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The Present
BY THE NUMBERS
Some facts about Bradley
University, according to
information in its catalog:
6,000
students: Includes 5,200
undergraduate students and 800
graduate students.
100
+ undergraduate programs
in five colleges; 38 graduate
programs.
12:1
student to faculty ratio, with
an average class size of 23.
92%
placement rate within six
months of graduation.
14
NCAA Division I athletic teams;
seven men’s and seven women’s
sports.
39
team national championships in
speech, and 141 individual national
speech titles.
“
We do what we call a holistic
review of the applicants. We look
at grades, test scores, the schools
they are coming from and the
curricula of those schools. We
look at all those factors when
making a decision about a stu-
dent and it serves us well. Last
fall’s incoming freshman class
was among the highest academic
classes Bradley has ever had and
we want to continue to maintain
or even enhance the academic
quality of our incoming classes in
the future,” he said.
Bradley readily accepts junior
college transfers and appreciates
those students are often a step
ahead because they’ve experi-
enced college in one form or an-
other before transferring in. But
it will review those applications
the same as it does for incom-
ing freshman or for its graduate
school applications.
TOP 10 MAJORS
Below are the top 10 majors, in terms
of headcount, at Bradley University in
the current school year.
1.
Communications
2.
Mechanical engineering
3.
Nursing
4.
Health science
5.
Psychology
6.
Family and consumer science
7.
Civil engineering
8. (
Tie) Biology and accounting
10.
Business management
