• Goucher College is a selective, private, all-gender, liberal arts college dedicated to providing a multidisciplinary, international education. Our emphasis is on experiential learning, including innovative internship experiences and our 100% study abroad policy.
• Located in the college town of Towson, Maryland, Goucher is just 10 miles north of downtown, guaranteeing our students plenty of opportunities for fun outside the classroom. Despite its urban
  environment, Goucher is a green oasis, surrounded by 287 wooded acres, streams, and walking trails.
• 84% of students live on campus, which boasts clubs like Beekeeping and Ultimate Frisbee, exhibits that celebrate art and history, and events like Humans vs. Zombies, which was founded at Goucher.

• 100% Study Abroad
  At Goucher College, we believe that no matter who you are or what you want to do in life, the global community of the 21st century demands that you have an international perspective. That’s why every Goucher student studies abroad with no tuition surcharges. We offer more than 100 study abroad opportunities in a variety of formats to ensure studying abroad is accessible to all Goucher students.
• Learn Anywhere
  Our innovative internship accelerator ensures Goucher students have access to in-person job experience starting their first year.
• A Global Education
  Goucher students come together from all over the world. Our current student body includes students from 51 countries and six continents. Goucher created new first-year housing, called the First-Year Village (FYV), in 2018. The spaces are designed for interaction, with prominent communal areas for students to come together to cook, share, and learn with sunlit lounges, soundproof study rooms, and a full kitchen on each floor. The three buildings encircle a tree-lined quad, whose amphitheater
  seating, firepit, and hammocks, provide plenty of opportunities to be outside with friends. Workout classes, such as kickboxing, Zumba, barre, and many others, take place in the FYV and the adjacent Decker Sports Center. There are so many ways to find community at Goucher, be that through our League of Legends team or the Goucher Adventure Club, which organizes hiking, camping, and climbing trips.
• The Goucher Commons Curriculum
  Goucher expects all students to pursue a common set of learning experiences while giving them the freedom to determine and follow their own interests. In this pursuit, students enter a space of inquiry and problem solving with their peers, whose varied experiences and perspectives help to create unique solutions. Ultimately, students will gain an integrative learning experience and develop proficiency in areas that will make them ready for the jobs of the future.Goucher expects all students to pursue a common set of learning experiences while giving them the freedom to determine and follow their own interests. In this pursuit, students enter a space of inquiry and problem solving with their peers, whose varied experiences and perspectives help to create unique solutions. Ultimately, students will gain an integrative learning experience and develop proficiency in areas that will make them ready for the jobs of the future.

• Students can choose a traditional major, or they can shape their education by combining different fields of study into a double major or interdisciplinary major.
• Goucher has partnerships with the following institutions, offering 4+1 and other accelerated degree programs: Columbia University, Middlebury, Johns Hopkins University, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Loyola, University of Maryland.

Goucher features more than 50 academic programs.

Majors
American Studies
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences
Business Management
Chemistry
Communications & Media Studies
Computer Science
Dance
Data Science
Digital Arts
Economics
Education Studies
Engineering Science
Environmental Studies: Environment and Society
Environmental Studies: Environmental Science
French Transnational Studies
History
Individualized Interdisciplinary Major
Integrative Arts Studies
International Relations
Literary Studies (English)
Neuroscience
Peace Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Professional & Creative Writing
Psychology
Public Health
Sociology/Anthropology
Spanish
Visual & Material Culture
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Minors
Africana Studies
Arabic Studies
Art History
Art (Studio)
Arts Management
Asian Studies
Creative Writing
Data Science
Equine Studies
International Business
Latin American Studies
Legal Studies
Literature
Music
Premed/Prehealth
Professional Writing
Religion and Justice
Secondary Education
Theatre

• 84% of students live on campus.
• Residence options include singles, doubles, multiples, apartment-style and theme housing.
• 30+ active clubs and organizations

NCAA Division III, Landmark Athletic Conference
Basketball (M/W)
Cross Country (M/W)
Field Hockey (W)
Golf (M/W)
Indoor/Outdoor Track & Field (M/W)
Lacrosse (M/W)
Soccer (M/W)
Swimming (M/W)
Tennis (M/W)
Volleyball (W)

IHSA Zone IV, Region I
Equestrian (M/W)

Landmark E-sports team League of Legends

• Goucher’s unique liberal arts curriculum promotes a broad education over narrow career training. When our graduates leave campus, they have mastered a range of knowledge in communication, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning—skills that employers overwhelmingly say they want job candidates to have.
• The results are clear. 96% of alumnae/i from our most recent graduating classes are either employed or pursuing a graduate degree.

