AN OVERVIEW OF JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY

• University Heights, Ohio, 10 miles east of downtown Cleveland.

• Private, Jesuit Catholic university; one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the U.S.

• Founded in 1886 as St. Ignatius College.
• Renamed in 1923 and moved to its present location about a decade later.
• Became coeducational in 1968.

• 3,800 students; 82 percent are undergraduates.
• 96 percent of undergraduate students attend full-time.
• 69 percent of graduate students attend part-time.

• 71 percent of students are from Ohio.
• 25 percent of students are from the surrounding Great Lakes region.**
• 68 percent of students are Catholic.
• 9 percent of students are minorities.
• 539 full-time and 197 part-time employees.

• Operating budget: $105 million.
• Total payroll: $37 million.
• Endowment: $179 million.
• John Carroll University has invested nearly $150 million since 1998 to build or renovate facilities.