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Academic Numbers

10:1: Student-faculty ratio

54: Majors offered

30: Minors offered

15: Median class size

170: Full-time faculty

700/700/700: Median SAT scores of first-year class

31: Median ACT composite score of first-year class

62: Percent of incoming first-years reporting top 5-percent rank in class

Inspired Learning

A rigorous academic program is at the core of a Colby education. Students work closely with professors, exploring new ideas, stretching to expand their knowledge and perceptions of the world. Faculty members—world-class teachers and scholars committed to liberal arts education—challenge students in a collaborative learning experience that is transformational for both.


Stories

  • Oceans Away

    Bigelow collaboration takes students out of the classroom and out to sea

  • Transforming Lives Through Yoga

    Emily Fleming '12 speaks with Margaret Njeri, whose life has been transformed through teaching with the Africa Yoga Project. Run time: 4:05

  • End of Classes -- What Next?

    Emily Fleming '12 and the other students in her program finished classes and are starting independent projects. What are they doing?

  • Like R2-D2, Only Smarter

    At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Bogumil Giertler ’12 presented the iPad controls he created for a robot.

  • No Easy Answers

    Walter Hatch brings his own style to teaching and interacting with students—much of which is based on listening, not just talking.

  • Q&A; Michelle Russell '11

    Environmental activist Michelle Russell '11 on fighting chemicals in cosmetics, public speaking, and how art plays a role in her activism.

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News

  • Student Exhibit Wins Award

    A student-created exhibit about Somali Bantu immigrants in Maine that was expanded to include other immigrant experiences won the New England Museum...More »


  • On Jews in Higher Ed

    Desiree Shayer '12 and Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies David Freidenreich will give a talk about Jews in higher education in the early 20th...More »


  • Student's Magazine Highlighted

    A magazine started by Jenny Chen '12 and her brother to promote social change was recently featured in the Washington Post. JJ...More »


  • Nyhus at International Tiger Summit

    When Vladimir Putin convenes the International Tiger Conservation Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov. 21-24, Associate Professor of Environmental...More »


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