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"There are precious few public institutions where the faculty feels as close to the students or values them as highly."
-Loren Pope
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CHARACTER |
- A public liberal arts college founded in 1969. The foundation of its curriculum is based on team-teaching and collaborative learning.
- All majors and academic pathways are student-designed.
- Faculty at Evergreen assess a student's learning and academic progress in narrative evaluations rather than grades.
- Olympia is halfway between metropolitan Seattle and Portland, Oregon, and an hour from Mt. Rainier and the Olympic mountains.
- The 1,000 forested-acre campus is located on the southernmost beaches of Puget Sound.
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WORTH NOTING |
- U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges
has ranked Evergreen as a "Top College for Learning Communities"
and for "First-Year Experiences for Freshmen," 2003-2010.
- Featured in Yahoo Finance (2009), Evergreen was noted as a college offering "prestige without the price."
- Evergreen's seniors and first-year students scored in the 90th percentile
for the Active and Collaborative Learning benchmark compared to all
Baccalaureate-Liberal Arts Colleges in the National
Survey of Student Engagement.
- In partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, The Princeton Review selected Evergreen as one the highest rated colleges in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 286 Green Colleges.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that The Evergreen State College was the 2008-09 Individual Conference Champion for purchasing more green power than any other school in the Cascade Collegiate Conference.
- Evergreen was included in the G.I. Jobs 2011 College List of Military Friendly Schools as one of the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools who are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students.
- The Sierra Club 2010 top 20 “Cool Schools” rated Evergreen for our efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainability.
- Evergreen was praised in top list for green efforts for the third consecutive year.
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ENROLLMENT |
- 4,833 undergraduate students
- 23:1 student-to-faculty instructional ratio
- Approximately 33% of students from out of state
- 18% of students are from underrepresented minority groups
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FACULTY & ACADEMICS |
- 75% of full-time faculty hold the most advanced degree in their
field; there are no teaching assistants.
- 50% of full-time faculty are female
- 23% of full-time faculty are faculty of color
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TUITION & FEES |
- Comprehensive In-State Fee: $19,509
- Comprehensive Out-of-State Fee: $30,969
- 74% of students receive financial assistance.
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CAMPUS LIFE |
- Apartment-style campus housing with a variety of living spaces.
- More than 50 student organizations, a student newspaper, and community radio station.
- Students have access to equipment and facilities often reserved for graduate students elsewhere.
- NAIA Region I, Cascade Collegiate Conference
- 20 acres of playing fields and an 11-lane Olympic pool; indoor and outdoor climbing walls and ropes course
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ACADEMIC PROFILE OF ENTERING CLASS |
- Middle 50% SAT composite score: 1100
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