Wartburg College Named A College of Distinction

Wartburg College is one of only six Iowa schools selected as a 2014-15 College of Distinction.

Colleges of Distinction, an online college guide for students, parents and counselors, provides information about top-rated colleges that excel in success of graduates, quality of faculty, atmosphere on campus and student engagement.

At Wartburg, students enjoy a tight-knit community where the student-faculty ratio is 11:1, and classes are predominantly taught by faculty who have earned the highest degree in their discipline.

Wartburg graduates also find success in graduate school — the placement rate is, on average, 95 percent or more — and medical school. Since 2003, the college’s medical school placement rate has averaged 88.5 percent, more than double the national average of 46 percent.

Wartburg also was one of only five colleges to receive the Washington Center’s inaugural Higher Education Civic Engagement Award for service-learning and community engagement.

Besides Wartburg, five other Iowa schools are featured on the College of Distinction list. The others are: Luther College in Decorah, Cornell University in Mount Vernon, Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa Wesleyan in Mount Pleasant and Drake University in Des Moines.

The honor comes with a feature profile of each school on the organization’s website.