www.lafayette.edu - A national leader in student research and graduate career success, Lafayette offers university-sized resources at a student-centered liberal arts college.
One of America’s oldest colleges, Lafayette has roughly 2,400 students and more than 200 full-time faculty. With 47 majors in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering; 250 student organizations; and an amazing campus, rich in academic, residential, and recreational facilities, Lafayette offers all the benefits of larger schools with the student-centered approach of a small, undergraduate college.
In an environment that fosters the free exchange of ideas, Lafayette College seeks to nurture the inquiring mind and to integrate intellectual, social, and personal growth. The College strives to develop students’ skills of critical thinking, verbal communication, and quantitative reasoning and their capacity for creative endeavor; it encourages students to examine the traditions of their own culture and those of other; to develop systems of values that include an understanding of personal, social, and professional responsibility; and to regard education as an indispensable, life-long process.
