Marietta College

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a small city.

Overview

Marietta College is a coeducational, private college located in Marietta, Ohio, United States. It was founded in the year 1835. The campus encompasses nearly three city blocks in Marietta. The institution offers major degrees in more than 40 fields and many minors with a strong liberal arts foundation. The college also provides opportunities to study abroad.

Marietta College has a notable Greek life. A few of the fraternities and sororities that it hosts are Lambda Chi Alpha, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Xi Delta, and Delta Tau Delta, among others. The institution also encourages an active student life and is home to several clubs and organizations including athletics & recreation, academic clubs, religious groups, and cultural groups.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in media, drama and performing arts, and mathematics.
• Large number of students.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High percentage of students are from out-of-state.
• Good faculty-to-student ratio.
• High faculty salary.
• Superior share of faculty on tenure track.

School characteristics:

• The school is private, not-for-profit.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate Colleges, General.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 1,606 in 2009-2010 (1,651 full-time equivalent).

About 54% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 46% of the class.

Undergrads are 88% of enrolled students and graduate students are 12%.

Students under 25 years old represent 93% of the student body. About 1% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Marietta provides on-campus housing for 1,207 of its 1,651 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Ohio Athletic Conference for major sports.

Graduate School Focus

Marietta offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Master.

The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Postbaccalaureate With Arts & Sciences (Education Dominant).

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (64 awarded)

• Accounting
• Business Administration and Management
• Finance
• Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration
• International Business/Trade/Commerce
• Management Information Systems
• Marketing/Marketing Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (3 awarded)

• Computer Science
• Computer and Information Sciences

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (3 awarded)

• Environmental Science
• Environmental Studies

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (8 awarded)

• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (41 awarded)

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
• Education
• Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching

ENGINEERING (21 awarded)

• Petroleum Engineering

FINE ARTS (4 awarded)

• Fine Arts and Art Studies
• Fine/Studio Arts

LIBERAL ARTS (36 awarded)

• Area, Ethnic, Cultural, and Gender Studies
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• General Studies
• History
• International/Global Studies
• Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
• Political Science and Government
• Spanish Language and Literature

MATHEMATICS (6 awarded)

• Mathematics

MEDIA (52 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Journalism
• Mass Communication/Media Studies
• Organizational Communication
• Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication
• Radio and Television

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (30 awarded)

• Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences
• Physician Assistant

MUSIC (2 awarded)

• Music

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (7 awarded)

• Athletic Training/Trainer

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (11 awarded)

• Commercial and Advertising Art

SCIENCE (30 awarded)

• Biochemistry
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Chemistry
• Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences
• Physics

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (21 awarded)

• Psychology