Texas Wesleyan University
About
Texas Wesleyan University is a private Methodist university in Fort Worth, Texas. It was founded in 1890 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The main campus is located in the Polytechnic Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth. Its mascot is the ram.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 49 Title IV programs, 16 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 32 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing16 · 32.7%
- No Data32 · 65.3%
- Failing1 · 2.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Near the line (±5%)
Programs within five points of the pass line, one cohort year from flipping.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 4
Action history · 9
- Feb 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Dec 2023Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Sep 2023Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- May 2022Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs · Nurse Anesthesia (ANEST) - Institutions and programs at the master's degree, post master's certificate or doctoral degree levels
- Apr 2022Renewal of AccreditationCommission on Collegiate Nursing Education · Nursing (CNURED) - Nursing education programs at the graduate degree levels
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 1,151 students received $6.7M in Pell grants, alongside $20.0M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 752 borrowers who entered repayment, 13 (1.7%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Texas Wesleyan
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 11
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus8
- Non-campus2
Includes 4 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Texas Wesleyan vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Texas Wesleyan selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectTexas Wesleyan University | 32% | — | 2,487 | $19,398 | Doctoral/Professional |
Dallas Baptist University | 58% | 88.8% | 4,124 | $30,092 | Doctoral/Professional |
Houston Christian University | 49% | 84.4% | 4,276 | $19,710 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Oklahoma City University | 65% | 77.0% | 2,966 | $21,556 | Doctoral/Professional |
Our Lady of the Lake University | 46% | 65.8% | 1,968 | $17,760 | Doctoral/Professional |
St. Mary's University | 59% | 97.8% | 3,456 | $21,352 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Union University | 66% | 60.4% | 2,713 | $26,815 | Doctoral/Professional |
University of St Thomas | 69% | 89.9% | 4,301 | $18,762 | Doctoral/Professional |
University of the Incarnate Word | 50% | 98.1% | 7,047 | $20,498 | Doctoral/Professional |
| Peer group median | 58% | 86.6% | 3,456 | $20,498 |
Texas Wesleyan Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
Our mission is to support University goals, objectives and policy by providing information in which the University can use for informed decision making and assist in the process of long-range planning.
Visit IR office page- Sean BrigadierInstitutional Research Director
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Notable alumni of Texas Wesleyan (24)
A curated list of alumni recognized for notable achievements across industries.
- Leta AndrewsAthletics
- Charles R. Bailey
- Robert BundaPolitics
- Joel BurnsPolitics
- Elliott Connie
- Rob Dickerman
- Lonnie GoldsteinAthletics
- David W. GuionMusic
- Mark HazinskiSports
- Talvin HesterAthletics
- Jinxin Wang
- Phil KingPolitics
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