Lewis & Clark College

Lewis and Clark Students TalkingLewis & Clark College is a private institution with a public conscience, a residential campus with global reach. Our unmatched setting, proximity to a progressive urban center, and Pacific Northwest heritage combine to offer all who teach, study, or work here a deep sense of place and broad opportunities for reflection, renewal, and recreation.  At Lewis & Clark College—College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, and Graduate School of Education and Counseling— we welcome all who are alive to inquiry, open to diversity, and eager to shape life in an interdependent world. In all our endeavors and throughout our three schools, we vigorously pursue the aims of all liberal learning: to seek knowledge for its own sake and to strengthen civic leadership. Our highly interactive communities of learning challenge us all to connect ideas, reasoning, and thoughtful expression with lives of service as citizens of the world.

Enrollment (Fall 2009):

  • Undergraduate students: 1,977
  • Graduate students: 1,546

Undergraduate Student Profile:

  • Male: 39%; Female: 61%
  • Oregon students: 20%; Out of state: 72%; International: 8%

Number of majors: 28 undergraduate majors
Most popular majors:

  • Psychology
  • International Affairs
  • Sociology/Anthropology
  • English Language and Literature
  • Biology/Biochemistry

Tuition: $33,726
Room & board: $8,820

Alumni:

  • Total Living: More than 19,000
  • Where Alumni Reside (top three states) & Number:
    • Oregon (6,627)
    • California (2,414)
    • Washington (1,922).

Financial Aid Data

  • Students with demonstrated financial need: 69%
  • Average financial aid package: Range $2,000 – $43,020

Class Size

  • Student/Faculty Ratio: 13:1
  • Fewer than 29 students: 87%

Faculty

  • 60% Full-time faculty
  • 94% Full-time with Ph.D./terminal degree

Athletics & Intramural Activities

  • Athletic Division: NCAA Division III
  • More than 40% of student participants in sport activities and intramurals

Co-curricular Activities

  • More than 60 student clubs and organizations
  • Honor societies include Phi Beta Kappa

International Experience:

  • Students who study abroad: 55%

Top Graduate Schools Attended (selected)

  • New York University
  • Baylor University Law School
  • Columbia University
  • George Washington Law School
  • University Of California-Berkeley
  • Georgetown University Law School
  • Yale University
  • John Marshall Law School
  • University Of Washington
  • Harvard Law School
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • University of California, Los Angeles Law School
  • University Of California, Los Angeles
  • Stanford University
  • University Of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • University Of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Cornell University
  • Princeton University
  • Tufts University
  • University Of Maryland, College Park