• Location: Harrisonburg, Va. (pop. 42,700)
Rockingham County (70,000) 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, M.A. 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, Seminars on Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), Inter-cultural Communicative Competence (IC3), Practice & Training Institute, Community Learning Center, and Learning, Exploring and Participating (LEAP), 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 (per year): $24,120 (98% of EMU students received financial aid for the 2008-09 year. Learn more about our financial aid)

• Total endowment: $21.6 million

• 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: EMU's three-year average placement rate of graduates is 99%, with a whopping 90% of graduates employed within their own field of study within one year of graduation! In 2007, 100% of graduates were placed within that time.*

• Medical school acceptance: Between 2002 and 2006, over 95 percent of EMU graduates who applied to medical school were accepted into a program. In 2006, 100 percent of students were accepted, well over that year's national rate of 46 percent.

Acceptance rate for all health sciences - veterinary school, dental, etc. - was 88 percent in 2006. The five-year average was 94 percent. (See the pre-professional health sciences web pages.)

• Education employment: during the past five years 95 percent of teachers (some years, more) were employed upon graduation. (Read more in the education issue of Crossroads, EMU's alumni magazine .)

• EMU's six-year graduation rate (a common benchmark for measuring the success of students) is much higher than that of other private colleges in the southeast. 71% of EMU first-year students graduate within six years; the national average graduation rate is 53% and the Virignia state average is 56.7. The corresponding rate among private colleges in the southeast was 49% in 2007.* In 2009 EMU tied with two other schools for fifth place in the regional "very competitive" category in a study of graduation rates nationwide by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.

• Nursing graduate pass rate: In Fall 2007, 88 percent of EMU nursing graduates passed their state boards (NCLEX-RN) on the first try, beating the national average of 86 percent.

• Faculty: 65 percent hold doctoral and other terminal degrees, 75 percent have lived abroad.

• Student-faculty ratio: 10:1

• Student religious affiliation: approximately 40 groups are represented on campus; Mennonites account for 53 percent of undergraduates, 51 percent of seminary students, 23 percent of other graduate 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

• 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.