Why Bucknell? 3,500 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students Students from 46 states, 63 countries About three hours from New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Academics
- All classes are taught by faculty - More than 50 majors and 65 minors - Pre-professional advising in law and health professions - 10-to-1 student-faculty ratio (undergraduates) - 87 percent graduate within four years - among the highest in the U.S. - Nearly 97 percent of regular faculty hold Ph.D. or equivalent degree - 94 percent of first-year students return as sophomores - 27 percent of engineering students are women
Student Life
- More than 150 student organizations, 12 fraternities and eight sororities - 85 percent of seniors participate in community service or volunteer work - Student-run radio station, newspaper and literary publications
The Campus
- 450-acre campus - More than 100 facilities, including performing arts center, art gallery and state-of-the-art fitness center - 89 percent of undergraduate students live on campus - All student housing connected to high-speed internet - Digital television in residence halls
Financial
- Bucknell’s average financial aid award is $27,000 - About 62 percent of students in each class receive some form of financial aid - For 2011-12, Bucknell budgeted more than $44 million toward undergraduate scholarship aid
Alumni
- Within nine months after graduation, 97 percent of the Class of 2011 was employed or in graduate school - Nearly 50,000 alumni live, work and contribute actively in every state in the United States and nearly 100 countries - The highly accomplished alumni community includes a 1998 Pulitzer Prize recipient, chief executive officer of CBS Corp., founder of LendingTree.com, co-founder of The Home Depot Inc., chief executive officer of Children’s Place and the first chief technology officer for PBS.