Colby College

Colby College, founded in 1813, is one of the nation's oldest independent liberal arts colleges. Its 714 acre (2.9 km²) campus is located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine. One thousand, eight hundred students from more than 60 countries attend the College. Colby offers 53 major fields of study, and uses project-based learning. Volunteer programs and service-learning take many students into the surrounding community. More than two thirds of Colby students participate in study-abroad programs.

Famous alumni

• Billy Bush 1994, TV personality and nephew of President George H. W. Bush
• Benjamin F. Butler 1838, Civil War general, Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, candidate for President
• Robert Diamond 1973, CEO of Barclays Capital, and Chairman of Barclays Global Investors
• Doris Kearns Goodwin 1964, presidential scholar and historian
• Linda Greenlaw, 1983, Author of Hungry Ocean (captain of the Hannah Boden, sister ship to the Andrea Gail which went down in "The Perfect Storm" 1991)
• Dan Harris, 1993, ABC News Correspondent
• Peter Hart 1964, founder of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a leading political polling organization
• Isaac Smith Kalloch 1852, Baptist minister, founder and first president of Ottawa University, mayor of San Francisco, California
• Author David Barr Kirtley 2000
• Elijah P. Lovejoy 1826, abolitionist
• Harold Calvin Marston Morse 1914, mathematician
• Robert B. Parker 1954, author of the Spenser detective novels
• Stuart Rothenberg 1970, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, CNN Political Analyst, and syndicated columnist
• Former Florida governor Marcellus L. Sterns also attended Colby before leaving to fight in the American Civil War
• Historian Alan Taylor 1977
• Amy Walter 1990, House correspondent for the Cook Political Report