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At the heart of the University of Minnesota, the College of Liberal Arts has served Minnesota and its people with distinction for 135 years - improving people's lives and contributing to the public good through path-breaking research, service to communities, and teaching.
The centrality of the liberal arts brings students from across the University - from nearly every college and program - to CLA for core courses in fields such as psychology, history, philosophy, music, literature, political science, economics, communication studies, and the languages. To be one of the world's top research universities demands distinction in the core disciplines of knowledge that comprise the liberal arts.
"In the long run, a broad education will give you a very powerful tool chest from which to draw, in ways that are completely unexpected over the course of your career."
- Dean Steven Rosenstone, Selling the Ivory Tower, Twin Cities Business Monthly, August 2005.
"Change" has been the watchword of the college over the past ten years. Through careful and strategic planning, the college has made remarkable advances:
- 84% of the Class of 2009 graduated in the top 25% of their high school class.
- 32% of the Class of 2009 students ranked in the top 10% of their high school class.
- Students of color represent 15% of the Class of 2009.
- 60% of CLA students are women.
- 86% of CLA's fall 2003 full-time freshmen returned to CLA for their sophomore year.
- CLA has 544 tenured/tenure-track faculty.
- CLA faculty received 117 research awards totaling $20.6 million in FY05
The college has 540 dedicated and award-winning faculty who are making the discoveries and creating the knowledge in the arts, social sciences and humanities. The College of Liberal Arts is home to nearly 17,000 spectacular students and the alma mater to about 110,000 living alumni.
