Facts and figures

General information

Founded: 1832
Type: A highly selective, national, four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences
Location: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; on a beautiful 225-acre campus with over 90 buildings. Adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park. 36 miles from the state capital of Harrisburg, 55 miles from Baltimore, 80 miles from Washington, D.C., 117 miles from Philadelphia, and 212 miles from New York City.
2021 Carnegie Basic Classification: Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts and Sciences Focus
Accreditation: Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education

Academic programs: over 40 majors; over 40 minors
Student to faculty ratio: 10 to 1
Average class size: 18; median class size: 17. Class sizes vary by course level and by discipline. For example, 300-level classes average 15 students. First-Year Seminars average 15 students.
Baccalaureate degrees conferred during the 2023-24 academic year: 554 students earned a bachelor’s degree, including 139 students (25 percent of the class) who completed more than one major. In total, these 554 students completed 696 majors.
Most popular majors among the 2024 graduating class: Business, Organizations, & Management (16.1 percent of the class, or 89/554), Political Science (13.2 percent, or 73/554), Economics and Mathematical Economics (combined, 10.6 percent, or 59/554), Psychology (10.1 percent, or 56/554), Health Sciences (9.6 percent, or 53/554), History (7.6 percent, or 42/554), and Biological Sciences (BIO & BMB combined, 6.1 percent, or 34/554). For historical data. visit this table.

Total number of full-time faculty: approximately 200
Female: 45%; male: 55%
96 percent hold a doctorate or other terminal degree. All tenured and tenure-track faculty have a doctorate or other terminal degree.
Tenured: 71%
Tenured and tenure-track (combined): 85%
Domestic faculty of color and international faculty (combined): 25%

Completed at least one internship: 78%
Worked with faculty on research: 55%
Studied abroad (for credit) for a semester or longer: 44% (Note that prior to the COVID pandemic, over 50 percent of a graduating class had studied abroad.)
Served in a campus leadership role(s) (e.g., campus organization/club officer, program coordinator): 61%
Additionally, students participate in other High-Impact Practices. All students are required to take a First Year Seminar and complete a capstone course or experience. Many students also participate in service-learning.

63 percent of the Fall 2024 entering cohort have opted in the Guided Pathways, which include various High-Impact Practices and more.

Enrollment: 2,207 (on-campus: 2,093; participating in an off-campus study program: 114)
Male: 50.2%; female: 49.8%
Domestic students of color: 21.3% (N=469)
International students: 14.1% (N=311)
Countries/Territories represented by international students: 64
States represented by domestic students: 40 states and the District of Columbia
Top five states of origin: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and Connecticut
Among domestic students: 73 percent are out-of-state.
Pell Grant recipients: 23%
First-generation college students: approximately 21%

Total Enrollment in the on-line master’s program in American History (offered in partnership with The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History): 713 (full-time: 7; part-time: 706)
Male: 48%; female: 52%

2022 graduating class: 98 percent were employed or attending graduate/professional school within a year after graduation

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