About Bucknell

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General
  • 3,500 undergraduate students, about 175 of whom study abroad each semester
  • 150 graduate students.
  • Students from 46 states, 66 countries
  • More than 180 international students
  • About three hours from New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
  • More than 7,900 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)
  • 87 percent graduate within four years - rate is among the highest in the U.S.
  • 358 full-time faculty
  • Nearly 97 percent of regular faculty hold Ph.D. or equivalent degree
  • 62 percent of faculty are tenured
  • 94 percent of first-year students return as sophomores
  • 27 percent of engineering students are women
Student Life
  • 45 percent of students spend a summer, semester or more studying off campus
  • 12th among bachelor's institutions for number of students studying abroad
  • 5th among bachelor's institutions for duration of study abroad
  • 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
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
  • 93 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 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
  • Winner of the Patriot League's Presidents' Cup, the league's all-sports trophy, 17 of the last 21 years
  • Extensive intramural and club sport programs
Financial
  • Bucknell's average financial aid award is $27,000
  • About 62 percent of students in each class receive financial aid of some form
  • For 2011-12, Bucknell budgeted more than $44 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
Alumni
  • Within nine months after graduation, 88 percent of the class of 2010 was employed, in graduate or professional school or both || Class of 2010 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 40 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