Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University (also Wesleyan or OWU) is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Delaware, Ohio.

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Private - Coeducational - Liberal arts college - Delaware, Ohio

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Wesleyan is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, the Oberlin Group and the Five Colleges of Ohio,a consortium of liberal arts colleges in Ohio: Kenyon College, Oberlin College, College of Wooster and Denison University. Students come from about 44 states and about 47 foreign nations.

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Great Lakes Colleges Association - Oberlin Group - Five Colleges of Ohio - Kenyon College - Oberlin College - College of Wooster - Denison University

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Ohio Wesleyan University's charter provides that "the University is forever to be conducted on the most liberal principles"{{ref|liberal}}. Various college publications such as Loren Pope's, Barron's, Princeton Review and the U.S. News and World Report place Wesleyan in the top ranks of private liberal arts colleges in the United States for 2005. Ohio Wesleyan is also among gay-friendly liberal arts colleges in the U.S. actively recruiting students from the LGBT population{{ref|gay-friendly}}.

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Loren Pope - Barron's - Princeton Review - U.S. News and World Report - LGBT

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The student body is approximately 75 percent Caucasian, 10 percent Asian, 6 percent Hispanic, and 9 percent black. The school's newspaper is The Transcript; the yearbook is Le Bijou. The most popular majors at Wesleyan are Economics, Political science, Psychology and English literature.{{ref|popularmajors}}

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Economics - Political science - Psychology - English

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