College is a four-year path filled with opportunity. But to make the most of it, you’ll need to navigate it well. At Tiffin University, our unique pathway approach provides a map to guide you at every stage of your college journey. Intentionally designed around your interests and goals, your unique pathway leads you through a wide range of learning experiences, both inside and outside the classroom, preparing you in every way to become the capable, confident, well-rounded person you aspire to be. Planned and purposeful, practical and engaging, this is your path to a full college experience and a fulfilling career – all according to plan. YOUR DRAGON PATHWAY –THIS IS YOUR PATH TO ANYWHERE.
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Your Dragon Pathway is a highly individualized success plan that focuses on academics as well as every aspect of your college experience. You’ll work with faculty and advisors to clarify your major – setting you onto the right path. You’ll select courses that match your interests and goals –less requirements, more major-related study. You’ll engage in professional learning – experiences that align with your classroom learning, such as hands-on projects, internships, research and more. You’ll take an active role in campus life – choosing opportunities that will help you to develop personally and professionally. Following a clear, four-year path toward your chosen career, you’ll be exceptionally prepared. You’ll be supremely confident. You’ll be ready to hit the ground running, day one.
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WHAT AWAITS YOU ON YOUR DRAGON PATHWAY?
A Clear, Detailed Plan
Your Dragon Pathway will provide clarity and structure to help you maximize your college experience and stay on course to graduation.
A Program Guide
Your pathway will detail a term-by-term sequence of academic courses, all planned around your specific goals and interests.
Prepared to the Core – The Dragon Education Core (DEC) Curriculum spans four years and will equip you with essential 21st-century competencies – the ability to think critically, communicate clearly, work collaboratively and apply problem-solving skills.
As Real as It Gets TU offers more than 50 degree-granting programs – each focused on the practical work in your field, each taught via an immersive, hands-on study led by professors who bring real-world experience.
Advice Along the Way
Advisors and mentors will meet with you each semester to review your objectives, assess your progress and explore opportunities with you.
Hands-on Learning
You’ll acquire competencies through hands-on activities outside the classroom that align with, and elevate, lessons learned in your curriculum.
Alert to Your Needs
Our early alert system is a way to identify and reach out if at any time you struggle to keep up in your classes, so we can help you get back on track.
ACTIVE LEARNING.
AN IMMERSIVE APPROACH.
Is there any better way to learn than to learn by doing? As one of our students recently commented, “I remember and grasp things better when I’m more involved.” And it’s true. Textbooks are an invaluable part of any education, but it is when lessons are applied that learning truly takes off. It’s why, from day one, hands-on learning is an integral part of a Tiffin University education. Active engagement – it makes learning more interesting. It makes learning more real. It makes learning more fun.
Beyond the Textbook
At TU, hands-on learning takes many forms: immersive classroom activities, group projects, labs, research, internships, professional projects, field trips, community service and more.
Professors With Experience
TU professors know of what they speak. Our faculty bring years of industry experience, enriching learning by sharing real-life stories of how theory is actually applied in the real world.
Where Learning Takes Off
Tiffin University’s Drone Academy gives students the knowledge, tools and firsthand experience they need to become successful drone professionals. The only one of its kind in the state, the Drone Academy is where students can learn and get FAA-certified in how to operate and use drones in a variety of industry environments.
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Project Pitch is a semesterlong program designed for student entrepreneurs, teaching them how to professionally bring their innovative ideas to reality. From ideation and product
discover yourself as well.
Professional Advisor
Your Professional Advisor will assist you with researching your majors of interest, then help you develop a unique plan of study. Throughout your four years together, you’ll review academic courses, explore professional learning opportunities and identify relevant campus activities in which to participate. Each semester, you’ll review your progress and modify your Dragon Pathway as needed.
Faculty Advisor
Your Faculty Advisor, typically a professor from your major, will serve as a personal mentor, helping you to pursue your academic and career goals. Drawing on years of industry experience and professional connections, your Faculty Advisor will provide a real-world perspective and counsel, while helping you explore experiential learning opportunities, including internships, job shadowing, networking as well as graduate and professional school preparation.
Attentive Professors
TU faculty work one-onone with their students –here, there are no teaching assistants. If you have questions, you’ll work directly with your professor, a knowledgeable and experienced expert in the field. You’ll form meaningful connections, which will lead to more engaged learning and often to professional learning and employment opportunities.
