Waynesburg ranked ‘top value’ college
WAYNESBURG – Waynesburg University has been ranked a top value college in an outcome-based college rankings index compiled by Educate To Career.
ETC describes its rankings as an effort to deliver on the promise of the federal government’s College Scorecard by providing actual college outcomes data.
“The Index empirically determines the economic value added by each of the more than 1,200 colleges ranked within our system,” said ETC founder Michael R. Havis. “We calculate the improvement in earnings and employability of persons who attended specific colleges, relative to persons who are similarly situated in other colleges.”
Waynesburg University ranked No. 104 out of the more than 1,200 schools listed in the nationwide ETC College Rankings Index. Included in the ranking are four-year colleges with annual enrollments greater than 1,000 students.
According to ETC, colleges in the top third of the ETC Index have a relatively high percentage of graduates employed in their field of study and the earnings of graduates are relatively high.
In addition, a majority of students graduate in four or five years and loan default rates are very low.
Waynesburg University’s career path analysis report states that 96 percent of 2012 graduates reported working full time or attending graduate school within one year of graduation.
Additionally, according to the federal government’s College Scorecard, the loan default rate for Waynesburg graduates is 4.5 percent, which is substantially lower than the national average of 14.7 percent.
The ETC Index analyzes the quality of students when they enter a given college, the total costs related to attending the college and the outcomes of the students when they enter the labor market.
The rankings results are determined by which schools did the best job of improving the earnings and attainment of quality employment of their students, according to a description of the index on the group’s website.