Goucher College

Goucher College is a U.S. coeducational liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson, on a 287 acre (1.2 km²) campus. The school has approximately 1,250 students studying in 33 undergraduate subjects and about 1000 students studying in graduate subjects. It was one of the first colleges to embrace internships and allow its students to take a more individualized approach. In 2004, Newsweek called Goucher the college with the happiest students.

Campus Demographics

Female students are still in the majority on the undergraduate level at about 65%, a vestage from Goucher's days as a womens-only college. This number is even higher at the graduate level where almost 80% of the students are female. About 11.5% of the undergraduate population are either African-American, Asian, Hispanic or Native-American. At the graduate level the number is 14%. Two of the most popular majors are Communications and Psychology. Politically most students lean towards the Democratic side of the spectrum. http://www.goucher.edu/institutionalresearch/index.cfm:Cite_sources U.S. News and World Report ranked Goucher college #94 in its annual rankings of national liberal arts colleges, tied with Augustana College in Illinois, Hanover College in Indiana, Hope College in Michigan, Washington and Jefferson in Pennsylvania, and Wells College in Upstate New York. Its most well-known faculty members include Dr. Jean Harvey and Dr. Julie Jeffery of the History Department, President Sanford Ungar, and the writer Madison Smartt Bell, who oversees its creative writing department.

Related Topics:
African-American - Asian - Hispanic - Native-American - Communications - Psychology

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