ENROLLMENT
Full-Time:
260 men/390 women

FRESHMAN ADMISSION
PROFILE
Number who applied:
593
Number accepted:
468
Number enrolled:
176
Median SAT score:
V 590 M 530
Median ACT score:
25
Freshman Retention Rate:
84%

COSTS:
Tuition:
$28,230
Room and Board:
$8,670
Fees and Books
$1,675

FINANCIAL AID:
Freshmen receiving aid:
80%
Average financial aid package:
$17,000

FACULTY:
Full-time:
60
Part-time:
4
Ph.D.:
90%
Student-faculty ratio:
8:1

IN ADDITION
Antioch has long taken an alternative approach to education, a different yardstick to measure a meaningful life. Antioch College has changed the world of education and our alumni, in turn, have gone on to change the world.

This special liberal arts college seeks a special kind of student: the explorer, the community builder, the risk-taker, the different drummer. We seek students who want to be the authors of their own education, the architects of their own lives.

Our educational philosophy is driven not by the three R's but by the three C's: classroom, co-op, and community. At Antioch students are challenged in small classes by professors and fellow students. Students receive full written evaluations of progress at the end of each course, not empty letter grades. Students will encounter the level of quality and the opportunity to learn and create that has produced more winners of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships and more Ph.D.'s per capita than all but a handful of private colleges.

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Antioch College

College Description
Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college that blends practical work experience with classroom learning and participatory community governance.

Antioch's mission is to empower its students through an understanding of the force of knowledge and its use in action. The College's curriculum encourages both respect for established wisdom and also the courage to challenge it. Its cooperative education program provides essential life and work experience. Active participation in community governance offers actual responsibility for policy decisions that affect college life.

Antioch draws students from across the United States and around the world for its enrollment of approximately 650 students. The College is located in Yellow Springs and is 18 miles from Dayton and 60 miles from both Cincinnati and the state capital of Columbus. The village of Yellow Springs has a population of 4,600 and is not a typical small country town; it is a vital intellectual and cultural community that provides diverse activities, participatory arts organizations and political and social groups.

Antioch College was founded in 1852 by the abolitionist and educational leader Horace Mann. His parting words to a graduating class continue to animate the college, "be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

Academic Life
An Antioch education incorporates three principal elements; classroom learning, required work experience (co-op), and student participation in campus governance and community life. This academic program provides opportunities to apply the theories of the classroom to the realities of the work world. Plus, active campus self-governance gives Antioch students the opportunity to realize themselves as effective and forceful decision makers.

The Antioch curriculum is interdisciplinary and international in nature. Antioch College offers the Bachelor of Arts degree and the Bachelor of Science degree. Each of the eight majors offered are interdisciplinary - they are constructed from two or more of the traditional academic disciplines typically offered as a "major" - to allow students to understand complex problems and issues from a variety of perspectives. Most of these interdisciplinary majors offer "concentrations" in the more traditional academic disciplines, and all include introductory and capstone courses that reflect the interdisciplinary approach. Student performance is measured by narrative evaluations rather than letter grades.

Antioch encourages students to understand their roles as members of a vast and complex world. The College's curriculum reflects a commitment to representing the contributions of women, various ethnic groups and other countries and cultures. This commitment is achieved, in part through the cross-cultural experience requirement, during which students immerse themselves in a culture different from their own for a period of three to twelve months. This requirement may be fulfilled through co-op. Study abroad is optional, but approximately forty percent of students study abroad at some point.

Campus Life
Antioch's unusual and always lively Community Government (CG) epitomizes the College's democratic spirit. Everyone belongs to CG: students, faculty, administrators and staff. Every person can express views on any issue facing the community. Opportunities abound for participating in major decision-making bodies. Students have many ways to serve the community, both on and off campus. A representative listing of student organizations reflects Antioch's deep commitments to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice: the Anarchist Study Group, Animal Rights Alliance, Men of African Descent, The Lesbian/Gay Bisexual Center, the Womyn's Center, the Third World Alliance, ACT for Choice, the Artists Collective, Women of Color, Unidad!. Other popular outlets include the College newspaper (The Record), the Writer's Group, and the Language Hall Coffee Hour.

Facilities and Resources
The Olive Kettering Memorial Library houses 330,000 volumes and continues to expand its collection. A full range of on-line library services is available. Interlibrary loans are available through Antioch's membership in OhioLink, a statewide on-line academic library network. The College's Instructional Systems Department provides audiovisual facilities and services, which include a foreign language material collection; a video section, which contains a library of videotapes produced by students and faculty; equipment for loan to Antioch Community members; and a learning laboratory. The Outdoor Education Center, located adjacent to campus in the 1,000 acre Glen Helen nature preserve, furnishes sites for environmental programs, hiking and relaxation.

Financial Aid
Approximately 80% of all Antioch students receive financial assistance. The College awards over $5 million in scholarship and financial aid each year. Types of aid include scholarships, loans, Federal Work Study jobs, tuition grants, and Federal Pell and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity grants. Loans and FWS part-time jobs are included in all financial aid combination packages. Antioch uses the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for analysis of need. Transfer students are eligible for the same aid consideration as first-year students.

Admission Requirements
Antioch seeks students from diverse social, religious, socioeconomic, geographic, and philosophical backgrounds. In evaluating a candidate's qualifications, Antioch emphasizes qualities of openness to change, ability to work and think independently, and self-direction. A candidate's level of involvement in community activities is also a consideration. Personal qualities are as important as academic potential in admission consideration. Transfer students are welcome and encouraged to apply; each year roughly one third of entering students are transfers. International students are required to submit the results of their TOEFL examination.

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