OWU Accolade
'Fiske Guide to Colleges 2025' Lists Ohio Wesleyan Among 'Best and Most Interesting'
DELAWARE, Ohio – The new "Fiske Guide to Colleges 2025" features Ohio Wesleyan University as one of the "best and most interesting" schools in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, and recognizes OWU for its "big commitment to providing its students with a well-rounded education."
For the annual guidebook, released July 9, Fiske editors selected more than 300 four-year colleges and universities from the three countries to profile for high school students and families involved in the college search process.
In the publication, Fiske also states that Ohio Wesleyan:
- Provides an education that features "strong preparation for graduate and professional school, a solid grounding in the liberal arts, real-world experience, and an emphasis on having fun outside the classroom."
- Enhances student learning through the OWU Connection, "supplementing their major with interdisciplinary learning, global perspectives, service learning, and practical experiences; students may fulfill these expectations by choosing from a number of pathways, such as special courses, study abroad, internships, and independent projects."
- Serves students with a new general education curriculum that shifts "the focus from discipline-based requirements to capability-based courses and includes a problem-solving first-year seminar focusing on a complex global challenge."
- Provides access to a Career Connection office that "guides students from every major and helps them to secure internships across the country."
The guidebook also calls out Ohio Wesleyan's "spacious 200-acre campus," "significant expansion of campus housing," "powerhouse" Battling Bishop varsity athletics program, and small class sizes "with 65 percent enrolling fewer than 20 students."
To identify its "best and most interesting schools," Fiske editors use sources including questionnaires and interviews with students asking them about academics, campus setting, financial aid, social life, and more. The book was created by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske.
For information about enrolling at Ohio Wesleyan, visit www.owu.edu/admission.
Founded in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the nation's premier liberal arts universities. Located in Delaware, Ohio, the private university offers more than 70 undergraduate majors and competes in 24 NCAA Division III varsity sports. Through its signature experience, the OWU Connection, Ohio Wesleyan teaches students to understand issues from multiple academic perspectives, volunteer in service to others, build a diverse and global perspective, and translate classroom knowledge into real-world experience through internships, research, and other hands-on learning. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book "Colleges That Change Lives" and included on the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review "Best Colleges" lists. Connect with OWU expert interview sources at owu.edu/experts or learn more at owu.edu.