Last year Oberlin received a record number of applications. Prospective students and their parents are visiting campus in record numbers. Given all the focus on numbers, I thought you might like to learn more about Oberlin... by the numbers.
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— zero core curriculum
— zero fraternities or sororities
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— 1st college to adopt policy to admit students of color and 1st coed college
— ranked #1 in alumni who go on to earn a PhD from predominately undergraduate liberal arts colleges
— 1st of its kind Environmental Studies building
— First-Year Seminar Program
— 1 supercomputer
— 1 radio station
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—2nd largest collection of Steinway pianos (the factory is #1)
— 2 Early Decision opportunities
— 2 divisions (College of Arts and Sciences, Conservatory of Music)
— Double degree program
— 2 operas annually
— 22 varsity sport teams; 25 foot climbing wall; 22 playing and practice fields
— 2800 students (2200 Arts & Sciences, 400 Conservatory, 200 Double Degree); 25% of the entering class are American ethnic minorities
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— 3 Winter Term projects required
— 3 Nobel Prize winners in the sciences
— 3 academic divisions (arts & humanities, science & mathematics, social sciences)
— NCAA Division III athletics
— 30 minutes from Cleveland airport and 35 minutes from Cleveland
— 3D images can seen with neuroscience's confocal microscope
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— 440 acre campus
— 47 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences
— 4 libraries (main, music, art, science)
— about 40% of students study abroad
— 40+ theater and dance productions annually
— 4 co-op residence halls
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— one of the top 5 college art museums in the US
— $5 to rent a Picasso, Rembrandt, Warhol for a semester
— 5 years to earn the double degree
— 5 performance halls
— students come from all 50 states
— 500+ concerts on campus annually
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— 66% of students receive some form of financial aid]
— 600+ members in the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
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— 7 MacArthur "Genius" award recipients
— 70% of classes have fewer than 20 students
— 7% international students
— 7 students spending the academic year abroad as Fulbright Fellows
— 75% of Oberlin students engage in some form of volunteerism during their time at Oberlin
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— 8 majors in the Conservatory of Music (with 20 private study areas)
— 80%+ students live on campus
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— 9% of students from Ohio
— 9 program halls including cultural housing and language study
— 9-9-9 distribution requirement
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— 10th consecutive year the Peace Corps named Oberlin as a top producing college
— a perfect 10 for the life of the mind
