Indiana Wesleyan University didn’t start a football team just to boost male enrollment, but it was a factor.
The evangelical college is also starting an engineering program with the same issue in mind.
“Not that engineering is only for male students, but we know historically schools that have engineering draw a higher percentage of male students,” said Chad Peters, the vice president of enrollment management and marketing at IWU.
As evangelical colleges and universities across the country worry about overall enrollment declines, many schools are especially worried about “missing men.”
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