Career Services
TU’s Career Services offers practical programs to help you along your pathway in preparation for a successful career. Working side-by-side with TU’s career professionals, you’ll write effective resumes. You’ll sharpen your interviewing skills. You’ll learn about professional dress and business etiquette. You’ll hone your internship and job search strategies. You’ll become skilled and confident, and ready for success.
Advising Never Stops
Advising doesn’t end when you graduate from TU. Relationships with each of your advisors during your four years here are lasting – they are truly lifelong. With the close bonds formed, as a graduate you’ll feel comfortable reaching out and asking for advice long after you graduate. Your personalized Dragon Pathway is one that never stops.
CAREER-READY SKILLS.
AT THE CORE OF TU.
The Dragon Education Core (DEC) is a series of core classes designed to give students the foundational knowledge, skills and professional attributes to be successful not only in college, but also in life. Beginning in freshman year and continuing through senior year, DEC equips TU students with the interpersonal skills, life skills and cultural competencies needed to be an innovative contributor and leader in the 21st-century workplace.
DEC SKILLS FOR SUCCESS
Communication
Whether speaking or writing, effective communicators are able to present information clearly, concisely and accurately so that others can understand.
Critical Thinking
Critical thinkers are problem solvers who are able to analyze situations, gather information, weigh options and make informed, reasonable decisions.
Leadership
Leadership skills include the abilities and strengths that help in influencing, guiding and encouraging a group of people toward achieving a common goal.
Teamwork
Teamwork involves having a collaborative spirit, being open to working with others effectively and playing to other individuals’ strengths.
Technology
Technology has become a part of almost every industry, and it is essential today to adapt to emerging technologies in order to work efficiently and effectively.
Cultural Understanding TU’s Celebrating Cultural Uniqueness (CCU@TU) equips students to effectively and empathetically navigate culturally unique points of view.
Career and Self Development
Successful people are aware of their own strengths and areas for development, and proactively pursue opportunities for growth.
Professionalism
Professional success encompasses not just specialized knowledge and technical skills, but also personal qualities that help you perform at your highest level.
COMMUNICATION. CRITICAL THINKING. LEADERSHIP. TEAMWORK. TECHNOLOGY. CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING. CAREER AND SELF DEVELOPMENT. PROFESSIONALISM.
Everywhere, Engagement
TU business students often work on projects for businesses in the local community. Forensic science students visit a body farm to view an actual autopsy. Creative arts majors record original music in our campus studio, then market and distribute it. Science majors collaborate with professors on original, high-level research projects. And on and on it goes.
Real-World Internships
Nearly every TU student will participate in at least one professional internship before they graduate. It’s an opportunity to put into practice – in a reallife, professional work setting –lessons and theory learned in the classroom. The opportunity to view firsthand your chosen profession, and to engage in substantive work in your field, is an invaluable learning experience and an integral part of a TU education.
Hot on the Trail: Cold Case
As part of the Cold Case Fellowship Program, students work cold cases – real-life criminal investigations that have yet to be solved. Supported by an experienced faculty, students travel to crime locations, examine files, develop leads and make recommendations for further investigation – all while developing critical thinking and teamwork skills in a cold case environment.
Excellence Down to a Science
The Center for Science and Technology –better known around here as the “STEAM” building – is a state-of-the-art science center where students have access to cutting-edge equipment and technology. Here, you’ll engage in hands-on laboratory exercises, using highlevel instrumentation that at other universities is normally reserved for graduate students.
Certified for Success
The opportunity to earn industry certifications is a unique advantage of a TU education. A certified credential from a third party validates a higher level of learning. Adding a professional certification to your college degree will help you to stand out as a more experienced, more prepared job prospect in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
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Cyber Defense & Forensics
The Tiffin University Center for Cyber Defense & Forensics is designated as a DHS and NSA Center of Academic Excellence. The Center provides students the unique opportunity to perform security and vulnerability assessments for businesses; run data recovery plans; participate in hack-a-thons; conduct impactful research and complete internships with the FBI, NSA, Fortune 500 companies and more.
TiffinArts
Whatever your passion in the arts, you’ll have the opportunity to immerse in it as part of our TiffinArts program. TU provides an innovative and highly experiential education that, from day one, engages singers, instrumentalists, producers, actors, dancers, artists, writers and media creatives. Other institutions talk about experiential learning; our artists live it at TU, preparing them in every way to become confident working professionals in the arts.
