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"Leighton Jordan ’78 is among the
few who can claim they had a comparable effect on the college and the
community of Saratoga Springs. Jordan was a freshman when he and two friends
from the class of 1977 decided to start a polo club. The following year,
Skidmore men’s polo was competing with Yale, Cornell, Harvard, and
other top-ranking teams (Skidmore’s women’s polo players simultaneously
became intercollegiate champions)..." continue
| Information about Skidmore [find out more at cws.skidmore.edu] |
- Founded: 1903
- Location: Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
- News: Declared one of America's "New Ivies"
- Program: Four-year, private, nondenominational,
coed liberal arts Degrees: B.A., B.S., M.A.
(Master of Arts in Liberal Studies)
- Enrollment: Approximately 2,400 students, from
more than 40 states and 30 countries.
- Gender Mix: 41% men, 59% women
- Admission: Highly competitive; last year received
5,900 applications for a freshman class targeted at 636. 45% of
applicants were offered admission; 35% enrolled under Early Decision;
SAT Scores: median for last year’s admitted students was
1300
- Retention Rate: 91% (fall to fall)
- Calendar: Fall and Spring semesters, followed
by two optional five-week summer sessions and internship opportunities
- Faculty: 228 full-time and 11 part-time: 94%
of liberal arts and sciences faculty hold the doctoral or highest
degree in their fields
- Student-Faculty Ratio: 9 to 1
- Class Size: Average is 16; more than 90% of
all classes have fewer than 30 students, and fewer than 1% have
more than 50.
- Activities: 83 Clubs, 19 Athlectic Teams
- Library: 400,000 volumes, 1,500 journals and
periodicals, plus 650 online publications, 8,000 recordings, 130,000
slides on art and art history, interlibrary loan, U.S. Government
Documents Depository Library, and advanced information technology,
including secondgeneration Endeavor catalogue system.
- Computing Resources: 282 Mac and Windows PCs
in general purpose microcomputer rooms; 20 Sun workstations; 12
Silicon Graphics workstations; network connections, with Internet
access, in all residence hall rooms. The College has over 200
computers available in public computing facilities and an additional
300 computers available for student use within departmental labs.
- Preprofessional and Cooperative Programs: Premedicine,
child development and elementary education; M.A. in teaching with
Union College; 3/2 and 3+2 programs in engineering with Dartmouth
College and Clarkson University; 4+1 MBA program with Clarkson
University; and Accelerated
Summer Entry Plan at Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University
- Off-Campus Study: Foreign study programs in
China, England, France, India, and Spain; affiliations with other
institutions that take students for a semester or a year to more
than 30 international locations; Hudson-Mohawk Association of
Colleges and Universities; Washington Semester (12 week internship
in conjunction with American University); affiliation with Marine
Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass; and affiliation with
the Columbia University–Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona.
- Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; College and Departmental
honors; Periclean (our own academic honor society for juniors
and seniors); Skidmore Honors Forum; affliliations with national
honor societies in economics, foreign languages (French and Spanish),
government, history, mathematics, physics, psychology, and sociology.
- Costs 2007–2008: $36,860 tuition & fees; $9,836
room & board; Total $46,696. However; more than half of Skidmore's students receive some form of financial assitance.
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