WI)<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lewis &amp; Clark College (OR)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ohio Wesleyan University (OH)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saint Mary&#8217;s College (IN)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Lawrence College (NY)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. John&#8217;s University (MN)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Lawrence University (NY)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The College of Wooster (OH)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: initial;\">Westmont College (CA)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wheaton College (IL)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wheaton College (MA)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The comparison group was selected from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an initial pool of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">private, not for profit <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">institutions with the following <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu\/\">Carnegie Classification<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">characteristics<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Majority of students are undergraduate (Enrollment Profile)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some or no graduate degrees awarded (Undergraduate Instructional Program)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four-year small or medium size, highly residential <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Size and Setting)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selective or more selective, lower transfer in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Undergraduate Profile)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Primarily arts &amp; sciences majors awarded, or balanced with professional majors (Undergraduate Instructional Program)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For each of the institutions in this initial pool, we calculated the total annual financial resources per student FTE, averaged over three years (FY2020, FY2021, FY2022), using publicly-available data from the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/ipeds\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IPEDS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u00a0 Total annual resources consisted of revenues from:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuition and fees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government grants and contracts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private gifts, grants, or contracts\/contributions from affiliated entities<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other core revenues<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5% of endowment assets (year end)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We then rank-ordered the initial pool of institutions, including St. Olaf, according to their 3-year average total annual resources\/student FTE.\u00a0 The final institutional comparison group consists of the 10 institutions immediately above and below St. Olaf, relative to this measure of financial resources, so that St. Olaf\u2019s financial resources would be at the median for our 20 comparison institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Comparison group updated 3\/14\/2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Olaf has identified a group of twenty higher education institutions that are similar to the college in a number of important respects. 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