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Kenyon College Profile - SAT Scores, Costs and Admissions Data

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Kenyon College

Kenyon College

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Kenyon College Description:

Located in the village of Gambier in rural Ohio, Kenyon College is one of the top-ranked liberal arts colleges in the country. It also has the distinction of being the oldest private college in Ohio. Kenyon prides itself on the strength of its faculty, and with a 10 to 1 student / faculty ratio and average class size of 15, undergraduates will have lots of interaction with their professors. The attractive campus with its gothic architecture features a 380-acre nature preserve. For its strengths in the liberal arts and sciences, Kenyon was awarded a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Admissions Data (2012):

Enrollment (2011):

  • Total Enrollment: 1,658 (all undergraduate)
  • Gender Breakdown: 46% Male / 54% Female
  • 99% Full-time

Costs (2012 - 13):

  • Tuition and Fees: $44,420
  • Books: $1,800 (why so much?)
  • Room and Board: $10,340
  • Other Expenses: $1,350
  • Total Cost: $57,910

Kenyon College Financial Aid (2010 - 11):

  • Percentage of Students Receiving Aid: 61%
  • Kenyon College Scholarships (Cappex.com)
  • Percentage of Students Receiving Types of Aid
    • Grants: 54%
    • Loans: 57%
  • Average Amount of Aid
    • Grants: $22,501
    • Loans: $3,865

Most Popular Majors:

Anthropology, Drama, Economics, English, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, International Studies, Political Science, Psychology

Graduation and Retention Rates:

  • First Year Student Retention (full-time students): 94%
  • 4-Year Graduation Rate: 83%
  • 6-Year Graduation Rate: 87%

Data Source:

National Center for Educational Statistics

Kenyon College Mission Statement:

complete mission statement available at http://www.kenyon.edu/x11758.xml

"Over the 185 years of its life, Kenyon College has developed a distinctive identity and has sought a special purpose among institutions of higher learning. Kenyon is an academic institution. The virtue of the academic mode is that it deals not with private and particular truths, but with the general and the universal. It enables one to escape the limits of private experience and the tyranny of the present moment. But to assert the primacy of the academic is not to deny the value of experience or of other ways of knowing. Kenyon's academic purpose will permeate all that the College does, but the definition of the academic will be open to recurrent questioning.

Kenyon's larger purposes as a liberal arts institution derive from those expressed centuries ago in Plato's academy, although our disciplines and modes of inquiry differ from those of that first "liberal arts college." We have altered our curriculum deliberately in answer to changes in the world, as an organism responds to its environment without losing its identity. Kenyon's founder gave a special American character to his academy by joining its life to the wilderness frontier. His Kenyon was to afford its students a higher sense of their own humanity and to inspire them to work with others to make a society that would nourish a better humankind. To that end, and as an important educational value in itself, Kenyon maintains a deep commitment to diversity. Kenyon today strives to persuade its students to those same purposes."

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