Oglethorpe University is once again ranked among the nation’s Best Liberal Arts Colleges, according to this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges Rankings. The list includes the top-ranked 210 liberal arts colleges in the nation. Schools are ranked according to their performance across a set of widely accepted indicators of excellence and key […]
The Princeton Review has once again recognized Oglethorpe University as one of the Best Colleges in the Southeast. The well-known education services company included Oglethorpe in its 2023 Best Colleges Region by Region — recommended schools that are “academically outstanding and well worth consideration” in a college search. Only 143 colleges in 12 Southeastern states […]
With the start of classes just around the corner, 26 Oglethorpe faculty attended the “Inclusive Pedagogy Core School,” a training workshop organized as a collaboration between the Core Program, co-directed by Dr. Kathleen Peters and Dr. Stephen Herschler Mattern, and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, led by Dr. Laura Renée Chandler. Over the course of […]
The Fiske Guide to Colleges has named Oglethorpe University to its annual top 20 list of “Best Buy” colleges and universities nationwide for the sixth consecutive year. Comprised of 10 private and 10 public colleges and universities, the list recognizes a select group of schools noted for quality academic offerings and affordable cost. These are […]
Oglethorpe University alumni have come together to form the Oglethorpe Black Alumni Network (OBAN), which officially launched during Alumni Weekend in April 2022. Mentorship, scholarship, and community are at the heart of this new affinity group, founded by Black alumni who graduated between 2008 and 2019. “I wanted to take advantage of the relationships and […]
Oglethorpe University is among 171 U.S. colleges and universities named to Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s 2022 Transfer Honor Roll, which recognizes the most transfer-friendly schools. This is the fourth consecutive year Oglethorpe made the list. The premier honor society for two-year college students, Phi Theta Kappa annually selects the four-year colleges and universities that […]
Stephen Graffius ’24 is a junior physics-engineering dual degree major. “The reason I came to Oglethorpe is because I was recruited to run cross country and track. And it’s worked out so far, which is really nice. I’ve picked up a lot of things along the way that I wouldn’t have really expected—like joining a […]
Today, students, faculty and staff celebrated one of Oglethorpe’s beloved traditions — Oglethorpe Day. The sun shone brightly as the campus community gathered for the event for the first time since 2020. This annual tradition celebrates the university’s namesake, James Edward Oglethorpe. It is on Oglethorpe Day that we are reminded of the motto of […]
James Aiken ’22 is an Adult Degree Program student majoring in Business. About a month into flight school, I’m sitting on the couch, watching the news before one of my flight lessons. It was something like six o’clock in the morning in Arizona, so it was nine-something in New York. I turned on the news […]
Ethan Hawkland is assistant director of admission at Oglethorpe University. “I grew up 18 years on the family farm in the same house. I’m from a very small town called Collins, Georgia, where the closest grocery store is 30 minutes away. My family has lived in that town for generations, passing the farm down from […]