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Ohio Wesleyan is a small, private liberal arts college situated in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 and currently enrolls about 1850 undergraduate students. Students come from about 42 states and about 50 foreign nations.

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-Ohio Wesleyan University (Wesleyan) is a small, private liberal arts college situated in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 and currently enrolls about 1850 undergraduate students. Students come from about 42 states and about 50 foreign nations.
+Ohio Wesleyan is a small, private liberal arts college situated in Delaware, Ohio. It was founded in 1842 and currently enrolls about 1850 undergraduate students. Students come from about 42 states and about 50 foreign nations.
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-Some distinguishing features
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-== '''History''' ==
-Founded by Methodists in 1842, Wesleyan (OH) is now an independent institution and is recognized nationally for welcoming students from all religious faiths. Named for John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, Ohio Wesleyan University is among the oldest of the numerous originally Methodist institutions of higher education in the United States. The Methodist movement originated in England in the 1720s, and was particularly important for its early emphasis on social service and education. From its inception, Ohio Wesleyan University offered a liberal arts program rather than theological training to its students. Ties to the Methodist church, which were particularly strong in the earliest years and from the 1870s to the 1890s, waxed and waned throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The college was known early in its history as the "West Point of Missions" because of the number of graduates who served abroad as missionaries; Ohio Wesleyan later was recognized for the number of alumni who served as Peace Corps volunteers. Today, that same commitment to serving society manifests itself in the activities of Wesleyan's students, an extraordinary percentage of whom participate in volunteer initiatives. A genuine sense of service permeates the Wesleyan campus.
-In addition, Ohio Wesleyan University has a very distinguished history. In 1906, it stood first among all colleges in the number of alumni doing graduate work at Harvard. According to a study by the National Research Council in the 1970s, updated in 1980, Ohio Wesleyan ranked 17th among America's 867 four-year, private, primarily undergraduate institutions on the number of alumni in all fields who earned PhDs in the years since 1920. A similar study in 1982 by Standard and Poor's Corporation ranked the same 867 institutions on producing U.S. business leaders from among their undergraduates. In that survey, Ohio Wesleyan ranked 15th. A 1986 study, titled "Educating America's Scientists: The Role of the Research Universitys," identified Ohio Wesleyan as one of 48 highly selective "science-active" liberal arts institutions in the nation. F. Sherwood Rowland '48 is the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
-Originally imagined as "the Harvard of the Midwest", Ohio's Wesleyan University has become one of the nation's pre-eminent institutions of the liberal arts and sciences.
-== '''Some distinguishing features''' ==
-Wesleyan University (OH) is one of the more unusual institutions of higher learning in the United States. It features a traditional liberal arts curriculum, requiring freshmen to take an intensive introduction to the Classics--ancient Greece and Rome, combined in the course known as Humanities 110, or just Hum 110 as most students refer to it and/or ENG105 Writing Seminar.
-Ohio Wesleyan is a haven for intense intellectuals and idealists, who often appear to outsiders as unkempt hippies. Ohio Wesleyan has a reputation for making room for students who show promise of one sort or another but who did not do so well in high school, though its overall admissions standards are high. This encourages the blossoming of many scholars inspired by the extremely intense academic experience, but also leads to some attrition even though the five-year graduation rate exceeds the national average. The class of 2008's average SAT score is above 1230 and average GPA was 3.5. Ohio's Wesleyan University holds a well-earned reputation for the anti-authoritarian leanings of its students (and sometimes its faculty).