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 -
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%