Degrees Offered

Accreditation

Enrollment

  • 2,456 (FTE, fall 2009)
  • 57.3% women; 42.7% men
  • 13% racially underrepresented students
  • 36 international students enrolled in degree programs

Average Class Size

15

Student/Faculty Ratio

11:1

Faculty

  • 199 full-time faculty; 87 part-time
  • 58% of full-time faculty are tenured
  • 97% of tenure-track faculty hold the terminal degree in their fields

Academic Distinctions

  • A chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest scholastic honor society
  • Host of the Nobel Conference, the first ongoing educational conference of its kind sanctioned by The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Fulbright, Goldwater, Marshall, National Science Foundation, Rhodes, and Truman fellowship winners
  • Peace Education Program and the annual MAYDAY! Peace Conference
  • 80 percent 4-year graduation rate
  • 90 percent of underclass students enrolled in the previous fall return for the next fall
  • Acclaimed Writing Across the Curriculum program
  • Award-winning community service programs
  • Strong career development and internship programs
  • 50 percent of graduating seniors study abroad
  • Individualized majors
  • Curriculum options: Curriculum I (distributive core) and Curriculum II (integrated core)
  • First Term Seminars—Students take a small class to improve critical thinking and college writing skills from a professor-adviser
  • Numerous student research opportunities, including research, scholarship, and creativity grants available for faculty/student collaboration

Academics

Departments and Programs
Name Division
Art & Art History Fine Arts
Biology Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Chemistry Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Classics Humanities
Communication Studies Fine Arts
Computer Science Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Economics & Management Social Sciences
Elementary & Secondary Education Education
English Humanities
Environmental Studies Interdisciplinary
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Interdisciplinary
Geography Social Sciences
Geology Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Health & Exercise Science Education
History Humanities
Japanese Studies Interdisciplinary
Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies Interdisciplinary
Mathematics Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Humanities
Music Fine Arts
Neuroscience Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Nursing Education
Occupational Therapy & Physical Therapy Pre-professional
Peace Studies Interdisciplinary
Philosophy Humanities
Physics Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Political Science Social Sciences
Pre-Dentistry Pre-professional
Pre-Engineering Pre-professional
Pre-Law Pre-professional
Pre-Medical Pre-professional
Pre-Veterinary Pre-professional
Psychology Social Sciences
Religion Humanities
Russian Studies Humanities
Scandinavian Studies Humanities
Sociology & Anthropology Social Sciences
Theatre & Dance Fine Arts
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Events

New Faculty Orientation Session (Tenure Track Only) Feb 11 12:301:20 pm

Women's Tennis at Northern Iowa Feb 12 15 pm

M. Hockey vs. Hamline University Feb 12 7:059:05 pm

Richard Leitch

Dr. Richard Leitch earned his BA in East Asian Studies from Colby · College in 1985, and went on to earn an MA in Asian Studies from the · University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign after a two year career on · Wall Street. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Illinois in · 1995, where he was the recipient of the Harriet…

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