Swarthmore Unspun

2 Degrees

Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Engineering

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Swarthmore students have received: 138 Fulbrights, 17 Goldwater Scholarships, 8 Marshalls, 78 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowships, 13 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for Younger Scholars, 231 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships, 28 Rhodes Scholarships, 21 Truman Fellowships, 66 Watson Fellowships, and 35 Woodrow Wilson Fellowships. There are also 5 Nobel Laureates, 16 Macarthur Genius Fellows, and numerous Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winners among Swarthmore alumni. Learn more about Fellowships and Prizes

Top Ten

Swarthmore is one of the nation's top 10 schools for placing students in the best medical, law, and business graduate schools in the country.

Size of Curriculum

With a curriculum unmatched among liberal arts colleges its size, the College offers more than 600 courses and more than 40 courses of study; undergraduate research opportunities in science, engineering, social science and the humanities along with cross-registration at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Graduates who attend graduate or professional school. With the most frequency, Swarthmore alumni earn their graduate degrees in all fields at the following universities: UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.

Making News

While doing the things that matter most to them from file sharing to voting rights; from video game design to teapot design; from launching the Genocide Intervention Network to launching War News Radio in the last year alone current Swarthmore students have found themselves featured in dozens of national newspapers, blogs, magazines, television and radio stations including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, MTV, The New Yorker, Macworld, NPR, ABC News, Philadelphia Magazine, coolhunting.com, and Daily Kos.

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With resources provided by the College, Swarthmore students run more than 100 clubs and organizations.

Rhodes to Science

Three of Swarthmore's five recent Rhodes winners reflect the College's excellence in science education. Jacob Krich '00 studied the physics of liquid crystals. Fellow physics major Matthew Landreman '03 studied the process called "magnetic reconnection" that occurs in plasmas. And Tafadzwa Muguwe '05 studied viruses. According to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, "Some science Ph.D.s, no doubt, are born. But others are made, and a visitor to [the Swarthmore] campus can practically watch them being hatched." Representing the social sciences, Rebecca Brubaker '06 studied conflict resolution in Cyprus and Andrew Sniderman '07 co-founded the Genocide Intervention Network.

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Swarthmore meets 100 percent of financial need of admitted students with scholarship awards. Beginning with the 2008-09 academic year all Swarthmore aid awards will be loan-free. More than half of all students (including international students) receive some need-based form of financial aid with awards up to $45,700.

One-of-a-Kind Honors

During the annual culmination of our honors program - believed to be the only undergraduate program of its type in the U.S. - over one hundred outside scholars descend on Swarthmore. They arrive to give the College's honors students their oral examinations. During these exams Swatties often have the chance to test their ideas with scholars whose books they have been reading. Each student meets one-on-one with four scholars in their field. With more and more students pursuing interdisciplinary work and individual research projects the program, originally modeled after the Oxford University tutorial system, has adapted to new directions in intellectual life in modern and innovative ways.

One-Time-Fee

A student activity fee paid with tuition covers all on-campus events for the year including weekly movies, parties, sporting events, concerts, plays, visiting writers, artists, speakers, and performers.