Carleton College
Carleton College is a non-denominational, coeducational college located in Northfield, Minnesota specializing in a liberal arts education. The U.S. News and World Report ranked Carleton College as number eight in liberal arts education in the United States in 2009.
It was founded on 14 November 1866 by the Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches as Northfield College. The name was later changed to Carleton College in honor of William Carleton of Charlestown, Massachusetts who donated $50,000 to the start-up institution in 1871.
It is enclosed in a 1,040-acre campus including an 880-acre botanical garden known as the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum. The two nearest cities to Carleton College are St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Operating on a trimester calendar (three ten-week terms), it offers thirty-seven majors and fifteen minors in the arts, humanities, natural and social sciences.
Since it opened its doors to its first students in 1870, it currently enrolls more than 1,900 undergraduate students from forty-nine states and forty-five countries more than ninety percent of whom live on campus. Student demographics are nearly even at fifty-three percent women and forty-seven percent men.
Employing more than 190 full-time faculty members, Carleton College maintains an average class size of 18 students yielding a student to faculty ratio of only 9:1.
Annual tuition for school year 2008-2009 costs a total of $48,039.00: tuition – $37,845.00; room – $5,223.00; full board (20-meal plan) -$4,770.00; and student activity fee $201.00.
Carleton College is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1913 and participates in the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and University and College Accountability Network.
For more information about admissions, financial aid and educational opportunities like semester abroad or online classes, please contact Carleton College.
