Check out why Utah State University received a B- grade in our Report Card below.
Utah State University is a Land-grant, public research university located in Logan, Utah with an undergraduate size of 24,647. The university is located within the Logan metropolitan area, which, according to the university&#8217;s &#8220;Fast Facts&#8221; <a href="https://www.usu.edu/about/fast-facts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a>, &#8220;has been named the top small city in the United States by the 2022 Milken Institute Best Performing Cities (BPC) analysis for its economic vitality, which emphasizes jobs, wages, and high-tech growth while incorporating housing affordability and household broad-band access. (March 2022)&#8221; The &#8220;Fast Facts&#8221; page also states that Logan is located &#8220;81 miles northeast of Salt Lake City,&#8221; &#8220;five hours south of Yellowstone Park,&#8221; and a two minute drive away to Logan Canyon. The university&#8217;s official mascot is the bull &#8220;Big Blue&#8221;, and its athletic teams are known as the Aggies due to the university&#8217;s prior history as an agricultural college.
Utah State University &#8220;offers more than 200 undergraduate, graduate and professional study across nine degree-granting colleges.&#8221; Notable former students include NFL player Bobby Wagner, COO of Crumbl cookies Sawyer Hemsley, and professional basketball player Jaycee Carroll.

Utah State University receives a &#8220;D&#8221; grade by <a href="https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/2719" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Will They Learn?</a> which takes into account the university’s educational prowess. Factors include composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics, and natural science.
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What Will They Learn? Academic Score

Utah State University receives a &#8220;C&#8221; grade for Average Salary of Recent Graduates. As of 2021, alumni with 0-5 years of experience after graduating from Utah State University with a bachelor’s degree make $56,500 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors?search=Utah%20State%20University" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale. </a>
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Average Salary of Recent Graduates 

Utah State University receives a “C” grade for the Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career. As of 2021, alumni with 10+ years of experience after graduating from Utah State University with a bachelor’s degree make $100,400 on average according to <a href="https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/bachelors?search=Utah%20State%20University" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payscale.</a>
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Average Salary of Graduates Mid-Career

Utah State University receives a &#8220;B+&#8221; grade for Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private). In 2020, 43% of graduates accumulated student debt from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a>.
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Percent of Graduates with Debt (Federal and Private)

Utah State University receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private).  In 2020, graduates accumulated $21,529 of debt on average from federal and/or private sources according to <a href="https://ticas.org/interactive-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Institute for College Access &amp; Success</a>.
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Average Debt of Graduates (Federal and Private)

Utah State University receives an &#8220;F&#8221; grade for Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff. Utah State University requires&#8221;full-time and some part-time employees&#8221; to take Title IX training through &#8220;<a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://www.usu.edu/equity/trainings/employee-prevention" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the office of equity.</a>&#8221; The university also encourages employees to take <a class="waffle-rich-text-link" href="https://www.usu.edu/equity/trainings/additional-training" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity-related trainings</a>  such as Inclusion and Implicit Bias, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility.
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Mandated Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Training for Staff

Utah State University receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for not having a Bias Reporting System or Bias Response Team. Bias Reporting Systems and Response Teams are systems or teams of faculty, staff, and sometimes law enforcement.
According to <a href="https://speechfirst.org/bias-reporting-systems/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SpeechFirst</a>, students are “encouraged to report ‘bias incidents’ to these boards (or teams) in the name of inclusion and tolerance, but it’s often unclear what the school considers ‘bias’ in the first place. Overly broad or vague definitions of bias put all kinds of speech at risk of being reported – even unpopular speech which is protected by the First Amendment.”
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Bias Reporting System or Bias Response Team

Utah State University receives an &#8220;A+&#8221; grade for Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs. Out of a list of 20 clubs (10 from each side), the <a href="https://www.usu.edu/involvement/clubs/club-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university</a> has three right-leaning clubs compared to one left-leaning club. The three right-leaning clubs are the College Libertarians Club, Students for Life, and Turning Point USA. The one left-leaning club is Students United for Reproductive Freedom.
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Ratio of Right-Leaning Clubs to Left-Leaning Clubs

Utah State University receives an “A” grade due to having an active and thriving <a href="https://www.usu.edu/involvement/clubs/club-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Turning Point USA chapter</a>. Unfortunately, universities and Student Governments around the country often use their power to prevent certain clubs from operating on campus.
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Denied Turning Point USA Chapter

