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| The College Founded: 1903 Location: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Program: Four-year, private, nondenominational, coed, liberal arts Degrees: B.A., B.S., M.A. (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) Degree Programs: 65 Top Majors: Business, English, Art, Psychology, Government, Foreign Language, Biology Double Majors: 17% of Class of 2008 Minors: 30% of Class of 2008 | The Students Enrollment on campus: 2,400 students, from 44 states and 32 countries Gender Mix: 40% men, 60% women Selectivity: Admission offered to 28% of applicants for the Class of 2012 Financial Aid: 40% of students Median SAT/ACT/Admitted Students of Fall 08: SAT 1320 ACT 29 Academic Calendar: Spring and Fall Semesters, optional Summer Terms Retention (1st to 2nd year): 94% Graduation Rate: 82% (4 years), 80% (6 years) | |
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| General (2007-2008) On Campus Housing: 100% of freshmen and 82% of students overall Athletics: NCAA Division III Liberty League, 19 intercollegiate sports; club sports and intramurals; fitness and recreation Costs 2007–2008: $38,888 tuition; $6136 room; $4,242 board; $734 required fees. Total $50,000. Endowment: $296 million | The Classroom Full-time Faculty 07-08: 241, 82% hold the doctoral or highest degree in their fields Student-Faculty Ratio: 9 to 1 Average Class Size: 17 Study Abroad: 60% of students, more than 30 locations | |
Skidmore College—Did you Know?
- Skidmore was named in 2007 by the Newsweek/Kaplan College Guide as one of America’s “25 New Ivies.”
- Originally located in downtown Saratoga Springs, Skidmore built an entirely new campus in the 1960s.
- Each fall, 36 students begin their freshman year in the London First-Year Experience program.
- Salmagundi, the internationally acclaimed quarterly journal of humanities and social sciences, has been published at Skidmore since 1969.
- Skidmore has two merit-based scholarships: the Filene Music Scholarship and the Porter Presidential Scholarship in Science and Mathematics.
- Skidmore sponsors its own foreign study programs in China, England, France, India, and Spain.
- The College has no fraternities or sororities.
- The Princeton Review consistently ranks WSPN (91.1 FM) among the nation’s top college radio stations.
- Scribner Library holdings include one of the extremely limited editions of Edward Curtis' The North American Indian, an epic work comprising of 20 volumes of illustrated text and twenty portfolios of large-size photogravures.
- Skidmore’s dramatic Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, opened in 2000, hosts public events on its rooftop patio, including a Friday evening concert series during the summer.
- Students can cook their own meals in the expansive new dining hall, or graze food stations offering, international foods, stone-hearth pizza, homemade pasta, diner classics, vegetarian and vegan and deli and bakery.
- Students voted in 1981 to change the College’s athletic mascot to the Thoroughbred.
- The Thoroughbred Society, honoring varsity student-athletes GPA’s of 3.67 or higher, inducted 70 members for fall 2006, including seven who had achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA.