• 52% Students of Color
• 35% First Generation
• 28 Countries
• 38% Student Athletes

• Nationally recognized independent college of the liberal arts and sciences
• Founded in 1867 as Western Maryland College. As one of the first coeducational colleges in the nation south of the Mason-Dixon Line and one of the first coeducational colleges in the nation, McDaniel strives to continue its tradition of social justice by committing to being a diverse and inclusive community. We are guided by our First Principles, which compel us to place students at the center of a humane environment and demand that we respect others and share responsibility for the common good.
• The College’s motto, E Tenebris in Lucem Voco, or “I call you out of darkness into light,” inspired a tradition with all first-year students processing through Ward Memorial Arch to be symbolically welcomed into the McDaniel community.
• McDaniel’s unique tailgating tradition and drive-in stadium have been highlighted nationally as a best college tailgate.   
• 160-acre campus sits atop a hill overlooking downtown Westminster, Md., Carroll County’s largest town and county seat. 
• McDaniel offers access to the resources of Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

• Academics center on the McDaniel Plan, a personalized, interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes experiential learning and student-faculty collaboration to develop the unique potential in every student. Many students choose more than one major and minor or even self-design their own.
• All students take a first-year seminar that focuses on a unique topic, from “College Life and Cinema” to “Tinkering with Discovery.” These courses are designed as both a transition to college and an introduction to the liberal arts.
• Each year, more than 300 students collaborate with their professors on research across all disciplines. Many of these students are published authors by the time they graduate.
• The Center for Experience & Opportunity (CEO) is McDaniel’s one-stop shop that focuses on experiential learning and connects students with internships, fellowships, jobs, study-abroad programs and alumni mentors.
• Over one-third of students study abroad for academic credit in more than 50 countries, including at McDaniel’s European campus in Budapest, Hungary.
• Learning doesn’t end in the classroom; The McDaniel Commitment guarantees every student a tailored educational program that includes personal development, career exploration and at least two real-world, hands-on learning opportunities, including service learning, study abroad, credit-based internship or independent study.
• Army ROTC has been a tradition at McDaniel since 1919, and the Green Terror Battalion is one of the oldest programs in the nation. McDaniel also participates in the Post-9/11 GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon Program.  

• 96% of full-time faculty hold the most advanced degree in their field.
• All courses, studios, and laboratories are taught by faculty members, not teaching assistants.
• More than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors. Also offered are pre-professional programs including pre-allied health, pre-med, and pre-law, as well as teaching certification.
  
• A free January Term course for first-year students guides them in identifying their strengths, interests and goals, and exploring relevant majors and careers, while developing a customized action plan.
• Special opportunities abound through McDaniel’s Center for Experience and Opportunity, The Encompass Distinction program in innovation and entrepreneurship, the Honors Program, and Global Initiatives including the Global Fellows program.

For the most current listings, please check the college website.

