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Beloit College
Motto
Scientia Vera Cum Fide
Pura
(
)
Motto
in English
True knowledge with pure
faith
Type
Established
1846
; 180 years ago
Academic
affiliations
Oberlin Group
$85.6 million in 2025
Eric Boynton
Academic
staff
94
964 (2022)
Location
,
U.S.
Campus
Urban, 65 acres
(26.3 ha)
Blue and gold
Sporting
affiliations
–
Mascot
Buccaneer (official),
Turtle (unofficial)
Website
Beloit College
is a
in
,
United States. Founded in 1846 when
was still a territory,
it is
the state's oldest continuously operated college. It has an enrollment of
roughly 1,000
students.
History
[
]
Beloit College was founded by the group Friends for Education, which was
started by seven pioneers from
who, soon after their arrival in
the
, agreed that a college needed to be established. The
group raised funds for a college in their town and convinced the territorial
to enact the charter for Beloit College on February 2, 1846. The
first building (then called Middle College) was built in 1847, and remains in
operation. Classes began in the fall of 1847, with the first degrees awarded
in 1851.
Beloit's first president was
, who served from 1849 to
1886.
The college became coeducational in 1895.
In 1904, Grace Ousley became the
first African-American woman to graduate from the college.
Although independent today, Beloit College was historically, though
unofficially, associated with
.
The college remained very small for almost its entire first century, with
enrollment topping 1,000 students only with the influx of
veterans in 1945–46. The "Beloit Plan" was a year-round curriculum introduced
in 1964 that comprised three full terms and a "field term" of off-campus
study.
The trustees returned to the two-semester program in 1978.
Campus
[
]
Beloit's campus is within the
.
The campus has 20 conical, linear, and animal effigy mounds built between
about 400 and 1200, created by Native Americans identified by archaeologists
as Late Woodland people.
One of the mounds, in the shape of a
,
inspired Beloit's symbol and unofficial mascot. The mounds on Beloit's campus
are "catalogued" burial sites, and therefore may not be disturbed without a
Wisconsin Historical Society permit. Several of the Beloit College sites have
been partially excavated and restored, and material found within them—
including pottery and tool fragments—is held in the college's Logan Museum of
Anthropology.
In 2008 Beloit College completed a 120,000 sq ft (11,000 m
2
) Center for the Sciences, which was named the Marjorie and
James Sanger Center for the Sciences in 2017.
The building was awarded LEED (
) green building certification.
It also won a Design Excellence Honor Award in Interior Architecture from the
Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2009.
Marjorie and James Sanger Center
for the Sciences
In 2010, Beloit College opened the Hendricks Center for the Arts, a 58,000-square-
foot (5,400 m
2
) structure with dance, music, and theater facilities. The building
previously held the Beloit Post Office and later the Beloit Public Library. The
renovation and expansion of the facility is the largest single gift in the college's
history. The building is named after
, chair of
of Beloit,
and her late husband and former college trustee
.
Two Beloit campus museums open to the public are run by college staff and students. The
and the
were founded in the late 19th century. The Logan Museum, accredited by the
, curates over 300,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects from 125 countries and over 600
cultural groups. The Wright Museum's holdings of over 8,000 objects include a large collection of original prints and
Asian art. Both museums feature temporary special exhibitions year-round.
The Beloit College campus shows two sculptures by artist
,
Gazebo for One Anarchist:
1991
and
The Beloit College Poetry Garden
.
Academics
[
]
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63
National
458
Beloit College is a four-year college that offers over 70 undergraduate
majors, minors, and programs. Beloit also partners with other higher
educational institutions, like
,
,
,
,
,
,
to
offer continuing education pathways
and accelerated degree offerings.
Beloit offers over 70 undergraduate majors, minors, and programs.
The
college's average class size is around 12 students,
with one-third of courses having 10 or fewer students.
Academic strengths include field-oriented disciplines such as anthropology and geology. Its three most popular majors,
by 2024 graduates, were Social Sciences, Biological/life sciences, and Physical sciences,
a slight shift from
2021's most popular majors Biology/Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Business/Managerial Economics.
In 2012, the
college ranked among the top 20 American liberal arts colleges whose graduates go on to earn a Ph.D.
Middle College overlooking the
Beloit campus
Schools
[
]
Beginning in late 2023, Beloit launched five schools within the college.
School of Business
[
]
The School of Business launched late 2023,
focusing on an interdisciplinary business curriculum aligning with its
liberal arts core.
It operates out of
, which was part of the college's $20 million investment in
renovating campus spaces.
The director of the School of Business is Diep Phan, a professor of economics and
business at Beloit since 2009.
The college's Center for Entrepreneurship, known as CELEB, is a student-driven program housed off-campus. The space
includes an entrepreneurship lab, public art gallery, TV & media lab, recording studio, and maker lab.
