Ursinus College - Education facility details

University details for Ursinus College

Kind of institute is private institution, established 1869, with no affiliation to religious institutions. The academic schedule is planned as semester and sports 1,571 undergraduates capacity. This college is located in a suburban location and university's endowment amounts to 109,575,757.The admission fee rough estimate is $ 50 and the application deadline is february 15. See Extra Curriculars informations for Ursinus College This university is considered more selective and fees is around USD 33,350 while room or board is US Dollars 7,600. For educational funding (as explained in national education loans) use the below contact details to inquire Ursinus College about available funding that can be available.

Services at Ursinus College

The common services provided are nonremedial tutoring, placement service, health service, health insurance, other. It offers counseling on: minority student, career, personal, academic, psychological, birth control, religious.

The career services offered counseling are: on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training, otherWithin the first year of 60% and in within the first two years of not known data. Firms that hire most graduates are GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Wyeth, ICON Clinical Research, University of Pennsylvania (research), Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Vanguard Group, Federal Reserve Board, Merrill Lynch, Lockheed Martin, National Multiple Scleros.

Library facilities and special facilities of Ursinus College

It provides a library, and is member of a library consortia. Provides 406,000 books, serial files.The current number of serial subscriptions is: 2,269. Has 201,000 microforms, audio visuals and 3,800 eBooks. Has other facilities: Literary papers of writer Linda Grace Hoyer Updike, Ursinus 1923, mother of novelist John Updike; a Pennsylvania German archive; the Ursinusiana archives and a collection of student art work. The library also has access to 6020 electronic periodicals via database aggregators including Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, Lexis-Nexis Environmental and Expanded Academic ASAP index. It also holds access to Early American Imprints Series I: Evans, 1639-1800. The Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College includes a collection of over 3,000 works by artists ranging from Henry Moore to Louise Nevelson to Francoise Gilot. and relating to museums or other special academic buildings on the Campus offers: The Kaleidoscope, the college's new performing arts center, opened in April of 2005 with a 350-seat proscenium arch theater, an experimental black box theater, an outdoor stage, a set design studio, lighting and sound center; the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, with a sizable collection of paintings, drawings, etchings, sculpture and other works of art; the Floy Lewis Bakes Field House and Fitness Center; the Pfahler Hall of Science with state-of-the-art lab equipment, including Bruker 300 MHz NMR, Perkin Elmer Spectrum 1000 FTIR, LKB Isothermal Calorimeter, Hewlett Packard 1800A GCD GC-MS, Hewlett Packard 5890 Series II GC equipped with a 5971A MS, BAS 100W Voltammetric Analyzer, Varian Cary 1 UV-Visible Spectrometer, Perkin Elmer Lambda 2S UV-Visible Spectrometers, Hewlett Packard 8450A UV-Visible Spectrometers, Perkin Elmer 603 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Hewlett Packard 1090 HPLC, Perkin Elmer Series 4 Chromatographic System, a photographic darkroom, and the state-of-the art Marsteller Observatory on the building's roof; Thomas Hall, life sciences building, with advanced laboratory equipment, including a scanning electron microscope, flow cytometer, spectrometers, light microscopes and tissue culture facility; Bomberger Hall, where the three-manual, 62-rank Heefner Memorial Organ is the dominant feature; and a major collection of outdoor sculptures which dots the 170-acre campus..

Technological aim and facilities in Ursinus College

This institute doesn't require a computer training to be followed, and an own computer is necessary. There are 1,825 seats available for students.It does offer Web access and it does not provide e-mail addresses.Computers available in: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center. The amount of provided cable accesses in the library (except tech labs) is 308. Classes have 1,124. In the laboratories the number is 97. There are also 2,228 cabled online access points are available.Ursinus College does offer WiFi accesses.

The suggested OS is Microsoft.The percent of hostings found at college for OnlineInternet surfing is 100%. Students are permitted publish personal web sites and there is an internet signup service. Security services provided on the Campus are: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc).

Life at Campus and School Housing for Ursinus College

The % of undergrads that stay at college-owned houses is 95%. The percentage of male undergrads living at the Fraternities is 17%. The % of female undergrads living in the Sororities is 28%. The % of students staying on campus during the weekends is 85%.

The college does offer housing. And the percentage of students living in institute-owned housing is 95%. Housing is available for all unmarried students. The School does provide help if housing is not available. The types of provided housings are coed dorms (65%), women's dorms (10%), men's dorms (10%), special housing for international students (5%), other housing options (10%). The institute-owned percentage of housings units is 36% singles, 55% double rooms, 9% triples,

The college has 44 buildings The percent of housing units where is installed a sprinkler device is 100%. Among buildings, 100% have fire security devices. In total 100% are equipped with fast internet access. The total campus area is 170 acres.

Transportation -distances are presented in miles to Ursinus College

  • Nearest airport to Ursinus College: Philadelphia (30), Allentown, PA (35)
  • Closest train station to Ursinus College: Philadelphia (25)
  • Nearest bus station to Ursinus College: King of Prussia (10)


Public transportation does not serve the campus. Students are not allowed to have cars in the campusand 55% of students do have a vehicle with them.

Student Jobs, Reserve Officers Training Corps and Rules at Ursinus College

The school does provide employment and the percentage of undergrads that worked on campus in 2005/2006 is 43%, the average wage was 1,800 and freshmen are suggested not to work in their 1st term.

Army ROTC: Not offered, Navy ROTC: Not offered, Air Force ROTC: Not offered.

Common (legal) alcohol is allowed in the faculty.Additional regulations: class attendance policies set by individual instructors, hazing prohibited.

Campus most famous events: Concerts by the Ursinus Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band, the Meistersingers and College Choir, Music at Noon, plays by Ursinus College Theater are always sold out, dance recitals by the Ursinus Dance Company draw large crowds, Homecoming, Spring Fling, Battle of the Bands, Poemplooza, and for fun and fund-raising, the annual Airband competition. . For detailed sportive informations check the site of Ursinus College. You can also search different college in Pennsylvania as the informations can be very different for each university.

Ursinus College address:
Box 1000
Collegeville, PA 19426

Website: http://www.ursinus.edu
Email: Admissions@Ursinus.edu




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