Academics
The Gettysburg Experience is rooted in a rigorous liberal arts and science curriculum. We augment academic excellence with community responsibility and global experiences, provide leadership opportunities and engage with public-policy issues.
A strong academic tradition
- Highly selective, national college of liberal arts and sciences
- 100% tenured faculty have a PhD or terminal degree
- 10 to 1 student/faculty ratio - average class size of 18
- 67 majors, minors, and programs with a strong interdisciplinary program
- Increasing number of Fulbright Scholars
- Faculty are expert teachers, researchers and scholars
- Distinguished alumni that includes 3 Rhodes Scholars, Nobel Prize recipient, Newbery Medalist
- Nearly 50 percent of the students study off-campus
- Every student has a capstone experience
- Academic Honor Code since 1957
Faculty and student research
Few colleges offer undergraduates as many opportunities to conduct research with faculty mentors. Each year hundreds of students across all majors take part. Many students co-author projects that are published in leading scholarly journals or presented at national conferences.
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports opportunities for student-faculty collaboration at Gettysburg College with a $500,000 grant
- Annual student research colloquium
- Faculty have received more that 50 NSF and NEH grants







