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  Gettysburg College
300 N Washington St
Gettysburg, PA 173251486
General information
Financial aid office
Admissions office
(717) 337-6000 Ext.
(717) 337-6611 Ext.
(717) 337-6100 Ext.

Type of institution: Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Federal Aid: Institution has a Program Participation Agreement with the US Department of Education for eligible students to receive Pell Grants and other federal aid.
Degrees offered: Bachelor degree
Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate Colleges--Arts & Sciences
Number of students: 2,531 (2006)
2007-08 Undergraduate application fee:$55.00

About this School
Gettysburg College is a private four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, adjacent to the famous battlefield. Its athletic teams are nicknamed the Bullets. Gettysburg College has an enrollment of slightly over 2,500 students, the majority of whom come from Pennsylvania and the nearby states of New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut, and New York.
 
Academic year prices for full-time, first-time undergraduate students
Tuition and Fees2007-082006-072005-06
In-State$35,770$33,700$31,790
Out of State$35,770$33,700$31,790
Books and Supplies$500$500$500
On-Campus
Room and board$8,630$8,260$7,794
Other Expenses$500$500$500
Off Campus
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Financial aid 2005-2006

Financial aid to full-time, first-time undergraduate students

Type of AidPercentage of students receiving aidAverage amount of aid they received
Federal Grants (scholarship/fellowship) 9% $3,878
State/Local grants (scholarship/fellowship) 11% $3,113
Institutional grants (scholarship/fellowship) 69% $16,996
Loans to students 57% $4,330
 
 

Degrees offered by this school

 
 
Bachelor degree
Women's Studies
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Women's Studies: A program that focuses on the history, sociology, politics, culture, and economics of women, and the development of modern feminism in relation to the roles played by women in different periods and locations in North America and the world. Programs may focus on lite...

Bachelor degree
Spanish Language and Literature
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Spanish Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the Spanish language and related dialects. Includes instruction in Spanish philology, Modern Castillan, various Latin American dialects, regional Spanish dialects, and applications in business, science/technology, and other ...

Bachelor degree
Sociology
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Sociology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human social institutions and social relationships. Includes instruction in social theory, sociological research methods, social organization and structure, social stratification and hierarchies, dynamics of social change,...

Bachelor degree
Social Sciences
Other
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Social Sciences, Other: Any instructional program in social sciences not listed in the Social Sciences, General category.

Bachelor degree
Religion + Religious Studies
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Religion + Religious Studies: A program that focuses on the nature of religious belief and specific religious and quasi-religious systems. Includes instruction in phenomenology; the sociology, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature and art of religion; mythology; scriptura...

Bachelor degree
Psychology
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Psychology, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of individual and collective behavior, the physical and environmental bases of behavior, and the analysis and treatment of behavior problems and disorders. Includes instruction in the principles of the vario...

Bachelor degree
Political Science and Government
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Political Science and Government, General: A general program that focuses on the systematic study of political institutions and behavior. Includes instruction in political philosophy, political theory, comparative government and politics, political parties and interest groups, publ...

Bachelor degree
Physics
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Physics, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of matter and energy, and the formulation and testing of the laws governing the behavior of the matter-energy continuum. Includes instruction in classical and modern physics, electricity and magnetism, thermody...

Bachelor degree
Philosophy
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Philosophy: A program that focuses on ideas and their logical structure, including arguments and investigations about abstract and real phenomena. Includes instruction in logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, symbolism, and history of philosophy, and applications to ...

Bachelor degree
Music
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Music, General: A general program that focuses on the introductory study and appreciation of music and the performing arts. Includes instruction in music, dance, and other performing arts media.

Bachelor degree
Music Teacher Education
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Music Teacher Education: A program that prepares individuals to teach music and music appreciation programs at various educational levels.

Bachelor degree
Multi- + Interdisciplinary Studies
Other
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Multi- + Interdisciplinary Studies, Other: Any instructional program in multi/interdisciplinary studies not listed in the Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, General category.

Bachelor degree
Mathematics
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Mathematics, General: A general program that focuses on the analysis of quantities, magnitudes, forms, and their relationships, using symbolic logic and language. Includes instruction in algebra, calculus, functional analysis, geometry, number theory, logic, topology and other mathe...

Bachelor degree
Latin Language and Literature
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Latin Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the Latin language and literature from its origins through its decline and its current ecclesiastical usage, as a secular and/or theological subject. Includes instruction in Latin philology, related Italic dialects, Late Roman...

Bachelor degree
Latin American Studies
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Latin American Studies: A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of one or more of the Hispanic peoples of the North and South American Continents outside Canada and the United States, including the study of the Pre-Columbian period and the flo...

Bachelor degree
Kinesiology and Exercise Science
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Kinesiology and Exercise Science: A scientific program that focuses on the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and biophysics of human movement, and applications to exercise and therapeutic rehabilitation. Includes instruction in biomechanics, motor behavior, motor development and co...

