Our primary aim at Beloit College is to provide a learning and living environment dedicated to the cultivation of liberally educated persons. We believe that a liberally educated person should achieve a significant depth of understanding in at least one academic discipline, but we also encourage our students to become more than narrow specialists. We regard a liberally educated person as one who is at home in the world of ideas and who values learning for its own sake. She or he is a person whose life is enriched by new interests, new sensitivities, and new modes of thought acquired through broad exposure to the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics.
Moreover, we at Beloit believe that a liberally educated person should be prepared for intelligent and responsible participation in the contemporary world of action. We offer a broad variety of courses in which we ask students to think carefully and communicate clearly about fundamental questions concerning aesthetic, ethical, and social values. We emphasize international studies and interdisciplinary studies in our curriculum, and we encourage every student to include an applied or experiential dimension in his or her educational program. We want our students to become persons whose thinking unites reason and knowledge with feeling, sympathy, and commitment. Our aim is to help our students become citizens who make critical and productive connections between thought and action in all aspects of their lives.
Beloit College is a selective, private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA, and a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Its current president is John Burris (resigning as of June 30, 2008), and its enrollment stands at roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. On April 25, 2008 the Board of Trustees appointed former health industry executive and alumnus Dick Niemiec as the College's interim president while the official presidential search takes place. The campus is notable for numerous prehistoric Indian mounds. It is also among the top 20 selective liberal arts colleges in proportion of graduates obtaining doctoral degrees.
Beloit College, the first post secondary education institution in Wisconsin, was founded by a group called Friends for Education, which was started by seven pioneers from New England who agreed that a college needed to be established soon after arrival in Wisconsin Territory. The group raised funds for a college to be founded in their new town and convinced the territorial legislature to enact their charter for Beloit College into law on February 2, 1846. The first building for the college (called Middle College) was built in 1847, and it remains in operation today. Classes began in the fall of 1847, and the college's first degrees were awarded in 1851.
The first president of Beloit was a Yale University graduate named Aaron Lucius Chapin, who served as president from December of 1849 until 1886, and under whose direction the college became widely known for scholastic achievement and for its willingness to experiment with new curricular approaches. The college remained very small for almost its entire first century with the enrollment only topping 1,000 students with the influx of World War II veterans in 1945-1946. The "Beloit Plan", a year-round curriculum introduced in 1964, comprising three full terms and a "field term" of off-campus study, brought the college increased national attention. The trustees decided to return to the two semester program in 1978.
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| Percent of Students International: | 6% |
| On-Campus Housing Available: | Yes |
| Percent of Students Living On-Campus: | 82% |
| Freshman Students Required to Live on Campus: | Yes |
| Member of: | NCAA |
| Sports Include: |
Football (Midwest Conference) Basketball (Midwest Conference) Baseball (Midwest Conference) Track (Midwest Conference) |
| Tuition & Fees (undergraduate) | Expenses | ||
Published Tuition and Fees: |
$ 26,884 | ||
Average Tuition for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 26,664 | ||
Required Fees for Full-Time Undergrads: |
$ 220 | ||
| Financial Aid | Avg. Amount Received | % of Students Receiving Aid | |
Federal Grants: |
$ 3,181 | 15% | |
State and Local Grants: |
$ 2,035 | 12% | |
Institutional Grants: |
$ 13,680 | 85% | |
Student Loans: |
$ 4,128 | 63% | |
Any Aid: |
91% |
| Acceptance Rate: | 64% (Selective) |
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| SAT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting SAT Scores: | 55% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Verbal: 580, Math: 560 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Verbal: 700, Math: 660 |
| ACT Scores: | |
| % of Students Submitting ACT Scores: | 70% |
| Bottom 25th Percentile: | Composite: 25, Verbal: 24, Math: 23 |
| Top 75th Percentile: | Composite: 29, Verbal: 31, Math: 28 |
| Application Fee: | $ 35.00 |
| Formal Demonstration of Competencies: | Not Required |
| High School Diploma or Equivalent: | Required |
| High School GPA: | Required |
| High School Rank: | Required |
| High School Record: | Required |
| Recommendations: | Required |
| TOEFL: | Required |
| Test Scores: | Required |
