Excerpt from the Wright State Guardian
As the incoming class of 2025 begins committing to their universities of choice, recent data shows that the majority of Wright State University’s (WSU) top feeder schools are from the Dayton-Miami area. Many students, including transfer students, who commit to WSU say that the affordability and program options are some of their top deciding factors in choosing a university.
In the last three consecutive years, the top ten feeder high schools all come from a region known as Raider Country, a bubble of nearby cities and districts that surround WSU.
“While many international and out-of-state students come to live in and love the Dayton region, most of our students hail from the region we call Raider Country, wanting the convenience of a nearby, accessible university offering countless opportunities to gain hands-on experience with our industry, military, education, health care, and research partners,” Interim Chief Recruitment and Admissions Officer Jen McCamis said in a Board of Trustees meeting earlier this academic year.
In a presentation given at the same Board of Trustees meeting, McCamis stated that 748 first-year students at WSU were scholarship recipients, and 34% of first-year students were Pell Grant recipients.
“Wright State’s work with local K-12 schools and community colleges is extensive and on-going. It is built upon strong and evolving relationships rooted in Wright State’s effort to continually reach out to districts and ask them what their students’ specific needs are of Wright State,” WSU Director of Communications Seth Bauguess said.
The top three colleges within WSU that first-year students study within are the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Engineering & Computer Science and the College of Science & Math.