School of Health Sciences
[
]
The School of Health Sciences at Beloit opened alongside the School of Business in late fall 2023/early 2024.
It is
home to major paths focused in the healthcare field. The school also partners with other local institutions to provide
various paths to health-related fields. In November 2023, Beloit partnered with the
in
Milwaukee to provide a path toward a Pharmacy Doctorate Degree.
In October 2025, Beloit partnered with neighboring
state
to offer various pathways from bachelors to graduate-level health science degrees.
Beloit also partnered with Edgewood University in 2024 to offer dual-degree RN to BSN program.
School of Environment and Sustainability
[
]
The School of Environment and Sustainability launched in 2024 and is home to degree paths aimed at environmental study
and sustainability impact.
The geology department continues a tradition that began with
more than a century ago. It
combines a course load with field methods and research. The department is a member of the
, a
research collaboration of several similar colleges across the United States, including
,
, and
. The consortium sends undergraduate students worldwide to research and
publish their findings.
School of Global & Public Service
[
]
The School of Global and Public Service launched in November 2024 and is home to its majors that focus on public,
private, and non-profit social justice and human rights advocacy.
School of Media and the Arts (SoMA)
[
]
The School of Media and the Arts is home to the college's various artistic and visual majors.
The Hendricks Center
for the Arts is home to SoMA, which houses studios, performance spaces, and other campus activities.
Student life
[
]
Beloit students' housing options range from substance-free dormitories to special interest houses, such as the Art,
Spanish, Outdoor Environmental Club (OEC), and interfaith options.
Beloit College has fraternities and
sororities.
The school also has over 45 student organizations and clubs.
As of 2022, there is a creative writing
club called the Aardvark Authors.
The student newspaper,
The Round Table
, was founded in 1853 as the
Beloit Monthly
.
The student radio station, WBCR-
FM, operates at 88.3 MHz and streams online.
Eaton Chapel
Beloit College has a
golf course contained almost entirely within the
college grounds. In April 2006, Beloit students broke the world record for the
longest game of Ultimate Frisbee, playing for over 72 hours.
In 2011 Beloit College received the Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Campus Internationalization.
48
states are represented at the college and approximately 14% of the student body is from countries outside the United
States.
In addition, about half of all Beloit College students study abroad in places such as China, Russia, Brazil,
Germany, India, and Spain. Each year, students can share their experiences abroad on "Beloit and Beyond" Day, when all
classes are canceled so that everyone can attend the presentations.
The "
", an annual list of the life experiences of entering college freshmen, originated at Beloit College
in 1998. In 2019, the list moved to
.
In 1969, like many campuses across the country, Beloit College received a set of demands from Black students called
"The Black Demands".
Various students protested by overtaking Middle College, turning it into a Black Cultural
Center, and gathering in front of the Richardson Auditorium before a scheduled board of trustees meeting. The demands
were met but the college has not successfully implemented all of them, such as increasing the percentage of both black
faculty and students to 10%. In 2018 Beloit College edited its bias policy to add a section on hate acts in order to
address hate acts that occurred in 2006, 2015 and 2017.
Athletics
[
]
Beloit
athletics
monogram
Beloit teams are nicknamed the
Buccaneers
. The university competes at the
level as a
member of the
and fields varsity teams in football, baseball, softball, volleyball,
men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country,
men's and women's track and field, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's hockey, men's and
women's soccer, and esports. Notable successes include baseball coach Dave DeGeorge recording his
558th career win.
DeGeorge's teams have won three conference titles in twelve Midwest Conference Tournament
appearances. Student-athletes earned All-American honors (Nate Otis track & field
) and Scholar All-American Honors
(Helena Harrison diving
).
Recognition
[
]
In 2025,
listed Beloit College among the 391 Best Colleges.
Likewise,
gave Beloit top rankings for 2025 Best Colleges rankings, Most Innovative, Best Value, First-Year Experience, and
Undergraduate Teaching.
ranked Beloit College number 23 in the nation in 2023.
Notable alumni
[
]
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, military historian and author
, naturalist, explorer, and director of the
, actor, star of films and long-running TV series
[
]
, investigative journalist
, former NFL tight end
, geologist, professor, University of Wisconsin president, museum director
, editorial cartoonist and conservationist who won two
, sportscaster
, video producer, awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University
, first African-American Ph.D recipient in computer science and pioneer in interface design
, justice of the
, Grammy award-winning composer/performer of music for children
, human rights activist
, broadcast personality
, nursing educator
, actor
, attorney and government official, member of the Beloit board of trustees
, poet
, horror writer
, one of the four founders of SAS Institute
, publisher of
, filmmaker,
executive
, civil rights activist
Notable faculty
[
]
, poet
, educator
, founder of the
, arachnologist
, historian,
recipient
, papyrologist
, musician
, astronomer
, author
, author
, chemist
, poet
, paleontologist
, mathematician
, author
, chemist and politician
, poet
See also
[
]
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