Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College, founded in 1889, is an independent national liberal arts college for women located in the metropolitan Atlanta area, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Student Body

• 910 students as of Fall 2007
• Our undergraduate students represent 43 states and 23 countries; 92 percent of traditional students live on campus
• 5 percent of our students are international.
• A third of our students are ethnically diverse.
• About 40 percent of Agnes Scott students will study abroad before they graduate.
• Agnes Scott’s honor system is one of the oldest in the country; our student self-government recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
• Historically and presently, Agnes Scott students have earned academia’s most prestigious scholarships including the Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater and the Pickering Fellowship.

Admission and Financial Aid

• The class of 2011: total enrollment is 218
• 21 percent of the class of 2011 graduated in the top 5 percent of their high school class; 41 percent were in the top 10 percent or better
• 73 percent of 2011 first-years attended public schools.
• Acceptance rate: 45 percent
• Enrollment Yield: 30 percent
• Mean High School GPA: 3.65
• Middle 50% range of SAT: 1060-1290 (critical reading and mathematics only)
• Middle 50% range of ACT: 22-29
• 67 percent of students qualify for and receive need-based financial aid
• In Fall 2007, the average institutional aid package was roughly $16,000.

Athletics
The Scotties are represented with seven varsity teams (Basketball, Cross Country, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis and Volleyball) that play at the NCAA Division III level.

Our President
In Fall 2006, Elizabeth Kiss (pronounced “quiche”) became the eighth president of Agnes Scott College. Kiss is the former Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and an Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Philosophy at Duke University. She was the first female Rhodes Scholar at her alma mater, Davidson College. She earned her B. Phil. and D. Phil. degrees in philosophy at Oxford University.  Learn more

Academic Programs

• Number of full-time faculty: 84 
• Tenure-track faculty with Ph.D. or terminal degree: 100 percent
• View our faculty directory
• Student/faculty ratio: 10:1
• Average number of students per class: 15
• 33 undergraduate majors and 26 minors, as well as pre-professional programs in law, medicine and health; dual-degree programs in nursing, architecture and engineering
• Master of Arts in Teaching degree in English, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics
• Post-baccalaureate certificate programs in pre-medicine and early childhood education. Learn more

Finances

• Our comprehensive fee for 2007-2008 is $36,737, which includes tuition, room and board, student activity/technology fees and health insurance.
• Agnes Scott’s endowment is valued at approximately $325 million.
• Annual budget:  $42 million

Campus
Agnes Scott sits on 100 acres shaded with some of the state’s oldest trees. Our hometown is Decatur, a city that lies six miles from the center of Atlanta. MARTA (Atlanta’s rapid transit) stops three blocks from campus.

The Collegiate Gothic and Victorian red brick-and-stone buildings have won national awards for design and resulted in Agnes Scott’s recognition for the second most-beautiful campus in the country by The Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges (2006). Our campus consists of 27 buildings and an apartment complex.

A $120 million building program in the past decade added a new campus center and the multidisciplinary Mary Brown Bullock Science Center. There were also major renovations to the library, dining hall and landscape/hardscape improvements.

Groundbreaking for a new chapel was held in 2007 and is presently nearing completion.

Distinguished Alumnae
Marsha Norman ’69x, H’05, won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, ’night, Mother. She has adapted other works for Broadway plays, including the musicals, The Color Purple and The Secret Garden, for which she received a Tony award. Norman is also a faculty member at The Julliard School.

Katherine “Kay” Krill ’77, was named CEO of Ann Taylor Stores Corporation in 2004. A psychology major, Krill joined the company in 1994 and was instrumental in the creation and launch of Ann Taylor Loft, one of the company’s most successful divisions. Krill became Executive Vice President of Ann Taylor Loft in 1996 and was promoted to president of that division in 2001.

Jennifer Nettles ’97 was a successful solo musician with folk and country roots before joining the band Sugarland in 2003. The group was nominated for a 2006 Grammy in the Best New Artist category. In 2005, the band won an American Music Award for Favorite New Artist. In 2006, Nettles again made the Billboard Top 100 for a duet with Jon Bon Jovi, the single “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?”

Jean Toal ’65 is Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, the first and only woman to hold that position. In 2006, she was quoted in Cambridge University Press’ Reconceiving the Family, Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution.