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Ursinus College |
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Ursinus is a highly selective, independent, four-year, co-educational liberal arts college with a long tradition of academic
excellence. It is one of only eight percent of U.C. colleges and universities to house a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the
national academic honor society. The college history dates back two centuries to a log schoolhouse and the former Freeland
Seminary. The college’s founders named Ursinus for the distinguished 16th-century Reformation scholar, Zacharias Baer (Ursa
in Latin) of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. |
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| County |
Montgomery County, PA |
| Title IV Eligible |
Yes |
| Carnegie Classification |
Baccalaureate (Liberal Arts) Colleges I |
| Institution Level |
4 or more years |
| Institution Control |
Private, non-profit |
| Full-Time Undergraduate |
1,552 students
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| Part-Time Undergraduate |
19 students
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| Total Enrollment |
1,571 students
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| Total Dormitory Capacity |
1,374 students
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| % Students Receiving Some Financial Aid |
90 % |
| % Students Receiving Federal Grants |
21 % |
| Avg. Amount Of Federal Grants Received |
$4,070 |
| % Students Receiving State/Local Grants |
28% |
| Avg. Amount Of State/Local Grants Received |
$2,873 |
| % Students Receiving Institutional Grants |
90% |
| Avg. Amount Of Institutional Grants Received |
$16,682 |
| % Students Receiving Loans |
85% |
| Avg. Amount Of Loan Received |
$3,921 |
- Liberal education is provided through an academic program that empowers the intellect, awakens moral
sensitivity, and challenges students to improve society. Students gain intellectual curiosity, the capacity to think
analytically, critically, and creatively, and the skill to express thoughts with logic, clarity, and grace. Further, they
develop a deepened sense of human history and an understanding of who they are as persons, what they ought to do as citizens,
and how they best can appreciate the diversity and ambiguity of contemporary experience.
- To meet this challenge, the Ursinus liberal studies curriculum has three components: The Core, a
broad-based common experience to give all students the communications skills, and the scientific, cultural, and historical
literacy that are fundamental to a liberally educated person; Study in Depth in one or more of 23 academic majors, to provide
the basis for lifelong engagement in intellectual inquiry; The Independent Learning Experience prepares students to become
independent, life-long learners. Each student must undertake one of the following: a) independent research or creative
project: b) internship; c) study abroad; d) student teaching; e) Summer Fellow Program or a comparable summer research
program.
- Ursinus College, known for the beauty of its campus setting, is part of the richly varied higher
educational community of the greater Philadelphia region. Our 167-acre campus in suburban Montgomery County is just 30 miles
from Center City. The small-town ambience of Collegeville contrasts with busy Philadelphia and the huge corporate and retail
complex 10 miles away at Valley Forge/King of Prussia, and with the biotechnology research concentration just outside the
town.
- Ursinus has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and in athletics is a member of the Centennial Conference, along
with Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore, Washington, and
Western Maryland. We are distinguished for our record of fostering student achievement. We are acclaimed for the quality of
undergraduate research our students produce.
- Ursinus has been named a Yahoo! Most Wired College and is listed among the Forbes.com-Princeton
Review's Top 25 "Most Connected" colleges.
- Profile last updated: 00/00/0000.
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