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Kenyon College

Gambier, Ohio

https://www.kenyon.edu

#135 National Colleges

34.09% Admission Rate
Moderately Selective

1,734 Undergraduates Enrolled

  • Private nonprofit
  • Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus
  • Four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in
  • Four-year, small, highly residential


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Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is set in a rural setting and uses a semester-based academic calendar. The campus is home to the Brown Family Environmental Center (BFEC), which has over 380 acres and hosts seven different ecosystems. The BFEC also provides academic opportunities including the Summer Science Scholars program. There are more than 120 student clubs and organizations on campus, including 12 fraternities and sororities. Kenyon athletes are called Lords and Ladies which compete in the NCAA Division III North Coast Athletic Conference.

Notable alumni include six Rhodes Scholars, 10 Marshall Scholarship winners, 12 Truman Scholarship winners, and numerous Watson Fellowship holders and Fulbright scholarship recipients. Famous graduates include U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis, biologist Harvey Lodish, actors Josh Radnor, Paul Newman, and Allison Janney, Marquette University basketball coach Shaka Smart, chemist Carl Djerassi, cartoonist Bill Watterson, and writers John Green, Robert Lowell, and E. L. Doctorow.


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Location

City
Gambier, Ohio

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Locale
Town: Distant (in urban cluster more than 10 miles and up to 35 miles from an urbanized area)

Region
Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

Academics

Predominant Degree Awarded
Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting

Highest Degree Awarded
Bachelor's degree

Most Popular Fields

Field % Students
Social Sciences 24.2%
Visual And Performing Arts 13.1%
Biological And Biomedical Sciences 12.9%
English Language And Literature/Letters 11.5%
Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics 6.2%
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 6.0%
Psychology 5.5%
History 4.8%
Physical Sciences 4.4%
Philosophy And Religious Studies 4.2%
Mathematics And Statistics 4.2%
Natural Resources And Conservation 2.8%
Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, And Group Studies 0.2%

Cost

Tuition
$58,570.00

Percentage Students Receiving Aid
27.92%

Average Net Cost After Aid
$32,897.00

Admissions

SAT Scores

1388 Composite Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 740 685 630
Verbal 720 680 640

ACT Scores

31 Cumulative Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 31 29 26
English 35 32 29