Professional Research
TU students have many opportunities to engage in research. As any professional researcher, you’ll apply the scientific method: Identify a problem, conduct research and form a hypothesis. You’ll test the hypothesis through observation, experimentation and analysis. You’ll draw a conclusion and present your findings, quite possibly at a professional conference. You’ll develop valuable skills. You’ll build an impressive resume.
A Winning Program
Sports management students at TU learn by doing, as they have access to unmatched hands-on learning opportunities. Shown here are students who have interned with the Paris Olympics, Cincinnati Reds, NCAA Women’s Final Four, Above the Rest Basketball and Mohawk Golf & Country Club. Our students experience firsthand the reallife logistics, management and execution involved in the world of sport.
A Global Education
TU is committed to helping students attain a wider view of the world. It’s evidenced in our partnership with American Institute of Applied Sciences in Switzerland (AUS), allowing AUS students to obtain a dual degree at the undergraduate and graduate level from both institutions. It’s seen in our status as the only university in Romania offering an internationally accredited program in Bachelor of Business Administration. It’s a global focus that distinguishes our institution, and every TU student.
THE INNOVATIVE PAL
TU’s Performing Arts Lab (The PAL) features a professional recording studio; keyboard and production lab; and large rehearsal spaces for TU bands, choirs, dance teams and commercial ensembles. The 14,000-square-foot, professionalquality laboratory serves TU students involved in our more than 20 extracurricular music ensembles and our cutting-edge commercial music degrees.
D.C. Bound
TU students can spend a summer or semester interning in our nation’s capital as part of The Washington Center experience. Students benefit from a substantive, professional experience, while immersing in the dynamic Washington D.C. culture. Students have interned at The White House, the U.S. State Department, Homeland Security, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and more.
Pioneering AI
The Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Center at TU is where innovation meets education. Our center is dedicated to advancing the fields of AI and data science, by fostering a deep understanding of the principles, methodologies and technologies unique to these cutting-edge fields. AI and data science students can pursue a range of professional certificates designed to enhance their skills and boost their career prospects.
A Classroom-Centered Education
TU Education students learn in the best way possible, by being in the classroom. Beginning their first semester, they are observing actual classrooms. Then, they will work in classrooms nearly every semester until they wrap up with a 75-day experience where they run a classroom themselves on a day-to-day basis.
Crime Scene House
Criminal Justice students acquire career-ready skills in our Criminal Justice Experiential Learning Center (ELC), also known as our Crime Scene House. With staged crime scenes – complete with dummy victims and perhaps fake guns, drugs, blood splatters – students acquire hands-on experience in crime scene investigations, interviews and interrogations, evidence processing, report writing and more. Students leave TU having already practiced many of the skills they’ll learn in the police academy and on the job.
THIS IS FAMILY.
You feel it as soon as you set foot on campus. There’s a warmth, a welcoming spirit, a sense of belonging that very much feels like home. At TU, we are a diverse and inclusive campus community. And it is in this atmosphere of acceptance that we so easily join together in a very active campus life, filled with friends, activities and opportunities – and a whole lot of fun!
Home Safe Home: The City of Tiffin, located in the heart of Ohio, is ranked by Safewise as one of the safest college communities in the nation.
A Place to Belong: TU is an exceptionally closeknit and welcoming community, where you’ll feel an immediate sense of belonging.
Welcome All: Our Celebrating Cultural Uniqueness (CCU@TU) initiative is our commitment to make TU a place where every student has a voice, can feel free to be themselves, be valued and can celebrate their culture and their uniqueness on campus every day.
First-Generation Dragons: With over 30% of students being the first in their families to attend college, TU provides activities and resources to fully support first-generation students.
Jump In! On such an active and welcoming campus, getting involved and meeting others happens easily and naturally.
Our Hometown: of Tiffin is a small, quaint downtown with big offerings such as Bailiwicks Coffee Company, Clover Club, Madison Street Tavern, Reino’s Pizza & Pasta and more!
Join the Club: With more than 40 student clubs, you’ll find a group that shares your interests. If not, we’ll help you start one!
Greek Life: Two fraternities and three sororities add a variety of community service and campus activities and events to TU’s active student life.
Living at TU: TU students are required to live on campus through their junior year, which makes for both a close-knit, family environment plus a more active campus life. This family-style approach to housing creates a home away from home, where you can live, learn and grow in a comfortable, welcoming environment of true community.
