As part of the formation of our Academic Strategic Action Plan, consultants identified a set of institutions comparable to Seattle University in a number of dimensions including being private masters comprehensive universities and having similar missions, levels of student selectivity, student population sizes, endowments, and so forth. From this large list of statistically similar universities, eleven institutions were selected as a comparison peer set that best reflects how we envision Seattle University.
Peer institutions provide benchmark comparisons that are essential to the university's assessment strategies and are used as one component in determining the relative health, growth and trajectory of the university.
