Majors
Monmouth College's 34 academic
departments offer majors and minors in the following areas: Accounting,
Art, Biology, Biochemistry, Biopsychology, Business Administration,
Chemistry, Classics, Computer Science, Economics, Education, English,
Environmental Science, French, Greek, History, International Business,
International Studies, Latin, Mathematics,
Music, Music Education, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Physical Education,
Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Relations,
Sociology-Anthropology, Spanish, and Speech Communication and Theater
Arts.
Pre-Professional
Programs
Architecture, Computer Science, Dentistry, Engineering, Law, Library
Science, Medical Technology, Medicine, Ministry and Christian Education,
Nursing, Occupational and Physical Therapy, Reserve Officers Training
Corps, Social Service, Teaching and Veterinary Medicine.
Academic Calendar
Monmouth College's academic year is in two semesters. Fall semester
extends from late August to mid-December. Spring semester extends from
mid-January to mid-May.
Admission
Policy
Incoming Monmouth College students should
complete a program of college preparatory classes in high school, score 18
or higher on the ACT and finish in the top half of their high school
graduating class.
Athletics
The College’s participation in a full
range of NCAA Division III programs is predicated on the belief that
athletics, along with other extracurricular activities, can be an
important part of a student’s education. As a member of the Midwest
Conference, Monmouth offers 10 varsity sports each for men and women and
14 intramural sports.
Faculty
The college has 95 full-time
equivalent faculty members; 76.2 percent of whom have earned the highest
degrees in their fields, and 42 part-time members.
Financial Aid
99 percent of students receive
financial assistance, such as federal grants and loans, state tuition
grants and work-study programs. FAFSA required.
Huff Athletic Center
Monmouth College's $22 million Huff
Athletic Center, opened in 2003, incorporated two earlier gymnasiums with
a new 54,000-square-foot field house, a new natatorium and an educational
wing to create a state-of-the-art athletic facility encompassing more than
155,000 square feet.
Intercultural Life
Intercultural Life focuses its attention on the nurturance and special
needs of a growing number of students from diverse backgrounds, advising,
counseling and encouraging them to be full participants in the college
community.
Involvement
Nearly all Monmouth students are involved in one or more of the 80 student
organizations, including music, theater, athletics, community service and
debate.
Merit Scholarships
Monmouth College is serious about
helping to make a college education affordable. In addition to offering a
number of institutional scholarships, the Office of Financial Aid will
assist students in identifying outside scholarships. Many "no-need" awards
are made for academic and artistic merit.
Residence Life
93 percent of Monmouth
students live on campus in one of the four women's residence halls,
three men's residence halls, a fraternity complex, three coeducational
residence halls, apartment-style housing, or five theme houses.
Monmouth College shares its name with the town that is its home, the seat
of Warren County in western Illinois, a pleasant and hospitable community
of 9,500 residents.
The Mississippi River, still the
threshold of the American West, flows just 15 miles from Monmouth’s
campus. Chicago is 180 miles to the northeast. The Quad Cities—Moline and
Rock Island in Illinois, Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa—straddle the
Mississippi 40 miles due north.
Monmouth is easily accessible from
Interstates 80 and 74. Commercial air service is available through Moline,
Peoria, and Burlington, Iowa. Monmouth’s location also permits easy access
to other academic communities: Western Illinois University is 30 miles
south in Macomb; Augustana College is located in Rock Island; and Knox
College, Monmouth’s traditional rival in athletics, is just 12 miles away
in Galesburg.
The College’s History and Purpose
Founded in 1853 by Presbyterian pioneers, Monmouth College brought the
blessings of civilization to the people of the rough frontier and spoke of
traditional values to those who were shaping a new world. Though today our
life knows different frontiers, the College still thinks of its purpose as
its founders did—preserving and celebrating the traditions that have been
entrusted to it while promoting discovery and investigation. Although the
student body today includes many who come from far beyond western
Illinois, Monmouth continues to have a strong sense of identity with its
local community and with the region in which it is proudly rooted. Unusual
for the time, Monmouth College was created as a coeducational institution.
Indeed, it was one of the first colleges to give women equality with men,
and, not surprisingly, women’s interests have been prominent in the
College’s history. Monmouth has chosen to remain the collegiate
institution it was founded to be, preferring not to expand into a
university. Monmouth continues to insist that its purpose is not to pursue
knowledge for its own sake, in the university’s fashion, but to encourage
students to seek values by bringing together knowledge and belief in a
coherent whole. The College has neither graduate nor professional schools
and is therefore able to focus its resources entirely on its
undergraduates. In true collegiate fashion, Monmouth stresses the unity
and equality of the academic disciplines that compose it. The College’s
chief interest lies in providing its students a generous understanding of
human experience; individual disciplines receive their sense of direction
from that larger commitment rather than permitting the specific interest
to become an end in itself.