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 As one of the largest liberal arts colleges in the United States, Oberlin provides an excellent academic experience and the opportunity to study both broadly and deeply. Oberlin students are inspired by their own interests and desires. Many combine majors to create a foundation of understanding that prepares them well for a specific career or simply gives them avenues to explore throughout their personal and professional lifetimes. Whatever your intellectual passions and curiosities, Oberlin offers a dedicated and available faculty, an expansive curriculum, and the resources to match.
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The Fuel of Intellectual Fearlessness
The MacArthur Fellows "Genius" Award is one of the most coveted in the world. The program offers unrestricted fellowships to individuals who demonstrate "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits, and a marked capacity for self-direction." It is an award given to people who have shown potential to effect positive change for the benefit of society at large. In the last 25 years six Oberlin graduates have been MacArthur Fellows Award recipients for their ground breaking work across a wide range of endeavors, including microbial ecology, theater, environmental science, poetry, and the development of new technologies to help the physically disabled.
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 The commitment to musical excellence is palpable, in both past and present terms. As one of the oldest continuously running conservatories of music in the United States, Oberlin has established the highest standards for musical education. From the 200 Steinways and 150 practice rooms to the more than 400 solo and ensemble performances each year, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music provides top notch professional training and the opportunities to explore every dimension of musical excellence.
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The Highest Honor for the Most Daring of Souls
She has directed music dramas in major U.S. cities, written instrumental interludes, several short stories, poems, and an opera libretto. She is an accomplished violinist, a cofounder of an a capella quintet, and has been a singer in Oberlin's Collegium Musicum. And she is also the recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, one of the most prestigious awards bestowed to an American undergraduate. Composition major Mary E. Larew '05 personifies the Oberlin idea of fearless: a spirit of adventure focused by discipline and intent.
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 Oberlin is ranked first among liberal arts colleges in the number of graduates who go on to earn a PhD in the sciences. It is a position long held and directly attributable to programmatic opportunities for students to collaborate directly on research endeavors with some of the leading science educators in the United States. It is a position bolstered by a curriculum that is constantly expanding to address emerging areas of study and a new Science Center equipped with the latest technology.
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A Collaboration of Reward and Opportunity
Siobhan Wilson '98, a double degree student in biology and violin performance, and biology professor Yolanda Cruz undertook a long and intense research endeavor to study the Early Pregnancy Factor, a molecule used by mammalian embryos to signal their existence to a newly pregnant mother. Their effort was so significant and the results so impressive that Wilson was offered both a Fulbright Fellowship and a Churchill Scholarship. She chose the Churchill and earned a master's degree in pathology at Cambridge University. Today, she is midway through a nine-year joint MD/PhD program at the University of Wisconsin, one that Cruz helped her find.
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 The arts are central to life at Oberlin. While not all students are actively involved in artistic expression, they are all recipients of its benefits. From the programs and presence of the Conservatory of Music to the ongoing array of performances and exhibitions, the arts - music, theater, opera, dance, poetry, painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking - add a dynamism and luster to an already stimulating intellectual and social environment.
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Unmatched Access to Artistic Masters
Oberlin's art-rental program provides students with the opportunity to hang original works of art in their rooms--but not just any artworks. Each semester students vie to rent one or two pieces by artists such as Renoir, Picasso, Warhol, and Pollock, at a cost of just $5 each. Established in 1940, this special collection within the Allen Memorial Art Museum--one of the best art museums on any college campus in the country--now totals more than 400 works. The art-rental program embodies Oberlin's belief that the arts are an integral part of a liberal arts education.
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 Oberlin is a four-year, highly selective liberal arts college that is also home to one of America's finest conservatories. Large for a liberal arts college, Oberlin enrolls 2,800 students - 2,200 in the College of Arts and Sciences, 400 in the Conservatory of Music, and 200 working towards degrees in both divisions. Because of its size Oberlin is able to offer an exceptionally broad curriculum that allows students to explore their
interests and discover new ones. Many Oberlin graduates go on to receive
PhDs in their chosen fields.
Oberlin is located in the town of Oberlin, Ohio, a community of 8,600 about
35 miles from Cleveland and 30 minutes from the Cleveland International
Airport. The campus is known for its rich diversity of extracurricular
options, with over 100 student organizations, 400 concerts and recitals, and
60 performances each year.
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Although the Oberlin community is diverse, it is united in a belief that our
role as educators and students is to push our understanding to places that
ultimately may enable a better and fairer world. It is a philosophy backed
by conviction, a desire to embrace differences, and a willingness to take on
the complex, the difficult, and even the taboo. It is a community that is
fearless.
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 Community life at Oberlin is varied, not just allowing for differences but encouraging their exploration and sharing. From our themed housing to dozens of different clubs focused on multicultural understanding, Oberlin is united in the belief that multiple perspectives and contributions are essential to creating a better world.
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50 Years of Ground Breaking Cooperation
Their initiative defines fearless. More than 50 years ago, 11 upper-class students took a proposal before Oberlin's administration to establish an alternative way of providing student housing through a cooperative structure. The result, OSCA, the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association, has become the largest student-run program of its kind in the United States with 8 dining co-ops, 4 housing co-ops, and a total of 630 members.
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 A liberal arts education today requires a global view and the opportunity to personally experience different cultures and economies. That's why all Oberlin students, regardless of major, have the chance to spend a semester away from campus. Many students tap into winter term, the four weeks of January, to study a subject intensively or explore new interests in a different locale. The combination of study abroad, a student population from nearly 50 countries, and a curricular commitment to global studies makes the Oberlin experience an international one.
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The Chance to See Democracy Take Hold
Winter term brought Miranda Pax '06 and Victoria Horrock '06 to the gates of Rabat, Morocco's capital and the doorway to a constitutional monarchy that held parliamentary elections for just the second time since its founding centuries before. Motivated by a desire to explore public-interest legal issues in a developing country and participate in the American Bar Association's Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, the two Oberlin seniors were able to see first-hand the complexities and challenges of a government and society in transition.
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 Oberlin believes that we are all part of the natural world and as such we have a responsibility to understand it and provide stewardship of it. At Oberlin the study of the environment is not a theoretical undertaking but an integrating course of study that connects virtually all disciplines throughout the College, from politics to chemistry to art. The Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies - a living laboratory for the emerging field of ecological design - reflects Oberlin's environmental studies leadership position among liberal arts colleges.
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Applying the Classroom to the Campus
The study of energy measurement and a desire to see the benefits in real terms prompted Vladislav Shunturov '05 and Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies John Petersen to design a practical energy monitoring system for the Oberlin residence halls. The study successfully demonstrated that low-cost resource use feedback systems motivate students to exhibit substantial short-term reductions in energy and water use in dormitories. A winner of the Environmental Protection Agency's People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability last year, Shunturov has since partnered with several other Oberlin graduates and an Oberlin professor to launch an energy-tracking start up.
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 A history of achievement in athletics coupled with a commitment to sports as an important part of the Oberlin experience provides all students with the opportunity to participate and compete at the highest levels of their ability. From the 22 Division III varsity sports to the numerous intramural and club programs, Oberlin's athletic offerings and facilities are extensive and available to all.
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