Fast Facts

Year Founded: 1924
Four-year, independent, coeducational, comprehensive college
Daan Braveman, Ninth President (www.naz.edu/dept/president)
Student/faculty ratio: 12:1
Average class size: 19
Situated in Pittsford, NY, seven miles from Rochester
Percentage of full-time faculty members who have received the highest professional degree in their field: 94
Academic Calendar: The fall semester is late August through early December and the spring semester is mid-January through early May
Percentage of recent grads who are in graduate school or employed within one year after graduation: 93%. Percentage working in fields related to their academic programs of study: 81%

Princeton Review
- Nazareth College is one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. Nazareth is one of only four schools in the nation to be added to The Best 368 Colleges: 2009 Edition .
- Features a two-page profile of Nazareth in its annual guide, "The Best Northeastern Colleges."
- Princeton Review also awarded Nazareth College a 97 score in the category of Quality of Campus Life.
U.S. News and World Report
- College survey for 2008 ranks Nazareth in the top tier for the category of "Universities-Masters, North Region"
- Nazareth Has been included in the "Great Schools at Great Prices list.
Fulbright Scholars
- During the past decade 18Nazareth students and faculty have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships. 2 have been awarded Pickering Scholarships as well.

In the 2007-2008 academic year, 96% of Nazareth students received some form of financial aid.

The Fall 2007 freshman class possesses a mean SAT score of 1160.
More than 30% of the Fall 2007 freshman class were in the top 10% of their high school class; 70% in the top 25%.
Incoming freshmen carried a high school GPA of 3.4 in their core academic subjects.

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23 intercollegiate athletic teams compete at the Division III level.
Over the past 5 years Nazareth student athletes GPA has been 3.231.
In 2007, Nazareth won Empire 8 Conference titles in women's field hockey, and men's lacrosse.
In 2007 Women's swimmer Emily Lesher, won a NCAA National title in the 400IM.

91 percent of Nazareth undergraduates participate in community service while they are students.
Nazareth is one of few schools to have an on-campus Center for Service Learning, which acts as a resource for faculty who want to incorporate service into the curriculum.

Nazareth has more than 28,500 alumni residing in 49 out of 50 states and 38 countries around the world. Nazareth College surveyed the Undergraduate Class of 2006, and this is where they are:
- 93% of graduates are either employed or enrolled in graduate school.
- 81% of graduates are working in jobs related to their academic major.
- 75% of graduates participated in a career-related internship prior to graduation and 93% reported the experience to be valuable.
- Nazareth's six-year graduate rate is 72%, while is regional average is 62%.
Our Graduate School Class of 2006 had good things to say too:
- 88% of graduates are employed full time.
- 94% of graduates would recommend Nazareth for graduate studies.

Situated on 150 acres of beautiful buildings and grounds
23 buildings, including 11 residence halls, a 2,200 seat stadium and all-weather track, and the five-story Golisano Academic Center.
New residence hall opening Fall 2008.
Colie's Cafe, an on-campus coffee house, opened in 2000.
The Nazareth College Arts Center, which houses the departments of Theatre Arts, Music, and Art, has entertained almost three million people at performances since it opened in 1967.
On-campus clinics for speech and hearing, reading and physical therapy allow students to gain practical experience and are also open to the Rochester community.

It takes six people three and a half working days to mow and trim all the lawns at Nazareth. That's about 168 hours worth of work.
The Heritage Oaks are two 15-foot English oaks located to the left of the drive to parking lot Q, near the path to the horse barn. They were grown from acorns that were brought back from the real Sherwood Forest.
We don't just produce great scholars and athletes: we also produce outstanding coaches. 16 Naz grads now serve as Naz varsity coaches, and former Golden Flyer Jeff Van Gundy '85 was head coach of the New York Knicks in the late '90s. He now is a television announcer for ESPN, ABC sports.
Once a semester, during finals week, the faculty and staff of Nazareth traditionally get together at midnight in Kearney Dining Hall to serve eggs, pancakes, hash browns, grits and other breakfast fare to study-crazed Naz students.
The Lorette Wilmot library holds more than a quarter million volumes. If you stacked all these volumes one on top of the other, they would travel a distance of 3.329 miles.
If you stand at a certain spot just outside of the Shults Student Center, everything you say will echo. The next time you visit campus, ask anyone where the "Echo Circle" is located and try it out.
No need for friends and family to send the standard rolls of quarters in care packages from home: Nazareth undergraduates can do their laundry for free in their residence halls.