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- More than 60,000 students attend Wisconsin’s twenty private colleges and universities
- More than 90% of full time undergraduate students receive financial aid
- Almost 50% of the students at Wisconsin’s private colleges will graduate in four years.
- According to a national survey, the average graduation time at a private college is 4.5 years. At a public university, the same survey showed, the average graduation time is 6.2 years
- In 2008-09, the average net tuition (actual tuition charge – financial aid package) was $4,737.
- The average class size at a Wisconsin private college or university is 17 students
- In 2008-09, the average freshman financial aid package was $18,478. Of that money, 71% was grants which do not have to be repaid.
- In 2007-08, nearly one-third of the people of color who earned a bachelor’s degree in Wisconsin did so at a Wisconsin private college or university.