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Carleton College

School info
4.3
Overall Quality
Reputation
4.8
Food
3.3
Clubs
4.1
Facilities
4.5
Internet
4.1
Location
3.7
Opportunities
4.4
Safety
4.8
Social
4.3
Happiness
4.5

Basic Information

Location

  • Northfield, MN

Institution Overview

  • Public/Private: Private liberal arts college
  • Established: December 1866; 157 years ago (1866-12)
  • Founder: Charles M. Goodsell, Charles Augustus Wheaton, Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches

Academic information

Degree Courses

  • Carleton College offers 33 major programs and 38 minor programs

Key Area

  • Chemistry
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Psychology
  • Biology
  • Mathematics and Statistics

Student and Staff Numbers

  • Students: 2,069
  • Undergraduates: 2,105 (2016)
  • Postgraduates: 0
  • Academic Staff: 269 (2016)

Notable Alumni

  • Lila Abu-Lughod
  • Peter Tork
  • Jimmy Chin
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • Mary-Claire King

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Students talk about this school

Good reviews
Overall 5
great
Overall 5
I love going to Carleton. Just finished my first year and everything about it is amazing. Great classes, clubs, and community!
Overall 5
Carleton is overall an amazing school. The professors are passionate and fellow classmates are interesting and helpful. There is a club or activity for everyone.
Overall 5
Extremely safe school, extremely smart students, extremely good profs, what's more to ask?
Overall 4.9
Amazing school! I know all my professors well and often talk to them about my personal life, I even text with some. They know me and check in. So do all the students, it's small here, so people care for one another. The location is not ideal, but I think contributes to the close-knit community because we're in our own little bubble. 10/10 choice.
Overall 4.9
Great school, boring location, but great people!
Overall 4.9
Fantastic school and I miss it dearly as a recent alum.
Overall 4.9
Super happy with my choice here. To describe what's amazing about carleton is ineffable to say the least, it's something u have to experience first to believe me. People are amazing, some are irritating, but most are really caring even if they're irritating. Great school for a bunch of awkward nerds, not kidding we are super awkward and nerdy.
Overall 4.9
Carleton will provide you the opportunity to learn an incredible amount and make you a lifelong learner. It's career services are lacking (a lot) but if you network with peers and alums you can usually go into whatever you want except banking/consulting. Other than that you're set and have a fantastic time here.
Overall 4.9
Super smart kids and really nice people from staff to profs. It's such a wonderful place but it's cold!
Bad reviews
Overall 1.6
Carleton is a horrible campus all around, the social life isn't any better and the sports teams aren't fun to watch at all. Wish I would've gone to a different school.