The University of Dayton is a private religious university in OH, founded in 1850, and offers Bachelor’s degrees for undergraduates and Master’s and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 8,644, and the graduate enrollment is 730. The University of Dayton is a moderately selective school, receiving 16,658 applications and accepting 80.9% of applicants. Its athletics teams compete at the club, intramural, and varsity levels, and the university employs 612 full-time instructional staff (88% of whom hold doctorate degrees) with a 15:1 student-to-faculty ratio.