SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY COHORT GROUPS
Board of Trustees Cohort Group Strategic Planning Committee Cohort Group Student Enrollment Cohort Group
These are the colleges the Board of Trustees The Strategic Planning Committee identified These are the colleges students most often uses when making comparisons to colleges similar to or with slightly more choose to attend (ordered from highest to Southwestern University. Some of these resources than (aspirational*) Southwestern lowest) instead of accepting a place at institutions have been selected due to in terms of the number of enrolled students, Southwestern University. (since 2018) similarities with Southwestern and others are endowment per student, number of faculty, 1. Trinity University, TX good examples of best practices and standardized test score performance. 2. The University of Texas at Austin, TX (aspirational*) that the Board would like These colleges can be used as a comparison 3. Texas A&M University, TX Southwestern to work towards. (established group for a variety of purposes, including: 4. St. Edward’s University, TX spring 2021) department reviews, IPEDS reporting, and 5. Austin College, TX evaluation of survey results. (established 1. Austin College, TX 6. Baylor University, TX spring 2018) 2. Centre College, KY 7. Texas State University, TX 3. Connecticut College, CT 1. Allegheny College, PA 8. Texas Tech University, TX / Texas 4. Dickinson College, PA* 2. Bates College, ME* Christian University, TX (tie) 5. Franklin & Marshall College, PA* 3. Centre College, KY 9. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, TX 6. Gettysburg College, PA* 4. Hendrix College, AR 10. The University of Texas at Dallas, TX / 7. Kenyon College, OH* 5. Kalamazoo College, MI University of Houston, TX (tie) 8. Lawrence University, WI* 6. Kenyon College, OH*
9. Macalester College, MN* 7. Lawrence University, WI* 10. Occidental College, CA 8. Reed College, OR* 11. Rhodes College, TN 9. Wheaton College, MA 12. Sewanee: The University of the 10. Whitman College, WA* South, TN
13. The College of Wooster, OH 14. Trinity College, CT 15. Trinity University, TX