Earlham College

• Established in 1847 by Quakers, Earlham welcomes students of all faiths and offers an education that is still rooted in such Quaker values as integrity, equality, and mutual respect.
• Earlham is an incredibly welcoming place, offering a supportive environment for students from more than 40 states and 60 countries.
• Earlham has a reputation for excellent teaching, opportunities for study abroad, and for faculty who mentor and prepare their students to be successful.
• Earlhamites are bold—open to new ideas, academic challenges and cultures of the world. Earlham is an attractively diverse campus with students from more than 40 states and 60 countries.

• Through the EPIC Journey, Earlham students work with advisers and faculty to create a curated college experience that includes internships, off-campus study, research, and leadership development.
• Earlham offers every student the EPIC Advantage: a donor-funded opportunity to engage in an internship, research or other career-discerning experience, valued at up to $5,000.
• Earlham’s EPIC Centers provide expert advising and programming in Global and Career Education; Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity; Environmental Leadership; Global Health; and Social Justice.
• Earlham ranks within the top two percent of the nation for the percentage of graduates who earn the Ph.D., according to the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium. Within the overall group of 1,592 institutions, Earlham ranks 12th in the Life Sciences, 46th in the Social Sciences, 51st in Business, and 58th in Humanities in the percentage of graduates who go on to receive Ph.Ds.
• U.S. News & World Report ranks Earlham as 4th in the nation among all liberal arts colleges for the percentage of international students on campus.
• Nationally recognized for its commitment to global engagement, more than two-thirds 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.

• Earlham is nationally recognized for its commitment to excellence in teaching.
• 96% of full-time professors hold the most advanced degree in their field.
• Earlham’s professors are fully invested in undergraduate teaching and highly accessible to their students.
• Faculty members are active professionals who regularly publish research and scholarly works, often in collaboration with students.
• 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.

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Majors
African and African American Studies
Ancient and Classical Studies
Art
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Comparative Languages and Linguistics
Computer Science
Creative Writing
Data Science
Earth and Environmental Science
Economics
English
Environmental Sustainability
Exercise Science
French and Francophone Studies
Global Management (Business)
History
International Studies
Japanese Studies
Mathematics
Media and Communications
Museum Studies
Music
Neuroscience
Peace and Global Studies
Philosophy
Physics and Astronomy
Politics
Pre-engineering
Psychology
Public Policy
Religion
Social Services
Sociology / Anthropology
Spanish and Hispanic Studies
Theatre Arts
Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies

• Instead of fraternity and sorority houses, we have friendship houses: 20 themed residences where groups of like-minded students form their own communities around shared interests.
• Over the last year, Earlham students have report more than 23,000 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 19 intercollegiate teams, intramural sports and topflight workout facilities for all students.
• Campus governance stresses the value of the individual and includes students in campus decision-making.

NCAA Division III intercollegiate athletics program:

• Through the EPIC Advantage and EPIC Centers, Earlham students receive excellent career and graduation school preparation.
• Year after year, well over 90% of Earlham graduates are employed or enrolled in graduate school within six months of graduation.
• Top job industries for Earlhamites include healthcare, education, nonprofits, and technology.
• Nearly half of Earlham alumni graduating in the last 10 years enrolled in graduate or professional school 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 major post-baccalaureate awards such as the Rhodes Scholarship, the Knight-Hennessy Award, the National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, the Fulbright Teaching Assistantship, and the Rotary Peace Fellowship.
• Earlham alumni include Pulitzer Prize winning writers, an Emmy Award-winning actor, and a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.

• Earlham students have performed well in challenging high school coursework, achieving an average G.P.A. better than 3.5
• The majority of Earlham students ranked at least in the top 25% of their high school graduating classes.
• Earlham is test-score optional. For applicants who submitted a test score, the middle 50% range was 1180-1370 on the SAT and 26-30 on the ACT.