Beloit College

"What Beloit turns out is a better, more effective person, and one who tends to go on getting better ... [Beloit] outproduces very selective schools in graduates who make significant contributions and achievements."
-Loren Pope

CHARACTER

• Independent, four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences college; chartered in 1846, Beloit is Wisconsin's oldest college.

• Founded by Yale graduates to educate students for a rapidly changing world in the mid-19th century. Beloit's flexible curriculum continues to support its mission: To provide a living and learning environment that cultivates students who are at home in the world of ideas, value learning for its own sake, and are ready for intelligent and responsible participation in the world.

• Located in south-central Wisconsin, Beloit (pop. 36,000) is 90 miles northwest of Chicago and about an hour's drive south of Madison and Milwaukee.

• Beloit's 40-acre New England-style campus is situated on river bluffs, dotted with ancient North American Indian mounds, and adjacent to historic College Park, a residential neighborhood of Victorian homes.

WORTH NOTING

• The Beloit College campus has been transformed by the recently opened LEED-certified, environmentally sustainable Center for the Sciences—with ongoing updates on the project posted here.

• The National Survey of Student Engagement placed Beloit in the top 20% of colleges and universities in five benchmark categories that measure the quality of the student experience. (Beloit is one of only four schools to achieve this ranking.)

• Beloit is consistently ranked among the top U.S. liberal arts colleges and top international campuses by U.S. News & World Report.

• Nearly half of all Beloit students spend a semester studying abroad. Programs are available in Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Russia, Scotland, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkey, and other countries.

• The Mackey Chair in Creative Writing brings some of America's most notable writers to teach at Beloit each year, including Billy Collins, Ursula LeGuin, Amy Hempel, and Denise Levertov.

ENROLLMENT

• 1,300 students

• 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio

• Average class size: 15

• Students come from 47 states, 38 countries and the District of Columbia.

FACULTY & ACADEMICS

• 120 full-time faculty

• 94% of full-time faculty hold the most advanced degree in their field.

• BioQUEST and ChemLinks—two national science programs that initiate curricular reform in biology and chemistry undergraduate education—are headquartered at Beloit and run by Beloit faculty.

TUITION & FEES

• Tuition and Fees: $31,540

• Room, Board, and Fees: $6,696

• 85% of all students receive financial aid.

• Average award: $23,250

CAMPUS LIFE

• Beloit has an international flavor in the heart of the Midwest: 7% of the students are from countries outside the United States, and each year students (both international and American) formally share their experiences through International Symposium, a day when classes are cancelled so that everyone can attend student presentations.

• Students are engaged in all aspects of life at Beloit: 70% participate in intramural, club, or NCAA Division III varsity sports programs, and more than 100 student-run clubs and organizations are active on campus.

• 95% of students live on campus, either in residence halls, special interest houses, or sorority and fraternity houses.

• Frisbee golf is a favorite campus pastime. The course winds in and out of century-old trees, stretches the entire length of the 40-acre campus, and is open year-round.

ACADEMIC PROFILE OF ENTERING CLASS

• Median ACT score: 27

• Median SAT scores: 640 (Verbal) / 620 (Math)

• 80% come from public high schools

• 2,247 applications received; 1,411 accepted

• Number of new students: 338