College of the Atlantic

Carnegie Foundation Classification

Baccalaureate Colleges — Arts & Sciences

General Characteristics

Highest offering	Master's degree
Calendar System	Trimester
Years of college work required	N/A
Variable Tuition

Special Learning Opportunities

Distance Learning
ROTC — Army / Navy / Air Force	— / /
Study Abroad
Weekend College
Teacher Certification

College of the Atlantic Academics

There’s never a reason to feel alone in your studies either, since there are academic support services like Reduced Course Load, Remedial Instruction, Study Skills Assistance, Tutoring and Writing Center. Further, when any student is looking for some counseling or other types of support, Alcohol/Substance Abuse Counseling, Career Counseling, Employment Service, Financial Aid Counseling, Freshman Orientation Program, Health Services, Minority Student Services, Personal Counseling and Placement Service can help. College of the Atlantic is unique in its study options. The university has disability services as well, so be sure to inquire about them if needed. In particular, the university has a Independent Study, Internships, Semester At Sea, Student-Designed Major, Study Abroad and Teacher Certification.

The following are the types of degrees and majors offered at College of the Atlantic.

Education:

Biology Teacher Education, Elementary Education, Social Studies Teacher Education

Popular majors:

one hundred percent other

Social Sciences:

Social Sciences – General

Biological and Biomedical Sciences:

Botany, Ecology, Marine/Aquatic Biology, Zoology

School of Visual and Performing Arts:

Arts – General, Fine/Studio Arts, Music – General Performance

Additionally, for international students, the application fee is 45. Are you an international student? The Fall application deadline for international students is the 15th of February.

College of the Atlantic Admissions

This school requires an application fee consisting of forty-five dollars regular application fee, forty-five dollars out-of-state application fee, forty-five dollars online application fee and point zero . Transfer student are not ignored. An instance of this, there were twenty-three total number of transfer students who applied and eighteen total number of transfer students who were admitted. Admission policy is currently Percent applicants admitted: 66% and Percent of students who return for sophomore year: 86%. Remember that this can change at any time.

The regular application is due the 15th of February. If you wish to apply early, your application will be do no later than the 1st of December, of which you should hear back from the university no later than the 15th of December. Regardless of which application you submit, this school will notify you by the 1st of April. Will you make it in time? Make sure to know when all the due dates and deadlines take place. SAT and ACT score reports are very important, so you will want to check on the specific dates with the university. Further, For all student applicants, the Fall application deadline is the 15th of February. If you are a transfer student, you will be notified of your acceptance by the 25th of April. the SAT subject section score due date was not reported. It is also very important to submit financial aid applications as quickly as possible, and make sure they are in by the 15th of February.

College of the Atlantic Financial Aid

Financial aid distribution is at seventy-five percent scholarships per grants and twenty-five percent loans per jobs. Financial aid forms are FAFSA, Institution’s own financial aid form and Noncustodial (divorced/separated) Parents Statement. If you are not a need based student, non-need distribution for financial aid is determined by Academics and Leadership. Similarly, need based financial aid distribution is determined through Academics. Financial aid for students is readily accessible at this school.

College of the Atlantic Students

The university is a Private, Liberal Arts College, Four-year, Coed, where 66 percent of the applicants were admitted and Regionally accredited. Furthermore, the student body consists of twenty-eight percent in-state students, seventy-two percent out-of-state students, one percent part-time students, sixty-three percent women, thirty-seven percent men, one percent asian per pacific islander, two percent hispanic, twenty-six percent white per non-hispanic, thirteen percent non-resident alien, fifty-seven percent race per ethnicity unreported, thirty-six percent in top 10th of graduating class, seventy-six percent in top quarter of graduating class, ninety-five percent in top half of graduating class, thirty-seven percent had h.s. gpa of 3.75 and higher, twenty-eight percent had h.s. gpa between 3.5 and 3.74, sixteen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.25 and 3.49, fourteen percent had h.s. gpa between 3.0 and 3.24 and five percent had h.s. gpa between 2.5 and 2.99. College of the Atlantic offers Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. The school’s size is approximately two hundred and ninety-five degree-seeking undergrads, eighty-two first-time degree-seeking freshmen and eight graduate enrollment. Furthermore, it is part of an Rural setting, Small town (2,500 – 9,999) and Residential campus.

This school features the Rural setting, Small town (2,500 – 9,999) and Residential campus. In general, the school is located 300 miles from Boston, 50 miles from Bangor.Again, the university has many unique facilites such as natural history museum, herbarium, greenhouse, pier, research boat, organic farm, island research station. Students should note the housing policies: First-Year Students Guaranteed On-Campus Housing, one hundred percent of first-year students live in college housing, forty percent of all undergraduates live in college housing, Coed Housing, Special Housing For Disabled Students, Wellness housing (alcohol/drug/smoke-free), one-MAY deadline for housing deposit, one hundred and fifty dollars amount of housing deposit, point zero , , Pets allowed in dorm rooms and First-time first-year students allowed to have car.

College of the Atlantic Athletics

The following sports can be found here:

• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Soccer
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Softball
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Table_tennis
• Men’s Intramural and Women’s Intramural Volleyball