Guilford College

Academic Programs

Just the Facts

We’re ranked among the best:

• Guilford has been named a Best Buy in the 2012 edition of The Fiske Guide to Colleges, which examines cost, academic ratings and the quality of student life on campus. Only 49 colleges nationally – 24 public and 25 private – are named Best Buys.
• The Princeton Review again included Guilford in its Best 376 Colleges guide, based on surveys of 122,000 college students. Guilford has been profiled in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide for each of the 20 years it has been published.
• The College has appeared in the Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges every year since 2010.
• On Forbes magazine’s “America’s Top Colleges” list, Guilford was ranked #239 overall of 650 colleges profiled; 231st among private colleges; 58th in the South; and 6th out of 19 North Carolina colleges appearing on the list.

Our students’ work is widely recognized:

• The Guilfordian tied for first place in its size category in the 2011-12 American Scholastic Press Association “Best Newspaper” contest.  The newspaper was also one of two from schools nationally in that category to win an “Outstanding Front Page” award.
  

We live our values:

• Guilford was awarded a “green” rating of 95 on a scale of 60-99 by The Princeton Review and was named one of the nation’s greenest colleges in the The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition.
  
• Guilford was named on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to America’s communities
• Guilford is one of only 23 colleges in the nation selected to participate in the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation’s Bonner Scholarship program, mission is to transform the lives of students and their campuses and communities through community service.

Special Programs

• Guilford College is a member of an area college/university consortium that enables students to take courses at seven other campuses without additional charge.
• Semester- and year-long study abroad programs are available in Ghana, China, England, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Ireland, Wales, the Netherlands and Washington D.C.
• Five cooperative pre-professional programs are available in association with various universities and one medical school.
• Internship programs offer practical experience in business, industries and nonprofit agencies.

Notable Campus Facilities

• Hege Library houses more than 240,000 books, periodicals and non-print media. Almost 2,000,000 are available to Guilford College students through a consortium of area colleges and universities (700,000 are available through the consortium libraries’ electronic database).
• Ragan-Brown Field House houses 64,000 square feet of indoor space that includes a weight room, cardio room and basketball courts.
• Cline Observatory is home to a 16-foot telescope. Guilford College also shares a 32-foot telescope off-campus with two other institutions.
• Guilford’s Forensics Institute has a Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 3-D laser scanner, which is used both on campus and off campus to assist local law enforcement and to train our students in the latest crime scene investigation.

Athletic Programs

• NCAA Division III: Old Dominion Athletic Conference
• Men’s varsity sports: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and track and field
• Women’s varsity sports: softball, basketball, cross country, volleyball, swimming, lacrosse, soccer, tennis and track and field
• Club sports: men’s rugby, women’s rugby, Ultimate Frisbee and cheerleading