Majors, Minors, and Specializations
Accounting
Acting
Actuarial Science
Africana Studies
American History
American Sign Language
Applied Mathematics
Arabic
Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies – Cultural Specialization
Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies – Linguistic Specialization
Art
Art – Communication Dual Major
Art – Education minor
Art – Graphic Design Specialization
Art History
Asian Studies
Athletic Training
Biochemistry
Biology
Biology – Education minor
Biology – Environmental Studies Specialization
Biology – Mathematics Dual Major
Biology – Molecular Biology Specialization
Biomedical Science
Business Administration
Business Administration – Financial Economics Specialization
Chemistry
Chemistry – Biochemistry Specialization
Chemistry – Education minor
Chemistry – Kinesiology Dual Major
Cinema
Cinema – Theatre Arts Dual Major
Communication
Computer Science
Computer Science – Education minor
Computer Science – Mathematics Dual Major
Criminal Justice
Cross Cultural Studies
Economics
Economics – Mathematics Dual Major
Education
Elementary Education
Engineering
English
English – Education minor
English-Theatre Arts Dual Major
Entrepreneurship
Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies – Biology Specialization
Environmental Studies – Earth System Science Specialization
Environmental Studies – Policy and Management Specialization
European History
European Studies
Forensic Science
French
Health Sciences
Health Sciences – Athletic Training Specialization
Health Sciences – Chiropractic Specialization
Health Sciences – Nursing Specialization
Health Sciences – Occupational Theapy Specialization
Health Sciences – Pharmacy Specialization
Health Sciences – Physical Therapy Specialization
Health Sciences – Physician Assistant Specialization
History
History – Education minor
International Business
Journalism and New Media
Kinesiology
Marketing
Mathematics
Mathematics – Education minor
Mathematics – Physics Dual Major
Middle Eastern Studies
Musical Theatre Performance
Performance, Fitness & Conditioning
Philosophy
Physics
Physics – Computer Science Specialization
Physics – Education minor
Physics – Engineering Specialization
Political Science
Political Science – American Politics and Law Specialization
Political Science – Education minor
Political Science – International Studies Specialization
Popular Literature
Psychology
Religious Studies
Social Work
Sociology
Sociology – Education minor
Spanish
Sports Coaching
Sports Management
Student-Designed
Theatre Arts
Urban and Community Studies
Women’s Studies
Writing
Writing and Publishing

Pre-professional Programs
Pre-Allied Health 
Pre-Dental
Pre-Law 
Pre-Medical
Pre-Veterinary

Five-Year BA/MS Programs
Gerontology
Human Services Management
Teaching: Secondary Education
Secondary Education & Special Education  

Other Programs
Global Fellows
McDaniel Honors Program
Military Science (ROTC) 
National Security Fellows
Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• More than 80% of undergraduate students live on campus. Special housing options include campus apartments, language houses, and college-owned residences assigned to groups of students with shared interests.
• McDaniel Local, a pre-orientation experience that immerses first-year students in the McDaniel community and their local surroundings, connects students with their peers and new mentors, and sets the foundation for making the most of life on the Hill.
• Represented by the Green Terror, McDaniel’s 24 athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division III, Centennial Conference athletics.
• More than 20 national and international honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, recognize leadership, service, and academic achievement.
• More than 100 student organizations and intramural sports, plus fraternities and sororities.
• Nine-hole golf course doubles as an 18-hole Foot Golf course and is a popular snowboarding and sledding spot in the winter months.

NCAA Division III, Centennial Conference:

• McDaniel’s more than 28,000 alumni reside in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 75 countries.
• Graduates report that they are well prepared to succeed in their chosen careers with such employers as NBCUniversal, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and T. Rowe Price, as well as in their first-choice graduate programs for advanced degrees in law, medicine, and numerous other fields. 
• Over the past five years, nine McDaniel students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for international studies. Seven students received Gilman International Scholarships from the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs since 2012.
• Notable alumni include Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Wendy Ruderman; Perdue Farms Chief Executive Officer Randy Day, the fourth CEO in the company’s 100-year history; elected officials, such as Ellen Sauerbrey, two-time Republican nominee for governor of Maryland who served 16 years in the House of Delegates, and Edward Kasemeyer, a long-serving member of the Maryland General Assembly; National Teacher of the Year Michelle Shearer; and video game designer Greg Street, known for his work on “League of Legends” and “World of Warcraft.”  

• Largest ever and most diverse: 587 first-year and 50 transfer students, including 50% multicultural   
  
• A large percentage of incoming students earn merit scholarships based on scholastic and personal achievement, ranging from $15,000 to $28,000 per year.
• McDaniel’s Legacy Scholarships provide a guaranteed $25,000 (a value of $100K over four years) to children of K-12 or community college employees; veterans, active duty military personnel and their children; and the children, step-children, or grandchildren of McDaniel alumni.
• If you are applying and don’t have SAT or ACT scores, no problem! McDaniel College is proudly test-optional. Students who believe their test scores demonstrate their ability or enhance their application are welcome to submit them. Students who believe that standardized test scores do not accurately reflect the strength of their academic achievements or enhance their application for admission can choose not to submit test scores. In either case, test scores will not be used for the purposes of awarding merit scholarships.

