• Location: Harrisonburg, Va. (pop. 44,000)
Rockingham County (74,000) Virginia map

• Total enrollment: approximately 1,600

• Founded: 1917. (Read about EMU's history in the 90th anniversary edition of Crossroads.)

• Official magazine: Crossroads

• Accreditation: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education, Council on Social Work Education, Association of Theological Schools, Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs

• Undergraduate programs: 37 majors, 35 minors, two pre-professional programs, four teacher education programs/licensures, and four associate degrees

• Graduate programs: Seminary, Graduate Program in Conflict Transformation, M.A. in Counseling, M.A. in Education, and Master of Business Administration.

• Special programs: Adult Degree Completion Program, Intensive English Program, Summer Peacebuilding Institute, Washington Community Scholars' Center, EMU at Lancaster, Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Practice & Training Institute, Community Learning Center, and more.

• Community services: preparatory music program for children, EMU early learning center, soccer leagues, summer sports camps, and more.

• Cultural programs: Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, D. Ralph Hostetter Museum of Natural History, Writers Read, Teatro Chirmol (a Latino bilingual drama workshop), and much more!

• Governance: Board of Trustees and Mennonite Education Agency

• Campus: 97 acres, 50 buildings

• Tuition and financial aid : Nearly 100% of EMU students receive financial aid. An average assistance package is more than $17,000. That's more than half the cost of tuition.

• Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate, Liberal Arts

• Listed: Templeton Character Building Colleges

• Off-campus courses: EMU at Lancaster offers an RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing program for nurses, M.A. in education and seminary courses and programs, as well as general education courses. The seminary also offers distance learning courses.

• Placement Rate: 91% of EMU grads find work or pursue further education in their field within a year of graduation.

• Medical school acceptance: Over 95% of EMU graduates who apply to medical school are accepted into a program. (The national average is less than 50%.) Acceptance rate for all health sciences - veterinary school, dental, etc. - is 90%.

• Education employment: 99% of teacher education program grads who seek teaching positions are employed within six months of graduation.

• Graduation rate: In 2009 EMU was ranked competitively in a national study of graduation rates by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

• Nursing graduate pass rate: Over 80% of EMU nursing graduates pass their state boards (NCLEX-RN) on the first try.

• Faculty: 73% of faculty hold doctoral and other terminal degrees, and 75% have lived abroad. Two faculty are Fulbright Scholars.

• Student-faculty ratio: 10:1

• Student religious affiliation: approximately 40 groups are represented on campus; Mennonites account for almost half of undergraduates and seminary students.

• Average SAT scores of recent first-year students: 534 verbal, 536 math

• Class rank of recent first-year students: 45 percent in top quarter of high school class

• Racial/ethnic enrollment: 17 percent of all full-time students are from diverse racial, ethnic or international backgrounds.

• Study abroad: EMU cross-cultural courses are offered in locations like the Middle East, Guatemala, Austria, France, Benin, New Zealand, Lithuania, Lesotho, China, Peru, France, Greece, India, Costa Rica, and more.

• Alumni: more than 17,000 total, with nearly 900 living in about 90 foreign countries. EMU graduates stay connected to their values. In a 2008 alumni survey, two-thirds of alumni reported spending some time each month volunteering with their church or a church-related organization, more than 50% volunteer in a non-church-related community organization, and 44% participate in mission and service assignments.

• Alumni giving rate: 28 percent

• Men's sports: baseball, basketball, cross-country, soccer, indoor and outdoor track & field, volleyball.

• Women's sports: basketball, cross-country, field hockey, soccer, softball, indoor and outdoor track & field, volleyball.

• Athletic affiliations: NCAA Division III, Old Dominion Athletic Conference, Northeast Collegiate Volleyball Association.