Carleton College

Carleton Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1866. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,045, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 955 acres. It utilizes a trimester-based bookish calendar. Carleton College's baronial in the 2015 copy of Best Colleges is National Advanced Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $47,736 (2014-15).
Carleton Academy is amid in the celebrated river boondocks of Northfield, Minn. The Carleton Knights accept 19 varsity able-bodied teams aggressive in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Able-bodied Conference.

 Carleton offers added than 170 apprentice organizations, abounding with artistic names, including the Carleton Juggling F.I.S.H., the One Knight Stands cabaret affiliation and the Knightingales a cappella group, to name a few. Civil sports like quidditch, broomball, dodgeball and beach volleyball are aswell accepted a part of students. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, and about 90 percent of acceptance accept to abide on campus in one of the abode halls, aggregate absorption houses or campus townhouses.


Carleton Academy offers abutting to 40 undergraduate majors. The academy has abounding altered traditions, including burglary and periodically announcement a adhesive apprehension of the German artist Friedrich Schiller that dates aback to the 1950s. A newer attitude is the "Silent Ball Party" during abstraction canicule above-mentioned to finals if acceptance don headphones and ball calm in the library. The Goodsell Observatory on Carleton’s campus houses three celebrated telescopes as able-bodied as several avant-garde telescopes accessible for classes and accessible houses. Notable alumni cover Anthony Downs, columnist of "An Economic Theory of Democracy," and aloft Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler.

Carleton Academy is a clandestine advanced arts academy amid in the celebrated river boondocks of Northfield, Minn., 40 afar south of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Best accepted for its bookish arete and affable campus community, Carleton offers 33 majors and 15 concentrations in the arts, humanities, accustomed sciences, and amusing sciences. Carleton's apprentice physique is awfully difficult to categorize, but one chat to call it adeptness be curious. "Carls" are an intellectually clamorous accumulation that access acquirements with enthusiasm, energy, and a abnormally Carleton cast of playfulness. Broad-ranging interests are common, and friendships assume to cantankerous all acceptable boundaries. As acceptance and alumni will acquaint you, there's just something altered about Carleton. Maybe it's the admeasurement (about 2,000 students). Or maybe it's the ceaseless adjacency of so abounding artistic minds (95 percent of acceptance reside on campus). Whatever the reason, Carleton is a abode area acceptance are likelier to abet than compete. The Academy supports added than 100 apprentice organizations, and appearance abundant a capella articulate groups, ball troupes, ball groups and ball groups. The Academy aswell sponsors 22 varsity sports, additional a all-inclusive club and civil sports arena with about 90 percent of the apprentice physique partaking at a advanced spectrum of adeptness levels.

 Carleton's adroitness associates are awful admired scholars, researchers, and practitioners in their fields. But, aloft all, their aboriginal antecedence is teaching. A student-faculty arrangement of 9 to 1 ensures that Carleton acceptance accept affluence of befalling for alternation with their professors. Carleton acceptance appear from 50 states and 42 added countries. Multicultural acceptance annual for 24 percent of Carleton's 2,000 students. Added than bisected of all acceptance accept need-based banking aid and about 80 percent authority jobs on campus. Carleton ranks third a part of all baccalaureate-level colleges in the amount of its acceptance awarded celebrated National Science Foundation Fellowships for alum study. The Academy has had 18 Rhodes Scholars, and 87 Fulbrights accept been awarded to acceptance and alumni back 2000. The Center for Association and Civic Assurance encourages acceptance to amalgamate acceptable advance account with bookish assurance in the community. Opportunities abound for internships, externships, summer analysis with faculty, and career analysis with alumni. Added than 70 percent of the apprentice citizenry participates in off-campus studies. Carleton brings nationally and internationally acclaimed guests to campus as visiting adroitness and for account convocations, which are chargeless and accessible to the public. Guests accept included announcer and presidential adviser David Gergen; co-founder of Politico and Carleton trustee John Harris; Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton; and aloft U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.N.

 Zalmay Khalilzad. Carleton appearance the 880-acre Cowling Arboretum (known as "the Arb") that provides a arrangement of walking, running, and cross-country skiing trails adjoining to the Cannon River and east of the campus. The Arb was called a part of the top 10 places to run in the country by Runner's World magazine. The Academy aswell has one of the better undergraduate libraries in the United States, as able-bodied as a science circuitous that consists of a Center for Mathematics and Computing, and barrio for physics and psychology, biology, and allure and geology. Opened in 2011, the Weitz Center for Adroitness is a alive lab for adroitness area the arts bisect with all disciplines. An 80,000 square-foot Amusement Center opened in 2000, giving Carls a advanced contest and amusement facility. Carleton graduates can be begin in the beginning of about every able field, and aural ten years of graduating, over 80 percent of alumni go on to top alum and able schools beyond the country.