• St. John’s College is centered on reading and discussing the greatest books in history. With teachers such as Plato, Shakespeare, Euclid, Nietzsche, Einstein, Austen, and Du Bois, students at St. John’s are original and unconventional, love big questions and discussion, and are excited to join an intellectual community of thinkers and seekers.
• The college is a single institution on two campuses — one in Annapolis, Maryland, and the other in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Students are free to transfer between the two campuses from year to year, and about 25% of them take advantage of this opportunity.
• The college has a single academic program—the “great books curriculum”—which all undergraduate students follow in its entirety. For graduate students, the college also offers a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and a Master of Arts in Eastern Classics.
• Despite its name, St. John’s has no religious affiliation or nature. It was founded in Annapolis in 1696, making it the third oldest college in the United States. The Santa Fe campus opened in 1964.
• Students at St. John’s — “Johnnies” — are curious, thoughtful, imaginative, intense, dedicated to learning, and lovers of good talk. The latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives notes, “You won’t find a college cafeteria anywhere where eavesdropping is more fun.”

• “Books, books, and more books is what you’ll get at St. John’s,” notes The Fiske Guide, which also observes that the college “attracts smart, intellectual, and nonconformist students who like to talk (and argue) about books.”
• A study by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, adjusting for institutional size and number of degrees granted, found that St. John’s is among the most productive sources of future Ph.D.s. About 70% of St. John’s alumni pursue their formal education beyond the baccalaureate degree at some point in their careers.
• The New York Times calls St. John’s “the most contrarian college in America” and Forbes says it may be “the most rigorous college in America.”
• The Princeton Review reports that “St. John’s has one of the most personal admissions processes in the country.”
• St. John’s regularly ranks among top colleges by US News and The Princeton Review for best undergraduate teaching, best classroom experience, and most accessible professors.
• The college was recently featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets for the distinctiveness of the curriculum and the radical approach to college affordability. In 2018, St. John’s announced the college would lower tuition and continue to provide substantial financial aid funded by alumni contributions to the $300 million capital campaign.

• All students at St. John’s explore the great books curriculum in interdisciplinary classes focused on philosophy, classics, literature, politics, religion, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, music, history, language, and more.
• The all-required curriculum is curiously liberating. There are no majors; every year students take classes in mathematics, language (Ancient Greek and French), music, and science, and the hallmark of the program is the interdisciplinary seminar, where students discuss the great books. While most of the curriculum is a shared academic experience among the students, juniors and seniors take electives called preceptorials, where they examine a book, topic, or idea in greater detail.
• All faculty members are called “tutors” — there are no professorial ranks, and the title “professor” is not used, even though most faculty are experts in their fields. All classes are taught by the tutors, and there are no graduate teaching assistants; 100% of the faculty teaches undergraduate classes.
• All classrooms have a large wooden table around which the students and tutors sit, and all classes are conducted as conversations, whether the work at hand is mathematics or philosophy, music or political theory, literature or science.
• The student/faculty ratio is 7:1, and the largest classes have no more than 21 students. Students have conversations with tutors before class, after class, over coffee, at lunch or dinner — the tutors do not hold “hours” because they meet with their students all the time without making formal arrangements to do so.
• The hallmark of the St. John’s classroom is the collaborative style of learning. Instead of lecturing, the tutors ask questions, provoke thinking, guide conversations, and support the students as they wrestle with ideas.
• At the end of each semester students meet with their tutors for an oral evaluation called the Don Rag, during which they are evaluated based upon their classroom participation and essay writing. Grades are not part of the culture at St. John’s, nor are they part of the formal evaluation process. While students are graded, they don’t receive the grades unless they ask for them (typically when applying to graduate school).

There is a singular interdisciplinary program at St. John’s College because the human mind is not segmented into majors. All students follow the same curriculum based on reading original texts — the great books— and examining them in small, discussion-based classes. The program is well-balanced between the humanities on the one hand and the sciences and math on the other. Significant areas of concentration emerge in the five categories of classes: seminar, math, science, music, and language.

