Lawrence University

P.o. Box 599, Appleton, WI 54912 -  View Map

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• The Power of Individualized Learning Like most private colleges, Lawrence offers a small student-faculty ratio (9:1) and average class size (15). Unlike most private colleges, Lawrence teaches an extraordinary number of individualized courses—honors projects, tutorials, studio lessons—where one student works directly with a professor. Of the 2,000 courses we teach each year, nearly two-thirds have total enrollments of one. By the time they graduate, 90 percent of our students will have had at least one individualized class.
• Right-brained or left-brained? Why not both? With more than 60 areas of academic interest, Lawrence provides fertile ground for a garden of academic wildflowers. It’s not unusual to find Lawrence students double-majoring in unusual ways: English and math; economics and percussion performance; physics and studio art. If you’re interested in two or three (or more) majors or minors, you’ll be in good company at Lawrence, where our most popular academic interest is “multi-interested,” not “undecided.”
• Engaged community Our 1,400 students come from nearly every state and more than 50 countries to enjoy the distinctive benefits of this engaged—and engaging—community right in the heart of Appleton, Wisconsin (pop. 72,000; metro pop. 225,000). It’s a close-knit, residential, 24/7 campus filled with smart and interesting people who are comfortable being themselves—and comfortable letting others be themselves, too.
• Internationally diverse With about 12 percent of our students and 13 percent of our faculty coming from beyond the United States, Lawrence is one of the most internationally diverse liberal arts colleges in the country.
• Life after Lawrence Lawrence alumni are all over the world working in industry, music, communication, government, not-for-profit and service agencies, and education. Lawrence alumni are also a proud bunch, and they prove it. Lawrence enjoys one of the nation’s highest alumni giving rates (the percentage of alumni who donate financially to their college), which tells us not only that they love their alma mater, but that they are doing well enough financially to support it.
• Profile last updated: 06/01/2011.

In the News:

• Predators hosting fan bus (Leader-Telegram)
  posted on July 26, 2011 at 04:23:16 am
  The Chippewa Valley Predators are putting together a fan bus to travel to Saturday's Northern Elite Football League Divisional Playoff game against the Fox Valley Force at Lawrence University in Appleton.
• Kinsey named to Lawrence dean’s list (The Log Cabin Democrat)
  posted on July 20, 2011 at 11:57:20 pm
  APPLETON, WIS. — Kinsey Fournier, daughter of Karla Fournier of Conway, has been named to the 2010-11 Lawrence University dean’s list for maintaining a minimum 3.4 grade point average.
• Lawrence University graduate earns Emmy nomination (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
  posted on July 17, 2011 at 09:19:25 am
  APPLETON A recent Lawrence University graduate has earned an Emmy nomination.
• Former Lawrence Viking hockey player Jon Sheridan signs with Knoxville Ice Bears (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
  posted on July 14, 2011 at 09:34:38 am
  APPLETON Former Lawrence University hockey star Jon Sheridan signed with the Knoxville Ice Bears.
• Strasser joins Lawrence womens basketball staff (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
  posted on July 12, 2011 at 09:38:33 am
  APPLETON Morgan Strasser has joined the Lawrence University womens basketball coaching staff, director of athletics Mike Szkodzinski announced Monday.

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