Street Pub & Grille to Dragon Brew (we serve Starbucks!), TU students have wide-ranging and delicious food choices.
Student-Run, StudentThe Campus Activities Board (CAB) is a student organization that provides a wide variety of fun and engaging programming – for students, by students.
Non-Stop Fun: TU students enjoy a campus life calendar filled with activities and events, including Spring Fest, Color Fun Run, Movie Nights, Spa Day, Pizza Parties, Spring Chill Day, concerts, arts performances and lots more!
GO GONS!
Our Competition:
TU is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II as well as a full member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC).
Club and Rec Sports:
TU students participate in recreational sports such as basketball, ultimate frisbee and dodgeball as well as club sports such as bowling, men’s volleyball and rugby.
A Winning Tradition: TU Dragons have a proud winning tradition, having consistently won G-MAC regular season and tournament championships and having competed in and won individual NCAA and NCWWC National Championships.
Sports-Related Majors: TU offers academic programs with an athletics focus, including Sports Management, Sports Marketing, Athletic Coaching, Sports Psychology, Esports, Global Sports and Culture, Sports Media and Athletic Administration.
The Whole Individual: Championships are exciting, but more important at TU is our coaches’ attention to developing the whole student-athlete – for success on the field, and in life.
75% Athletes: More than 75 percent of TU students compete in NCAA Division II athletics, creating an active, fun competitive spirit on campus.
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Football
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Soccer
Tennis
Track & Field
Wrestling
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Basketball
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DRAGON PATHWAY.
A CLEAR PATH TO SUCCESS.
As a result of an intentionally designed, structured educational experience, TU students find a clear path to success. They are better able to choose programs of study that match their goals and interests. They’re able to select the most appropriate courses to complete their credentials. They begin class eager to learn, and they deepen their classroom learning, and their enthusiasm, by engaging in hands-on, professional experiences. They are clear in their direction. They are more prepared to succeed.
Making an Impression
At TU’s Career Fairs, representatives often comment on the quality of the TU student. They remark on our students’ focus, their active engagement and the secret sauce: their professional, hands-on learning experiences.
In Good Company
Our recent TU graduates have begun their careers with notable companies and organizations. Just to name a few: Accenture, Akron Children’s Hospital, Apple, Bank of America, Calvert Catholic Schools, Cleveland Cavaliers, Deloitte, GE Aerospace, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Michigan State Police, Pfizer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Walt Disney World.
AFFORDABLE TU
Tiffin University is one of the most affordable private colleges in Ohio. How can that be? It’s simple. We offer a whole host of ways our students can reduce costs and still gain the benefits of a oneof-a-kind TU education.
Estimated tuition, fees, room and board: $48,282
Average Financial Aid Package: $29,003
TU’s Average Out-of-Pocket Cost: $19,546
The Office of Financial Aid is located in Seitz Hall. You can reach us at 419.448.3279 or finaid@tiffin.edu.
98% of enrolled students receive universitybased scholarships or financial assistance.
98.7% of TU alumni secured jobs or continued their education after graduation.*
*Class of 2023-2024 First Destination Survey, Tiffin University
$67,637
The average salary for a TU graduate.
SEE OUR PATHWAYS FOR YOURSELF.
So what does a Dragon Pathway filled with hands-on learning really look like? And what does a close community like TU’s actually feel like? There’s only one way to find out: you need to come visit. Just as a TU education stands apart, so too does a TU visit. The time, attention and care we give each of our students, we give to every visitor as well. You see, your visit is where your Dragon Pathway actually begins. You’ll get to know our admissions team well. You’ll enjoy a guided tour of our campus. You’ll meet with our professors. We’ll sit and discuss with you your interests and goals. We’ll talk about courses and opportunities that might align with them. We’ll get to know you; you’ll get to know us. And you’ll leave the day thinking: Hmm, I wonder where my pathway might lead. VISIT TIFFIN.
Individual Visit
There is absolutely, positively no better way to get to know TU. Call us or arrange your tailored visit online.
Open House
Another great way to visit. You’ll join others for a full, guided tour of campus; sit for an informational meeting; experience an interactive academic session with members of TU’s faculty; and hear from a student life Q&A panel with current undergraduates.
360 Campus Tour
To learn more about our beautiful campus, check out our virtual tour to get a glimpse of what it’s like to be part of our Dragon Nation. Schedule your visit, register for an open house, and view our 360 tour at: tiffin.edu/visit or give us a call at: 419.448.3423
