Beloit College Competitors

One of the world’s great intellectual destinations, the University of Chicago empowers scholars and students to ask tough questions, cross disciplinary boundaries, and challenge conventional thinking to enrich human life around the globe. http://www.uchicago.edu/about/

Our incredible alumni branch out into the world and make it a better place. Our world-class faculty challenges the students to think. For 200 years we have helped students become thoughtful, critical thinkers and perceptive leaders. We foster diversity of thought and action founded in a Liberal Arts Core Curriculum that has been recognized as one of the most elegant in the country. At the same time, our community contributes to a vibrant campus culture that complements and expands on the knowledge created in our classrooms and labs. There isn't a week where a Colgate alum isn't back on campus.

When Grinnell College framed its charter in the Iowa Territory of the United States in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." The College pursues that mission by providing an education in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas. As a teaching and learning community, the College holds that knowledge is a good to be pursued both for its own sake and for the intellectual, moral, and physical well-being of individuals and of society at large. The College exists to provide a lively academic community of students and teachers of high scholarly qualifications from diverse social and cultural circumstances. The College aims to graduate individuals who can think clearly, who can speak and write persuasively and even eloquently, who can evaluate critically both their own and others' ideas, who can acquire new knowledge, and who are prepared in life and work to use their knowledge and their abilities to serve the common good.