"If every college and university sharpened young minds and consciences as effectively as Earlham does, this country would approach utopia."
-Colleges That Change Lives

• Selective, private liberal arts college offering a challenging intellectual experience in a collaborative and cooperative atmosphere
• Established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
• Curriculum features more than 40 disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields, and includes a new General Education program devised to prepare students for a life of critical knowledge and informed action
• Earlham has long been committed to advancing the causes of social justice and equality, and in building the conditions for a more peaceful world.

• An Earlham education is rooted in the Quaker values of tolerance, equality, justice, respect, and collaboration, and engages students with a changing world.
• Earlham is ranked 29rd (98th percentile) among 1,533 U.S. institutions of higher learning in the percentage of graduates who go on to receive Ph.D.s, and is 10th (99th percentile) in producing Ph.D.s in the biological sciences and 14th (99th percentile) in the life sciences.
• 65% of Earlham students study off campus in more than 20 countries and throughout the United States.
• Earlham's libraries are nationally recognized for integrating curricular research and bibliographic instruction.

• 96% of full-time faculty hold the most advanced degree in their field.
• Earlham's faculty are fully invested in undergraduate teaching and highly accessible to their students.
• Faculty are active professionals who regularly publish research and scholarly works, often in collaboration with students.

• Over the last year, Earlham students have reported an average of 47,136 hours of community service each year [many more hours go unreported].
• Students participate in numerous performing arts groups and over 60 student-run organizations.
• NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletics program with more than 20 intercollegiate and intramural sports.
• Campus governance stresses the value of the individual and includes students in campus decision-making.

• Earlham alumni are well prepared for meaningful careers and post-baccalaureate education. They seek out additional education on a large scale, with one in every 10 Earlhamites completing doctoral studies. Nearly half of Earlham alumni graduating in the last 10 years enrolled in graduate or professional school, including at such prestigious institutions as Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Oxford in England.
• Graduates from the past five years have earned such major post-baccalaureate awards as the National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, the Fulbright Teaching Assistantship and the Rotary Peace Fellowship. In addition, alumni have entered an extensive range of career areas with three of the most frequently chosen areas being education, medicine/public health, and non-profit organizations. Earlham alumni include Pulitzer Prize winning writers, an Emmy Award-winning actor and a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.

• 35% are American minority or international students.
• 61% of Earlham's students are in the top 25% of their high school graduating class.
• Median SAT score: 1260
• Median ACT score: 26