Gettysburg College
Gettysburg College seal
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Former name
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Pennsylvania College (1832–1921) |
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Motto in English
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Do Great Work |
| Type | Private liberal arts college |
| Established | 1832 |
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Religious affiliation
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
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Academic affiliation
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NAICU Annapolis Group CLAC |
| President | Janet Morgan Riggs |
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Academic staff
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225 |
| Undergraduates | 2,451 |
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Gettysburg, PA, United States 39°50′14″N 77°14′09″W / 39.837087°N 77.235937°W |
| Campus | Rural, 200 acres |
| Founder | Samuel Simon Schmucker |
| Colors | Orange Blue |
| Sports | Division III |
| Nickname | Bullets |
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Sporting affiliations
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NCAA Division III Centennial Conference |
| Website | www |
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Gettysburg College is a private, four-year liberal arts college founded in 1832, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the famous battlefield. The 225-acre (91 ha) campus is located at 300 North Washington Street in the Northwest corner of the town.
Known as the Bullets, the school hosts 24 NCAA Division III men's and women's teams, with a large number of club, intramural, and recreational programs.
Gettysburg College has about 2,700 students, with roughly equal numbers of men and women. Gettysburg students come from 43 states and 35 countries.
In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked it 46th among Best Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2015, the Princeton Review ranked Gettysburg College as the 11th in its list of the Best Schools for Internships, only 1 out of 4 liberal arts schools in the top 25. It's also consistently rated as one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, due to its close proximity to the Gettysburg Battlefield National Park.
The college is the home of The Gettysburg Review, a literary magazine.
Gettysburg College was founded in 1832, as a sister institution for the Lutheran Theological Seminary. Both owe their inception to Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican and abolitionist from Gettysburg. The college's original name was Pennsylvania College; it was founded by Samuel Simon Schmucker. In 1839, seven years after Gettysburg College was first founded, Drs. George McClellan (founder of Jefferson Medical College), Samuel George Morton, and others, founded a medical school, Pennsylvania Medical College, which was located in Philadelphia. The school had money troubles within four years, forcing all founding members to leave their posts. After a failed agreement to combine with the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1858 (closed in 1859, with the faculty begin rolled into Pennsylvania Medical College), the college was forced to close the medical school in 1861. Students from the seceding southern states had withdrawn to return home, leaving it without adequate revenue.
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