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Earlham College - SAT Scores, Costs and Admissions Data

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Earlham College Description:

Earlham College, a small liberal arts college affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), is located in the town of Richmond, Indiana. Loren Pope featured Earlham in 40 Colleges That Change Lives. The college's 800-acre campus features attractive brick buildings and extensive areas of undeveloped fields and woods. Earlham sends an impressive number of its students on to earn doctoral degrees, and the majority of students spend at least a semester studying off campus. Earlham has a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and it is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

Admissions Data (2012):

Enrollment (2011):

  • Total Enrollment: 1,207 (1,069 undergraduates)
  • Gender Breakdown: 45% Male / 55% Female
  • 98% Full-time

Costs (2012 - 13):

  • Tuition and Fees: $40,020
  • Books: $1,200 (why so much?)
  • Room and Board: $7,910
  • Other Expenses: $1,800
  • Total Cost: $50,930

Earlham College Financial Aid (2010 - 11):

  • Percentage of New Students Receiving Aid: 96%
  • Earlham Scholarships (Cappex.com)
  • Percentage of New Students Receiving Types of Aid
    • Grants: 94%
    • Loans: 58%
  • Average Amount of Aid
    • Grants: $26,779
    • Loans: $6,355

Most Popular Majors:

Art, Biology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Peace Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology

Data Source:

National Center for Educational Statistics

Earlham College Mission Statement:

mission statement from http://www.earlham.edu/about/mission-beliefs/mission-statement/

"The mission of Earlham College, an independent, residential college, is to provide the highest quality undergraduate education in the liberal arts, including the sciences, shaped by the distinctive perspectives of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). A basic faith of Friends is that all truth is God's truth; thus Earlham emphasizes: pursuit of truth, wherever that pursuit leads; lack of coercion, letting the evidence lead that search; respect for the consciences of others; openness to new truth and therefore the willingness to search; veracity, rigorous integrity in dealing with the facts; application of what is known to improving our world.

To provide education of the highest quality with these emphases, Earlham's mission requires selection of an outstanding and caring faculty committed to creating an open, cooperative, learning environment. The College provides for the continuous support and development of this faculty.

The teaching-learning process at Earlham is shaped by a view of education as a process of awakening the "teacher within," so that our students will become lifelong learners. Students at Earlham are encouraged to be active, involved learners. The College provides extensive opportunities for students and faculty to interact with each other as persons, to learn from each other in a cooperative community, an important aspect of which is collaborative student/faculty research.

At Earlham College this education is carried on with a concern for the world in which we live and for improving human society. The College strives to educate morally sensitive leaders for future generations. Therefore Earlham stresses global education, peaceful resolution of conflict, equality of persons, and high moral standards of personal conduct."

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