Overall Rating Reporter
Overall Score
Liaison Kate Keppen
Submission Date March 7, 2025

STARS v3.0

Ursinus College
PRE-3: Institutional Characteristics

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter
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Institution type:
Baccalaureate

Institutional control:
Private non-profit

Narrative outlining the institutional boundary used to complete this report:

Ursinus College is located in Collegeville PA. It’s 170 acre campus contains academic buildings, an art museum, the library, student center and residence halls that intersect on a brick walkway. Several buildings are notable for innovation or for their history. 

Liberal education is provided through an academic program that empowers the intellect, awakens moral sensitivity, and challenges students to improve society. Students gain intellectual curiosity, the capacity to think analytically, critically, and creatively, and the skill to express thoughts with logic, clarity, and grace. Further, they develop a deepened sense of human history and an understanding of who they are as persons, what they ought to do as citizens, and how they best can appreciate the diversity and ambiguity of contemporary experience. The highly residential living and learning experience on campus includes an campus farm, wooded trails, and a Main Street. 

Information taken from: https://www.ursinus.edu/about/our-location/ and https://www.ursinus.edu/about/what-matters-to-us/mission-values/


Which of the following features are included within the institutional boundary?:
Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares
Museum
Veterinary school

Locale:
Small town

Climate zone:
4 - Mixed

Gross floor area of building space:
114,438.60 Square meters

Full-time equivalent of employees:
480

Full-time equivalent student enrollment:
1,502

Percentage of students that live in campus housing:
90

Percentage of students enrolled exclusively in distance education:
0

Optional documentation

Notes about the information provided for this credit:

Numbers from 2023 were utilized for the student and employee numbers reported on this page. If more recent census information is utilized in other areas of the report, the year will be notated. 

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