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Academics
Undergraduate Degree
Bachelor of Arts
Academic Calendar
Two 15-week semesters and summer school
Faculty-Student Ratio
1:13
Class Size
87% of classes have 29 or fewer students. Average class size is 20.
Faculty
94% of full-time faculty hold a Ph.D. or highest degree in field.
Faculty Honors and Achievements, 2000-2006 Grants and fellowships from organizations including the American Chemical Society, Arkay Foundation, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Cure Autism Now Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DePuy Mitek, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Geological Society of America, Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves Award in the Humanities, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Huntington Library, Intel Corporation, Japan Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Mathematical Association of America, Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, National Geospatial Agency, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Council for the Humanities, Organization for Autism Research, PEN Translation Fund, Positive Psychology Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Research Corporation, South Asia Center at the University of Washington, U.S. Department of Education, Templeton Foundation, U.S. Department of State, U.S. National Security Agency, and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
National Student Honors, 1994-2008 Ford Foundation Fellowship (1), Fulbright Scholarships (22), Goldwater Scholarships (24), Hertz Foundation Fellowships (2), Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship (1), Madison Fellowships (2), Mellon Fellowships (2), National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar Award (1), National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (8), NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship (1), Rhodes Scholarship (1), Truman Scholarships (9), Udall Scholarships (7), Wilson Fellowships (2).