Bachelor degree
Japanese Studies
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Japanese Studies: A program that focuses on the history, society, politics, culture, and economics of the peoples of Japan, and related island groups and coastal neighbors.

Bachelor degree
History
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree History, General: A program that focuses on the general study and interpretation of the past, including the gathering, recording, synthesizing and criticizing of evidence and theories about past events. Includes instruction in historiography; historical research methods; studies of ...

Bachelor degree
Health and Physical Education
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Health and Physical Education, General: A general program that focuses on activities and principles that promote physical fitness, achieve and maintain athletic prowess, and accomplish related research and service goals. Includes instruction in human movement studies, motivation stu...

Bachelor degree
German Language and Literature
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree German Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the German language and related dialects as used in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, neighboring European countries containing German-speaking minorities, and elsewhere. Includes instruction in German philology; Old, Middle, an...

Bachelor degree
French Language and Literature
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree French Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the French language and related dialects and creoles. Includes instruction in French philology, Metropolitan French, Canadian French, African and Caribbean Creoles, French regional dialects, and applications in business, scie...

Bachelor degree
Fine + Studio Arts
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Fine + Studio Arts, General: A program that prepares individuals to generally function as creative artists in the visual and plastic media. Includes instruction in the traditional fine arts media (drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, CAD/CAM) and/or modern media (ceramics, tex...

Bachelor degree
Exercise Physiology
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Exercise Physiology: A program that focuses on the scientific study of the physiological processes involved in physical or motor activity, including sensorimotor interactions, response mechanisms, and the effects of injury, disease, and disability. Includes instruction in muscular a...

Bachelor degree
Environmental Studies
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Environmental Studies: A program that focuses on environment-related issues using scientific, social scientific, or humanistic approaches or a combination. Includes instruction in the basic principles of ecology and environmental science and related subjects such as policy, politic...

Bachelor degree
English Language and Literature
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree English Language and Literature, General: A general program that focuses on the English language, including its history, structure and related communications skills; and the literature and culture of English-speaking peoples.

Bachelor degree
Economics
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Economics, General: A general program that focuses on the systematic study of the production, conservation and allocation of resources in conditions of scarcity, together with the organizational frameworks related to these processes. Includes instruction in economic theory, micro- a...

Bachelor degree
Drama and Dramatics + Theatre Arts
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Drama and Dramatics + Theatre Arts, General: A program that focuses on the general study of dramatic works and their performance. Includes instruction in major works of dramatic literature, dramatic styles and types, and the principles of organizing and producing full live or filmed...

Bachelor degree
Computer and Information Sciences
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Computer and Information Sciences, General: A general program that focuses on computing, computer science, and information science and systems as part of a broad and/or interdisciplinary program. Such programs are undifferentiated as to title and content and are not to be confused wi...

Bachelor degree
Computational Mathematics
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Computational Mathematics: A program that focuses on the application of mathematics to the theory, architecture, and design of computers, computational techniques, and algorithms. Includes instruction in computer theory, cybernetics, numerical analysis, algorithm development, binar...

Bachelor degree
Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General.
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General: A general program that focuses on the literary culture of the ancient Graeco-Roman world and the Greek and Latin languages and literatures and their development prior to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Bachelor degree
Chemistry
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Chemistry, General: A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behavior of matter, including its micro- and macro-structure, the processes of chemical change, and the theoretical description and laboratory simulation of these phenomena.

Bachelor degree
Business Administration and Management
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Business Administration and Management, General: A program that generally prepares individuals to plan, organize, direct, and control the functions and processes of a firm or organization. Includes instruction in management theory, human resources management and behavior, accounting...

Bachelor degree
Biology + Biological Sciences
General
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Biology + Biological Sciences, General: A general program of biology at the introductory, basic level or a program in biology or the biological sciences that is undifferentiated as to title or content. Includes instruction in general biology and programs covering a variety of biolog...

Bachelor degree
Biochemistry
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Biochemistry: A program that focuses on the scientific study of the chemistry of living systems, their fundamental chemical substances and reactions, and their chemical pathways and information transfer systems, with particular reference to carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nuclei...

Bachelor degree
Art History
Criticism and Conservation
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Art History, Criticism and Conservation: A program that focuses on the study of the historical development of art as social and intellectual phenomenon, the analysis of works of art, and art conservation. Includes instruction in the theory of art, art history research methods, conno...

Bachelor degree
Anthropology
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Anthropology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology a...

Bachelor degree
Ancient + Classical Greek Language and Literature
Gettysburg College

General Description for:
Gettysburg College Bachelor degree Ancient + Classical Greek Language and Literature: A program that focuses on the Greek language and literature from its origins through the fall of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, as a secular and/or theological subject. Includes instruction in Greek philology, Attic dialects,...

 
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