Largest Universities (campus/acres)

mini
Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:55:18 +0000

There are others, like Berry College, that boast enormous numbers, but I wonder if that land is 100% owned by the school and/or situated at a single campus site?

Berry College owns every inch of the 28,000 acres on a single campus site (it was part of the original gift from Martha Berry), and the college actually uses it in some of its environmental studies courses. (In contrast, lots of Stanford is made up of business space that is rented out.)

They also have the 13th largest endowment of any liberal arts college in the United States, larger than Davidson, Macalester, Mount Holyoke, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, etc. And, per student, I think larger than Stanford’s or Duke’s. Faculty/student ratio of 11 to 1, and they all teach. 95% of students receive financial aid.

Besides Berry, Berea College has more than 10,000 acres (also larger than Stanford), has an endowment 60% larger than Berry’s (and with a smaller student body) (making it 8th or 9th among liberal arts colleges), is older than Stanford, and, as a college, older than Duke, and 100% of students attend tuition-free. (tough to get in, though, and they have a higher yield than either Stanford or Duke.)