Introduction
There is a little known theory about Lafayette. It doesn
There is a little known theory about Lafayette. It doesn
| Overall Score (about) | 97.5 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $71,270 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 32 / 1435 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 10 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 93% / N/A |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 2,642 |
To fully appreciate Lafayette, you really need to take advantage of all that the faculty has to offer. One of the greatest gifts that the faculty has given is student focused, student-directed learning. Lafayette is not about boring lectures and unavailable professors. Rather, Lafayette has built a strong reputation in the liberal arts, sciences, and engineering, because of its focus on the student. This unusual combination of strengths continues to define Lafayette
There are hundreds of small liberal arts colleges sprinkled across the Northeast. For a long time the reputation of Lafayette was that the college was just one of the many schools to offer a solid academic experience on a beautiful campus. But over the past few years, Lafayette has broken away from that pack, and its national reputation has begun to truly represent the college
There is really no way around saying this: Lafayette is expensive, more than $40,000 a year. But that doesn
One of the best things about Lafayette is how responsive the college is to meeting students
Student Enrollment Demographics
Student Graduation Demographics
Most recently, Lafayette completed construction of the new $35 million Allan P. Kirby Sports Center. In addition to the already existing varsity sports area, the construction adds an additional 110,000 square feet for recreational sports. The new intramural area boasts two indoor basketball courts, an elevated jogging track, an indoor inline skating rink, six-lane indoor pool, thirty cardiovascular machines, spacious weightlifting area, a thirty-five-foot rock climbing wall, six racquetball courts, and a caf
The Lafayette magic follows students even after graduation. Talk to Lafayette graduates and they can recount times when they have been in odd places and encounter other Lafayette alumni or stories of running into alumni almost every week in New York City, where many alumni seem to relocate to after graduation. But even more important, is that Lafayette grads continue on to do great things. In fact, Lafayette ranks second in the nation among the thirty top-ranked national liberal arts colleges in the percentage of alumni who are corporate leaders according to Standard & Poor
Would an alumnus donate $50,000 so that a retiring professor could continue his work. That
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