Key Messages

• Gettysburg College has a strong academic tradition
• Our historic location inspires passion for responsible citizenship and leadership
• Distinctive programs set us apart from other liberal arts colleges
• Students are engaged: they see a need and fill it
• Successful outcomes are a hallmark of a Gettysburg education

Gettysburg College has a strong academic tradition

• Highly selective, national college of liberal arts and sciences
• 100 percent tenured faculty have a PhD or terminal degree
• 10:1 student/faculty ratio with an average class size of 18
• Gettysburg College is the right size for breadth and depth of offerings, but small enough to facilitate close student-faculty collaboration
• 63 majors, minors and programs with a strong interdisciplinary focus
• First-year seminars
• Heston international community-action experience; Mellon research scholars
• Annual academic research colloquium
• Strong in the sciences - Goldwater Scholars
• Increasing number of Fulbright Scholars among students & faculty
• Accomplished faculty are expert teachers, researchers and scholars
• Faculty have received more than 50 NSF and NEH grants
• Three Rhodes Scholars, Nobel Prize winner, Newbery Medalist
• Strong faculty publishing record
• Nearly 50 percent of the students study off-campus in their four years
• Every student has a capstone experience
• Academic Honor Code since 1957

Our historic location inspires passion for responsible citizenship and leadership

• The Battle of Gettysburg swept through the campus
• Pennsylvania Hall served as a hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg
• The First-Year Walk replicates the 1863 walk to the cemetery to hear Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address
• David Wills, an 1851 graduate of Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) College invited President Lincoln to deliver "a few appropriate remarks"
• Dwight David Eisenhower, trustee and friend of Gettysburg College
• Eisenhower Admissions House served as office for former president
• Today, close proximity to four major urban cultural centers in the northeast - New York City, Washington, DC, Baltimore and Philadelphia - provides academic and co-curricular opportunities

Distinctive programs set us apart from other liberal arts colleges

• Sunderman Conservatory of Music
• Eisenhower Institute for Public Policy and Leadership
• Civil War programs: Civil War Institute and Civil War Era Studies
• Garthwait Leadership Center
• The Gettysburg Review, a prize winning, professional literary journal

Students are engaged: they see a need and fill it

• Co-curricular leadership opportunities
• Center for Public Service
• Eisenhower Institute Fellows
• Nine musical performance groups
• Active theater groups
• More that 120 Clubs and organizations
• Theme houses
• Campus Kitchens was one of the first 12 college/university programs that collect and distribute unused food to local social service agencies
• Student run organic garden
• Gettysburg Recreational Adventure Board (GRAB)
• Strong NCAA D-III athletic program with 24 varsity sports

Successful outcomes are a hallmark of a Gettysburg education

• 82 percent of Gettysburg students graduate in 4 years (40% national avg)
• 95 percent of Gettysburg students are either employed or in grad school within one year of graduation
• 50 percent of alumni have advanced degrees within five years of graduating
• 26,000 alumni create a strong career network
• Through 2014 Gettysburg College will offer 1,832 new career related experiences for students

Updated: 02/23/10