Muhlenberg College is a small
liberal arts college
in
Allentown,
Pennsylvania,
USA. It was
founded in 1848 in
affiliation with the
Lutheran
Church. Muhlenberg College gets its name from Henry
Melchior
Muhlenberg who was the "
patriarch" of the
Lutheran Church in
Colonial America.
I wouldn't call Muhlenberg College today a religous school,
per se. It has excellent programs in the natural
sciences (especially pre-med), social sciences,
humanities, and arts (especially drama). What the
school lacks due to its small size, it more than makes
up for in the quality of education the dedicated faculty provide.
The campus is beautiful and the people there are
extrodinarily nice. They have a web page at
www.muhlenberg.edu .
Some stuff from their home page:
MUHLENBERG STATISTICS
Founded: 1848
Affiliation: Lutheran Church
Full-Time Enrollment: 2,035 43% men, 57% women
Financial Aid: Approximately 65% of students receive some form of
financial aid.
Faculty: 138 full-time, 82 part-time; 90% hold Ph.D. or other
terminal degree.
Student-Faculty Ratio: 12:1
Library Resources: Muhlenberg's Trexler Library resources include over 213,000 volumes and
360,000 microforms. An interlibrary loan program makes over 2.5 million books available to
Muhlenberg students with daily delivery to campus.
Academic Emphasis: Liberal arts and preprofessional studies
Intercollegiate Sports: MEN: football, soccer,cross country, basketball, wrestling,baseball, track, tennis, and golf.
WOMEN: tennis, field hockey, cross country, track, volleyball,
basketball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, and golf.
Centennial Conference Member
Campus Life: 90 clubs and student organizations, four national
fraternities and four national sororities.
CLASS PROFILE
2000 Freshman Class
Applications Received: 3,501
Students Offered Admissions: 1,550
Students Enrolled: 590
High School Class Rank
Top Tenth: 37%
Top Fifth: 64%
Top Two-Fifths: 90%
SAT Scores
The Middle 50% of students enrolled in the freshman class had SAT Verbal
scores between 547 and 637, and SAT Math scores between 556 and 646.
Geographic Distribution
Pennsylvania 33%
New Jersey 32%
New York 16%
New England 11%
Del./Md./Va./D.C. 5%
Other States/Foreign 3%