Earlham College
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| Motto | Vita Lux Hominum (Life, The Light of Humankind) |
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| Type | Private coeducational liberal arts college |
| Established | 1847 |
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Religious affiliation
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Quakers |
| Endowment | $215 million (2014) |
| President | David Dawson Alan Price (incoming) |
| Students | 1,019 |
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Richmond, Indiana, U.S. Coordinates: 39°49′28.44″N 84°54′47.78″W / 39.8245667°N 84.9132722°W |
| Campus | Rural, 800 acres (3.2 km2) |
| Colors | Maroon and White |
| Nickname | Quakers |
| Mascot | Big Earl |
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Sporting affiliations
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NCAA Division III – HCAC |
| Website | www |
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Earlham College is a private, liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Earlham welcomes students of all faiths and offers an education rooted in such Quaker values as integrity, a commitment to peace and social justice, mutual respect and community decision-making.
Earlham is ranked 29th (98th percentile) among 1,533 U.S. institutions of higher learning in the percentage of graduates who go on to receive Ph.D.s, and is 10th (99th percentile) in producing Ph.D.s in the biological sciences and 14th (99th percentile) in the life sciences. In 2016, Earlham ranked number 61 among national liberal arts colleges by U.S. News & World Report. Forbes Magazine in 2016 ranked Earlham at 106 in private colleges and 82 in "grateful grads." Forbes gave Earlham an A+ financial rating. Earlham is member of the Colleges that Change Lives.
Nearly half of Earlham alumni graduating in the last 10 years enrolled in graduate or professional school, including institutions such as Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Washington University of St. Louis and the University of Oxford in England.
Earlham is primarily a residential undergraduate college, but also offers a Master of Arts in Teaching, which provides a route for teacher licensure to students with liberal arts undergraduate degrees. There is also an affiliated graduate seminary, the Earlham School of Religion, which offers three master's degrees: a Master of Divinity, Master of Ministry, and Master of Arts in Religion. Earlham College is listed in Loren Pope's book, Colleges That Change Lives, and has produced two Nobel laureates (both in chemistry).
Earlham was founded in 1847 as a boarding high school for the religious education of Quaker adolescents. In 1859, Earlham became Earlham College, upon the addition of collegiate academics. At this time, Earlham was the third Quaker college in the United States (Haverford College was first, Guilford College the second), and the second U.S. institution of higher education to be coeducational (Oberlin College was first). Though the college initially only admitted students who belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, Earlham began admitting non-Quakers in 1865. The college was named for Earlham Hall, home of the Gurneys, an important English Quaker family.
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