Seminar:
Classics
Economics
English / Literature
History
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religion / Theology

Math Tutorial:
Algebra
Astronomy
Calculus
Geometry
Number Theory
Relativity

Science Laboratory:
Astronomy / Astrophysics
Biology
Chemistry
Genetics
Physics

Music Tutorial:
Chorus
Music Theory

Language Tutorial:
Ancient Greek
French

• The life of the classroom permeates the life of the campus. Johnnies are wholeheartedly invested in community, and although they pursue non-academic interests with gusto, you can still hear them having conversations about what they’re reading, everywhere from the gym during basketball games to the dorms in the middle of the night.
• Both campuses are small tightly-knit communities, with the majority of students living on campus and centering their lives on their studies and their campus lives.
• On the Annapolis campus, 500 students experience an idyllic college town along the Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis is close to Washington, DC, with dozens of nearby museums and cultural offerings. The college was founded here in 1696, and students embrace long-held traditions such as waltz parties, intramural sports, and the annual croquet match against the Naval Academy. Popular student groups include musical ensembles, community service organizations, and the college’s theatrical troupe, King Williams Players.
• The Santa Fe campus, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, is a one-minute walk to the best hiking, biking, and skiing in the southwest. Santa Fe is also home to more than 250 art galleries, great food, and live music. Nearly 400 Johnnies embrace the stunning natural environment and rich cultural heritage of New Mexico while reading great books on the placita, hiking 12,000-foot mountains, sculpting in the pottery studio, or socializing in the student-run coffee shop.
• The two campuses offer a wide variety of on-campus activities (athletics, music, arts, dance, publications, theater, etc.) and each has an array of opportunities specific to its location.

• Over 50% of students participate in the intramural program. Regardless of skill level, students are able to discover (or re-discover) the joy of amateur athletics in a welcoming setting, such as soccer, basketball, ultimate Frisbee, flag football and more.
• In Santa Fe, which is located in the Rocky Mountains, students are a one-minute walk to the best hiking, biking, and skiing in the southwest.
• In Annapolis, which is located on the Chesapeake Bay, students compete on the intercollegiate sailing and crew teams. The college is famous for the annual croquet match against the U.S. Naval Academy, which regularly draws over 7,000 spectators.

What makes for a successful college graduate? According to most conventional measures, St. John’s alumni excel in their careers, from law to medicine, from academia to Wall Street, from politics to the military, from information technology to fashion design, from manufacture to farming, from nuclear physics to film making. Having all followed the same curriculum at the college, they fan out after graduation into virtually all fields, attending top graduate and professional schools, racking up achievements, pursuing their goals. 70% go to graduate school. St. John’s is in the top two percent of all colleges and universities in the nation for percent of alumni who go on to earn PhDs; in the top one percent for degrees in the humanities and the top four percent for those in science and engineering. Since 1990, St. John’s has graduated 13 Fulbright Scholars, 6 Rhodes Scholars, 6 Goldwater Scholars, and 5 Truman Scholars.

In addition to their graduate school and career success, St. John’s alumni talk about a college experience that was personally and professionally transformative:

“St. John’s prepared me to become a quick learner, to think on my feet, and, most importantly, to know when I didn’t know something. Every day, I rely on the foundation in philosophical inquiry that I found at St. John’s.” —Senior Manager of Strategic Planning and Research, American Honda Motor Company (class of 1980).

“There are days when having been to St. John’s almost seems like an unfair advantage compared to my colleagues. I mean, if I can figure out the Maxwell Equations, or muddle through the Principia Mathematica, how hard can it be to have the confidence that I can figure out some policy issue?” —Diplomat, US Department of State, Iraq (class of 1988)

“It’s extraordinary that ideas I encountered over 40 years ago at St. John’s are still so vital to my life and work. Perhaps that’s the promise of Great Books and a Great Books education: that its value to you will increase, rather than decrease, over time.” —Screenwriter and Director (class of 1964)

Career Services helps students apply for jobs, prepare for interviews, choose graduate programs, and get internships. Over half of students do internships in the summers, many of which are funded by the college.

Some notable Johnnies includes Francis Scott Key (writer of the national anthem), Ahmet Ertegun (founder of Atlantic Records), Lucy Tamlin (U.S. Ambas­sador), Salvatore Scibona (novelist), and Warren Winiarski (founder of Stag’s Leap Vineyards).

• Middle 50% of SAT scores: Evidence Based Reading ad Writing 630-730; Math 590-710
• Middle 50% of ACT scores: 26-32
• St. John’s does not require standardized test scores from most applicants, nor does the college have a minimum GPA requirement. The application essays are the primary focus for the admission decision, supported by the secondary school record and recommendations.