Carleton College

Carleton Academy is a clandestine academy that was founded in 1866. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 2,057, its ambience is rural, and the campus admeasurement is 955 acres. It utilizes a trimester-based bookish calendar. Carleton College's baronial in the 2016 copy of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 8. Its charge and fees are $49,263 (2015-16).

Carleton Academy is amid in the celebrated river boondocks of Northfield, Minnesota. The Carleton Knights accept 19 varsity able-bodied teams aggressive in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Able-bodied Conference. Carleton offers added than 170 apprentice organizations, abounding with artistic names, including the Carleton Juggling F.I.S.H., the One Knight Stands cabaret affiliation and the Knightingales a cappella group, to name a few. Intramural sports like quidditch, broomball, dodgeball and beach volleyball are aswell accepted a part of students. All freshmen are appropriate to reside on campus, and about 90 percent of acceptance accept to abide on campus in one of the abode halls, aggregate absorption houses or campus townhouses.

Carleton Academy offers abutting to 40 undergraduate majors. The academy has abounding different traditions, including burglary and periodically announcement a adhesive apprehension of the German artist Friedrich Schiller that dates aback to the 1950s. A newer attitude is the "Silent Ball Party" during abstraction canicule above-mentioned to finals if acceptance don headphones and ball calm in the library. The Goodsell Observatory on Carleton’s campus houses three celebrated telescopes as able-bodied as several avant-garde telescopes accessible for classes and accessible houses. Notable alumni cover Anthony Downs, columnist of "An Economic Theory of Democracy," and above Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler.