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Fact Sheet
Enrollment at Winona State is 7,500 which include undergraduate and graduate students. The average ACT score of new entering freshmen has steadily increased over the past five years and in fall of 2000 was 24. The high school percentile ranking of new entering freshmen also continues to increase each year. Winona State University is divided into five distinctive colleges: the College of Business, the College of Education, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and the College of Science and Engineering. The university offers 8 master's degree programs, 60 undergraduate degree programs, 11 pre-professional programs and several licensure and specialist degree programs. Winona State is home to the first undergraduate degree program in Composite Materials Engineering in the nation. This program provides training and testing support for the growing composite materials industry in the Winona area. Becoming known internationally as "Composites Valley," the Winona area is home to more than a dozen companies involved in manufacturing products using the advanced reinforced plastics materials. WSU is the only Minnesota College or University in the book, America's 100 College Best Buys, for the fourth consecutive year (2001, John Culler and Sons, Camden, S.C.). The book uses independent research to choose schools that provided quality four-year degree programs at reasonable cost. Winona State was the only Minnesota school included in this guide for college-bound students and their parents. In recent years, WSU has also been noted in several other nationally-released books on quality in higher education, including: Smart Parents Guide to College, by Boyer and Boyer (1996, Peterson's, Princeton, N.J.), and Indicators of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (1996, The National Center for Higher Education Management Systems). In the August/September 1993 issue of Your Money magazine, Winona State was listed as one of the top 100 "most affordable" colleges in the country. The ranking was based on the school's annual cost including tuition, fees, room and board, and most importantly, the financial aid packages offered to students. Last year, 72 percent of all WSU students received some form of financial aid including grants, loans and work-study programs. The average award was about $3,000. Total financial aid awards at WSU last year amounted to $17.5 million. In fall 1991, WSU opened the Residential College, located in Lourdes Hall at the former College of Saint Teresa campus. The Residential College provides students with the living-learning environment of a small private school at the cost of a public institution. The program began with 50 freshman, this year more than 150 students are involved in the collaborative learning atmosphere of the Residential College. In a USA Today newspaper report on campus crime in Dec. 1990, Winona State was ranked among the top five safest college campuses in the nation. The university has its own campus security force and maintains several programs aimed at providing a safe learning environment for its students. Located in the southeast corner of Minnesota situated between towering bluffs and the Mississippi River, Winona State University is located in the city of Winona, a residential community of 25,000. The WSU-Rochester Center, located 45 miles west in the growing city of Rochester, Minn., helps the university to better serve the academic needs of the region.
President: Dr. Judith A. Ramaley Last Modified: Thursday, May 08, 2008 14:00 by Andrea Mikkelsen |