• 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

• Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate, Liberal Arts

• Listed: Templeton Character Building Colleges

• 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, American Association of Pastoral Counselors

• Undergraduate programs: 38 majors, 36 minors, three pre-professional programs, seven teacher education programs/licensures, three associate degrees, and two one-year certificate programs.

• 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), The Practice 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 more.

• Governance: Board of Trustees and Mennonite Education Agency

• Campus: 93 acres, 44 buildings

• Tuition (per year): $21,860

• Annual budget: $26 million

• Total endowment: $24.2 million

• Medical school acceptance: 85 percent of EMU graduates who applied in the past five years were accepted (compared to a national average of 39 percent). Acceptance rate for all health sciences - veterinary school, dental, etc. - is 89 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 .)

• Faculty: 73 percent hold doctoral and other terminal degrees, 75 percent have lived abroad.

• Student-faculty ratio: 11:1

• Student religious affiliation: approximately 40 groups are represented on campus; Mennonites account for 51 percent of undergraduates, 57 percent of seminary students, 11 percent of other graduate students. (See the campus ministries web pages.)

• Average SAT scores of recent first-year students: 529 verbal, 523 math

• Class rank of recent first-year students: 34 percent in top fifth of high school class

• Racial/ethnic enrollment: 22 percent of all full-time students are from diverse racial, ethnic or international backgrounds.

• Off-campus courses: EMU at Lancaster offers Adult Degree Completion for nurses, M.A. in education, seminary and conflict transformation courses and programs, as well as general education courses. The seminary also offers distance learning courses.

• 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 16,000 total, with nearly 900 living in about 90 foreign countries

• Alumni giving rate: 45 percent

• Men's sports: baseball, basketball, cross-country, soccer, tennis, 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.