Utah State University receives a &#8220;D&#8221; grade for In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants. The university bases its tuition <a href="https://www.usu.edu/financial-support/undocumented-student-resources" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy</a> for undocumented students on the Utah House Bill 144:
&#8220;HB 144 is a House Bill that was passed in 2002, in the state of Utah that allows qualifying undocumented students to pay in-state tuition if he or she attends a Utah college or university. This means that even though a student does not have residency status, they may attend Utah State University at the resident tuition rate.&#8221;
The university states the following requirements for students to qualify for HB 144:
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<li>&#8220;Student must have attended a UTAH high school for three (3) or more consecutive years.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Student must have graduated from a UTAH high school with a diploma or G.E.D.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Student must NOT be registered as an entering student at a Utah college or university before the fall semester 2002.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Student must have filed an application to legalize his or her immigration status or will file an application as soon as he or she is eligible.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
Utah State University also states that &#8220;If [a student] meet[s] all the requirements of HB 144, you may be eligible for the lower resident tuition rate.&#8221;
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In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants

Utah State University receives an “A-” grade for the Amount of Foreign Funding Received. According to <a href="https://sites.ed.gov/foreigngifts/">College Foreign Gift Reporting</a>, the total amount of foreign funding the university has received is $208.08 per current undergraduate student. Oftentimes, foreign parties will convey their influence by funding certain courses, activities, professors, and organizations on campus. In certain cases, universities must abide by restrictions dictated by foreign parties to receive funding. In addition, there have been <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-universities-took-billions-in-unreported-foreign-funds-u-s-finds-11603226953">reports</a> that claim that universities underreport foreign funding. The figure above only takes into account reported foreign funding.
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Amount of Foreign Funding Received

Utah State University receives an &#8220;A&#8221; grade for not having Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students.
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Required Equity, Diversity, or Inclusion Courses for Students.

Utah State University receives a &#8220;B&#8221; grade for Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes. The university has one segregated graduation (<a href="https://www.usu.edu/latinx/events/graduation-celebration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Latinx Graduation Celebration</a>).
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Segregated Dormitories, Graduations, and Classes

Utah State University receives an “A” grade for Protests and Canceling Speakers. Since 2o21, no instances of protests, speech cancelations, or violence/attempted violence against speakers have occurred.
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Protests and Canceling Speakers

Utah State University receives a “C” grade for Mask and Vaccine Mandates. According to the university&#8217;s <a href="https://www.usu.edu/covid-19/testing/vaccine#:~:text=USU%20strongly%20recommends%20the%20COVID,are%20able%20to%20be%20vaccinated." target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19 page</a>, &#8220;USU strongly recommends the COVID-19 vaccine and boosters for all who are able to be vaccinated.&#8221;
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Masks and Vaccine Mandates

Utah State University receives a “D+” grade for the Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees. According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Center (<a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IPEDS</a>), as of 2020, 3.75% of the current undergraduate student population graduate with a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) degree. Across the United States, students who graduate with STEM degrees tend to earn more on average than their other student counterparts.
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Percent of Students Graduating with STEM Degrees

Utah State University receives a “A-” grade for Crime Rates in University City or Town. According to the <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a>, the Tempe, Arizona violent crime rate was 135.90 per 100,000 people in 2018,lower than the 2018 national average of 380.56 per 100,000 people. While campus safety is of utmost importance, it is also pertinent to consider the crime rates of the surrounding town or city as students often tend to venture off campus, especially after their freshman year.
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Crime Rates in University City or Town 

Utah State University receives an “A” grade for Required Western Civilization Courses for Students. Students are <a href="https://catalog.usu.edu/content.php?catoid=35&amp;navoid=26613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required</a> to take one course in &#8220;Breadth American Institutions (BAI)&#8221; all of which have relevant courses to western civilization such as &#8220;Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, &#8221; &#8220;American History,&#8221; and U.S. Institutions&#8221; among other American history and government courses.
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Required Western Civilization Courses for Students

Check out why Utah State University received a B- grade in our Report Card below.

Utah State University is a Land-grant, public research university located in Logan, Utah with an undergraduate size of 24,647. The university is located within the Logan metropolitan area, which, according to the university's "Fast Facts" <a href="https://www.usu.edu/about/fast-facts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a>, "has been named the top small city in the United States by the 2022 Milken Institute Best Performing Cities (BPC) analysis for its economic vitality, which emphasizes jobs, wages, and high-tech growth while incorporating housing affordability and household broad-band access. (March 2022)" The "Fast Facts" page also states that Logan is located "81 miles northeast of Salt Lake City," "five hours south of Yellowstone Park," and a two minute drive away to Logan Canyon. The university's official mascot is the bull "Big Blue", and its athletic teams are known as the Aggies due to the university's prior history as an agricultural college.

Utah State University "offers more than 200 undergraduate, graduate and professional study across nine degree-granting colleges." Notable former students include NFL player Bobby Wagner, COO of Crumbl cookies Sawyer Hemsley, and professional basketball player Jaycee Carroll.

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