About Bucknell

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General
  • 3,500 undergraduate students
  • 100 graduate students
  • Students from 46 states, 63 countries
  • More than 175 international students
  • About three hours from New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
  • Approximately 8,300 applicants for about 925 spaces
  • John C. Bravman became Bucknell's 17th president in July 2010
Academics
  • All classes are taught by faculty
  • More than 50 majors and 65 minors
  • Pre-professional advising in law and health professions
  • Faculty-mentored undergraduate research opportunities across all disciplines
  • 10-to-1 student-faculty ratio (undergraduates)
  • 85 percent graduate within four years (Class of 2012)
  • More than 350 full-time, tenure-line faculty
  • Nearly 97 percent of regular faculty hold Ph.D. or terminal degree
  • 62 percent of faculty are tenured
  • 95 percent of first-year students return as sophomores
  • Approximately 440 students study abroad each year, including fall, spring, full year and summer programs. About one quarter of these students study abroad during the summer.
  • 27 percent of engineering students are women
Student Life
  • 45 percent of students spend a summer, semester or more studying off campus
  • More than 150 student organizations, 11 fraternities and eight sororities
  • 85 percent of seniors participate in community service or volunteer work
  • Student-run radio station, newspaper and literary publications
  • Regular national headlining concerts and stand-up comedians
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
  • Substantial campus wireless network || Library and Computing
  • Digital television in residence halls
Athletics
  • 90 percent of student-athletes graduate within six years
  • Fifth among Division I schools for the number of student-athletes named to Academic All-America teams
  • Student-athlete graduation fourth highest in nation among all Division I programs
  • Intercollegiate program of 27 varsity sports - 13 men's and 14 women's
  • Member of the Patriot League with American, Army, Colgate, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh and Navy in Division I. Boston University and Loyola University Maryland will join the Patriot League in 2013.
  • Winner of the Patriot League's Presidents' Cup, the league's all-sports trophy, 18 of the last 23 years the cup has been awarded, and the seventh time in eight years
  • Extensive intramural and club sport programs
Financial
  • Bucknell's average financial aid award is $28,000
  • About 62 percent of students in each class receive financial aid of some form
  • For 2012-13, Bucknell budgeted more than $46 million toward undergraduate scholarship aid
  • 2012-13 tuition and fees
    $56,190 total
    $45,132 tuition
    $10,812 standard room and board
    $246 student fee
  • More than 99 percent of Bucknell's students repay their federal student loans on time. Far better than the national average, this rate reflects the ability of our graduates to meet their financial responsibilities and Bucknell's commitment to encouraging families to limit their student loan debt. (Source: U.S. Department of Education FY 2009 three-year default rates for borrowers whose loans entered repayment between Oct. 1. 2008 and Sept. 30, 2009.
Alumni
  • Within nine months after graduation, 97 percent of the class of 2011 was employed, in graduate or professional school, or was volunteering or traveling. Of those, 71 percent were employed, 18 percent were in graduate or professional school, 3 percent were employed and in graduate or professional school, and 5 percent were volunteering or traveling. Just 3 percent were still seeking employment. || Class of 2011 Post-Graduation Report
  • Nearly 50,000 alumni live, work and contribute actively in every state in the United States and nearly 100 countries
  • The most heavily populated states with Bucknell alumni, in order: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and California
  • Bucknell supports 41 regional clubs around the world
  • Clubs host 200 events a year, uniting thousands of alumni, parents and friends
  • The highly accomplished alumni community includes a 1998 Pulitzer Prize recipient, chief executive officer of CBS Corp., chief executive officer of Children's Place, founder of LendingTree.com, co-founder of The Home Depot Inc. and the first chief technology officer for PBS
Rankings
  • #32 among national liberal arts colleges in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2013
  • #9 among undergraduate engineering programs in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2013
    biomedical engineering: #1
    chemical engineering: #2
    civil engineering: #4
    computer engineering: #4
    electrical engineering: #8
    mechanical engineering: #9
  • Listed in Princeton Review's Best Northeastern Colleges and Best Value Colleges for 2012
  • According to the PayScale College Salary Survey, Bucknell ranks #10 among liberal arts colleges for alumni mid-career salary
  • #5 in Newsweek's College Rankings for 2012: Most Beautiful Schools
  • 6th among bachelor's institutions for number of students studying abroad (2010-11, Institute of International Education)
  • 1st among bachelor's institutions for duration of study abroad (2010-11, Institute of international Education)