

Within six months of graduation, 98% are employed or attending graduate school.

Two-thirds of students live on campus in 12 single-sex residence halls and eight Greek houses.Study abroad options are formally available in France, Germany, Spain, Argentina, England, and Scotland.

House and Senate, the White House, national security agencies, policy organizations, news outlets, and private companies. Students can opt to take core courses while living in D.C., or participate in for-credit internships at places like the U.S. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. Students have the opportunity to spend a semester or more at Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C.Students can meet these expectations by taking advantage of readily available office hours and by developing mentorship relationships with their teachers, which is common here. Hillsdale’s faculty are recognized for excellent teaching and scholarship, as well as for having high expectations of their students.All students benefit from core and major-level faculty advisors.Of 146 full-time faculty, 90% hold the highest degree in their disciplines.Student-to-faculty ratio is 9:1, the average class size is 15, and faculty teach all Hillsdale courses themselves - there are no teaching assistants.News and World Report, Princeton Review, Forbes, Colleges of Distinction, and Kiplinger’s. Hillsdale is regularly recognized nationally for quality and value, including recent rankings from U.S.Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, and Imprimis, a national speech digest with a circulation of more than 5.6 million. Hillsdale conducts numerous outreach efforts promoting civil and religious liberty, including free, not-for-credit online courses, public lectures and lecture-series on campus and at the Washington, D.C.-based Allan P.Unique courses in Hillsdale’s core curriculum include Western and American Heritage, Great Books in the Western Tradition, Great Books in the British and American Traditions, Classical Logic and Rhetoric, Western Philosophical Tradition, Western Theological Tradition, and the U.S.All of the many ways to experience faith on campus reflect the lives and moral journeys of people seeking to understand their own beliefs. Spiritual life is important to both faculty and students who come from a variety of faith backgrounds. Though Hillsdale is religiously unaffiliated, it identifies as Christian.Hillsdale operates independently of federal and state funding, yet flourishes financially, thanks to the past and continuing generosity of supporters nationwide.
