By the numbers

Undergraduate Enrollment	712
In-state Tuition (per semester hour, unless noted)	$309
Out-of-state Tuition (per semester hour, unless noted)	$309
Yearly Room and Board	$3,000-5,000
% of Students on Financial Aid	98
Median ACT	16
% of African American Students	94
% of Asian American Students	0
% of Hispanic Students	4
% of International Students	0
Student/Teacher Ratio	17:1
Number of Full-time Faculty	124
Student Male/Female Ratio	49/51
Greek System?	Yes
% of Students Who Live on Campus?	85
% of Students Who Graduate in Four Years	9
% Who Graduate Overall	24
% of Freshmen Who Return	70
% Of Alumni Who Give $$ to School	5.1

Jarvis Christian University

Team Name:

Bulldogs

Address:

P.O. Box 1470
Hawkins, TX 75765

Web:

jarvis.edu

Phone:

903-769-5700

Undergraduate Enrollment

675

Points of Distinction

Small private liberal arts college with an arts and sciences division that is working to expose the K–12 children of East Texas to the geosciences, specifically astronomy
College-wide worship services
30 clubs, teams, and organizations helping to fulfill the school’s mission of educating the person as a whole

Located on a 243-acre residential campus in Hawkins, Jarvis Christian College promotes a liberal arts education that nurtures intellectual and spiritual development. Students choose from 15 degree plans in the arts and sciences, business, and education. More than 30 clubs, teams, and organizations provide extracurricular diversion. Student athletes compete in basketball, volleyball, baseball, and three other NAIA-level sports.

Hawkins is supportive of Jarvis students, who often volunteer in the community and take part in two annual Hawkins events: Pancake Day and the Oil Festival (a nod to the town’s roots as an oil hub in the 1940s). The school encourages this reciprocal relationship through the Educational Talent Search, a program sponsored by Jarvis’s Division of Education that seeks to identify and nurture potential university students between the ages of 11 and 27, many of whom will be first-generation college applicants.

Conscious of the latest trends in education, the school is working to enhance its programs in the environmental sciences. This expansion is part of the college’s larger campaign to improve its resources and increase the size of the student body from its current enrollment of nearly 700 to 1,000 within the next two years. A recent financial gift, which will be used to build a new dormitory, will help to make campus improvements a reality.