Norwich University

Summary

Quick Stats

Norwich University,
Northfield, VT 05663

Phone: (800) 468-6679

Tuition:

$30,194 tuition and fees

Students:

2,279 enrolled

Admissions:

rolling application deadline

rolling accepted

Norwich University is a private institution that was founded in 1819. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 2,279, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 1,200 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Norwich University's ranking in the 2012 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (North), 60. Its tuition and fees are $30,194 (2011-12).

School mission (as provided by the school):

Vision: Norwich University will be a learning community, American in character yet global in perspective, engaged in personal and intellectual transformation and dedicated to knowledge, mutual respect, creativity and service. Mission: To give our youth an education that shall be American in character- to enable them to act as well as to think-to execute as well as to conceive- to tolerate all opinions when reason is left free to combat them- to make moral, patriotic, efficient, and useful citizens, and to qualify them for all those high responsibilities resting upon a citizen of this free republic.

General Information

School type - private, coed college

Year founded - 1819

Religious affiliation - N/A

Academic calendar - semester

Setting - rural

2010 Endowment - $148,450,000

Applying

Selectivity - selective

Fall 2010 acceptance rate - 67%

Application deadline - rolling

SAT/ACT scores must be received by - February 1

Academic Life

Class sizes - Class sizes

Student-faculty ratio - 12:1

4-year graduation rate - 43% - Medium

Five most popular majors for 2010 graduates -

Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration 19%
Architecture 7%
History, General 6%
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse 6%
Business Administration, Management and Operations, Other 5%