Guilford College

Academic Programs

Just the Facts

We’re ranked among the best:

• Listed among the nation’s “100 Best Value Colleges” by The Princeton Review
• Named one of America’s 25 “Hottest Colleges” in Kaplan/Newsweek’s “How To Get Into College Guide”
• Listed as one of only 40 schools in Colleges That Change Lives, by Loren Pope, former New York Times education editor
• Featured in The Unofficial Unbiased Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges, The Princeton Review’s 2010 edition of America’s Best 371 Colleges, and Harvard Schmarvard

Our students’ work is widely recognized:

• The Guilfordian, our weekly student newspaper, was awarded 1^st Place with Special Merit for 2009-2010 by the American Scholastic Press Association
• The Princeton Review ranks Guilford’s campus radio station, WQFS 90.9 FM, as the eleventh best among all colleges and universities in the United States

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 Guide to 286 Green Colleges
• 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/away programs are available in over 75 countries including Ghana, China, England, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Scotland, Spain, Ireland, Wales, the Netherlands, Mexico 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.
• The Forensic Biology department is home to a new Leica 3-D ScanStation for area law enforcement agencies.

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

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