Academics

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Connect to People and Ideas that Open Your World.

At Rollins College, we take great pride in offering an applied liberal arts education that prepares students to pursue meaningful lives and productive careers.  A Rollins education empowers students to strive for excellence, cultivate intellectual curiosity, develop critical thinking, become responsible leaders, and engage in the world around them. Rollins faculty are a community of teacher-scholars, artists, and performers who are nationally and internationally recognized for excellence and their commitment to student-centered learning.  Faculty and staff  work with students to develop an integrated experience to link in-class learning with unparalleled applied opportunities such as hands-on undergraduate collaborative research,  academic internships, national award-winning community engagement and first-year programs, as well as inspiring international experiences. A Rollins education exposes students to a broad range of knowledge that transcends disciplinary boundaries and the traditional walls of the classroom.

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Awards and Recognition:

• For the sixth consecutive year, Rollins ranked number one among southern regional universities in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges.”

• Rollins is consistently recognized in college guidebooks among the finest private liberal arts colleges in America.

• In spring 2010, Rollins junior Justin Wright was announced as a recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship, Andrea Williamson '07, '10MBA was chosen for a Fulbright award and Jonathan Stamm '10, was selected by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity as an Elie Wiesel Prize In Ethics Essay Contest winner.
 
• Six Rollins students received prestigious awards in 2008-09; an American Graduate Fellowship, a Boren Scholarship, and four Fulbright Awards. 
 
• In October 2009, the Fulbright Program announced that Rollins is the top producing master’s institution in the nation (based on Carnegie Classification).  This year four students from Rollins College received Fulbright Awards, ranking Rollins number one out of the 81 master’s institutions whose students received Fulbrights (there are a total of 663 master’s institutions in the country).  The success of the top-producing institutions was highlighted in The Chronicle of Higher Education.  Nine Rollins students have received Fulbright Awards in the last four years.
 
• The Chronicle of Higher Education featured Rollins for its internationalization initiative for faculty and recognized Rollins in its Great Colleges to Work for 2009.

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected Rollins as a recipient of the 2008 Community Engagement Classification.

• For the second year in a row, the Corporation for National and Community Service named Rollins College to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction.