Harvey Mudd College - Overview

Students

• Number of students: about 800
• Gender ratio: 46 percent female, 54 percent male
• Student distribution: 48 states and 26 foreign countries
• Class of 2018: 87 percent in top 10 percent of class; 40 percent valedictorians or salutatorians
• Student-to-faculty ratio: 9:1
• Students living on campus: 99 percent

Faculty

• Faculty: 89 tenured or tenure track; all hold PhD or highest degree in field
• Faculty gender ratio: 38 percent female, 62 percent male

Tuition and Financial Aid 2014–15

• Tuition: $48,315
• Room and board: $15,833
• Financial aid: Nearly 80 percent of students receive financial aid up to $56,450

Graduate Placement

• Graduate or professional school: Nearly 40 percent
• Workforce: Nearly 60 percent
• Average starting salary: Between $75,000 and $80,000
• Alumni: 6,005 and counting

Finances

• Endowment: $241 million as of June 30, 2013
• Budget for fiscal year 2011–12: $52 million

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2015

• No. 1 – Undergraduate Engineering College, tied with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• No. 15 – Liberal Arts Colleges, tied with Colby College, Hamilton College and Wesleyan University
• No. 5 – High School Counselors’ Picks

PayScale 2014-15

• No. 1 – Highest Mid-Career Salaries, PayScale’s 2015 College Salary Report
• No. 1 – Best Schools for Return on Investment, PayScale’s 2014 College ROI Report

Princeton Review 2014

• A “Best College” – Princeton Review’s 2014 college guide, The Best 378 Colleges
• No. 3 – “Best Science Lab Facilities”
• No. 5 – “Students Study the Most”
• No. 10 – “Professors Get High Marks”
• A “Best Value College” – Princeton Review’s The Best Value Colleges: 2014 Edition

Kiplinger’s 2014

• No. 36 – Kiplinger’s Best Values in Private Colleges

Forbes 2013–14

• No. 15 – Forbes’ Most Entrepreneurial Colleges, 2013
• No. 52 – Forbes’ America’s Top Colleges, 2014
• No. 7 – Forbes’ Top 25 Western Colleges, 2014

Faculty Awards and Accolades

• National Academy of Engineering’s 2012 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education
• Inaugural American Mathematical Society Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department, 2005
• Four Mathematical Association of America Alder Awards for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning Faculty Member
• Two Mathematical Association of America Haimo Awards for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics
• Three NSF Career Awards recognizing extraordinary faculty in early stages of their careers, for faculty in the Biology, Chemistry and Computer Science departments
• American Physical Society’s (APS) Prize to a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution
• Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) Fellow, Chemistry Department
• Four Henry Dreyfus Teacher–Scholars in Chemistry, based on accomplishment in scholarly research with undergrad