Consumer Information

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Ouachita Baptist University
IT Services - Web
OBU Box 3794
Arkadelphia, AR 71998
[email protected]

Since 2019, over 82% of all first-time, full-time residential freshman students returned to Ouachita for their sophomore year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.

Over the past four reporting periods, the U.S. Department of Education’s IPEDS Graduation Rate data indicate that an average of 66% of first-time full-time freshman students at Ouachita graduate within six years.

Career outcomes data is collected using the First-Destination Survey, which meets the guidelines of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

On average, 99% of Ouachita graduates who completed the First-Destination Survey reported a positive career outcome within six months of graduation.

The Career Outcomes Rate represents the percentage of graduates with a known positive career outcome, such as full-time employment, enrollment in a graduate program, or military service. The Knowledge Rate represents the percentage of graduates for whom outcomes are known.

The 2022 Arkansas Department of Education’s Educator Preparation Provider Quality Report for Ouachita Baptist University includes rates for Ouachita teacher education candidates who took the PRAXIS licensure exams in 2022. The pass rate was 100%.

• Right to and procedures for inspecting and reviewing student’s education records
• Right to and procedures for requesting amendment of student’s education records
• Right to consent to disclosure of personally identifiable information contained in student’s education records
• Right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education
• Right to obtain a copy of the student records policy as it relates to FERPA

Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Handbook, Student Services office, Registrar’s office

• Description of all available federal, state, local, private, and institutional financial need-based and non-need-based assistance programs, and for each program a description of:
  • Application form and procedures – Student eligibility requirements
  • Selection criteria – Criteria for determining the amount of a student’s award
• Rights and responsibilities of student receiving Title IV and other financial aid
  • Criteria for continued eligibility
  • Satisfactory academic progress standards and criteria to re-establish eligibility if student fails to maintain satisfactory academic progress
  • Methods and frequency of financial aid disbursements
  • Terms of any loans received, sample loan repayment schedules, and the necessity for repaying loans – General conditions and terms applicable to any employment offered as part of student’s financial aid award

Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Financial Services office

Summary of Disclosures (As required by the Higher Education Act, 1998 Amendments)

• Criteria for continued eligibility
• Satisfactory academic progress standards and criteria to re-establish eligibility if student fails to maintain satisfactory academic progress
• Methods and frequency of financial aid disbursements
• Terms of any loans received, sample loan repayment schedules, and the necessity for repaying loans
• General conditions and terms applicable to any employment offered as part of student’s financial aid award
• Exit counseling information required to be provided for and to be collected from student borrowers

Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Financial Services office

• Cost of attending the University Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Financial Services office
• Refund policies Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Financial Services office
• Requirements for officially withdrawing from the University Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Handbook, Student Services office
• Summary of requirements for the return of Title IV grant or loan assistance by withdrawn students Source of information: Academic Catalog, Student Financial Services office
• Information regarding the University’s academic programs Source of information: Academic Catalog, Vice President for Academic Affairs office
• Entities that accredit, license, or approve the University and its programs and procedures for reviewing the University’s accreditation, licensing, or approval documentation Source of information: Academic Catalog, President’s office
• Description of any special services and facilities for disabled students Source of information: Student Support Services office, Student Services office
• Title and availability of employee(s) responsible for dissemination of institutional and financial assistance disclosure information and how to contact them

Source of information: Director of Student Financial Services, available during regular office hours, e-mail [email protected]

• Statement that enrollment in a study abroad program approved for credit may be considered enrollment at the school for the purpose of applying for Title IV assistance

Source of information: International Studies Program website/Student Financial Services

Completion or graduation rate of cohort of certificate- or degree-seeking, full-time undergraduates who graduated or completed their program within 150% of the normal time for graduation or completion

Source of information: Academic Catalog, Registrar’s office, Compliance Office

• Statistics for three most recent calendar years concerning the occurrence on campus, in or on non-campus buildings or property, and public property of certain offenses reported to campus security authority or local police
• Policies regarding procedures to report crimes committed on campus, criminal actions or other emergencies, and the University’s response to such
• Policies concerning the security of and access to campus facilities
• Policies concerning campus law enforcement

Source of information: Student Development

• Number of male and female full-time undergraduates
• Statistics regarding varsity teams that compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions
• Unduplicated number of students, by gender, who participated on at least one varsity team as of the date of the first scheduled contest
• Institutional revenues derived from and attributable to the University’s intercollegiate athletic programs
• Incurred expenses attributable to the University’s intercollegiate athletic programs
• Total spent on athletics-related student aid awarded to men and to women
• Aggregate total recruiting expenses for men’s teams and for women’s teams
• Average annual institutional salary of non-volunteer coaches and assistant coaches (across all sports) of all men’s and women’s teams on a per person and per full-time basis

Source of information: Director of Athletics

• Number of students, by race and gender, who attended the school during the prior year
• Number of students, by race and gender within each sport, who attended the school during the prior year and received athletics-related student aid
• Completion or graduation rate, by race and gender, of cohort of certificate- or degree-seeking, full-time undergraduates who graduated or completed their program within 150% of the normal time for graduation or completion
• Completion or graduation rate, by race and gender within each sport, of cohort of certificate- or degree-seeking, fulltime undergraduates who received athletics-related student aid and graduated or completed their program within 150% of the normal time for graduation or completion
• Average completion or graduation rate, by race and gender, for the four most recent graduating classes of certificate- or degree-seeking, full-time undergraduates who graduated or completed their program within 150% of the normal time for graduation or completion
• Average completion or graduation rate, by race and gender within each sport, for the four most recent graduating classes of certificate- or degree-seeking, full-time undergraduates who received athletics-related student aid and graduated or completed their program within 150% of the normal time for graduation or completion

Source of information: Director of Athletics

All Ouachita Baptist University students, faculty and staff are required to complete Title IX training each year, with Title IX Coordinators, investigators, decision-makers and informal resolution process facilitators receiving additional specialized training. View this year’s training programs at: http://www.trainedsolutions.com/portfolio-item/title-ix-update-final-regulations/.

For additional questions or concerns related to Title IX, see the “Questions, Concerns and Complaints” information below.