Drake is no exception.
For the past five years, the percentages of incoming female students at Drake have been between 57 percent and 62 percent, topping out at the latter figure this fall. These figures are about the same at three other top small midwest colleges. Knox College, in Galesburg, Ill., has a 55 percent to 45 percent female to male split. Creighton University, in Omaha, Neb., has a 55 percent to 45 percent split. Xavier University, in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a 60 percent to 40 percent split.