Maryville College
502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway
Maryville, TN 37804-5907
Official telephone: (865) 981-8000
Toll-free telephone: (800) 597-2687
Fax number: (865) 981-8010
Website:
www.maryvillecollege.edu
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| Screen last updated on: January 2009 |
| Year established: |
1819 |
| Type of school: |
college, private (nonprofit) |
| Programs: |
4-year undergraduate |
| Religious affiliation: |
yes |
| Campus enrollment: |
1,176 students |
| Coeducational information: |
coeducational institution, founded as coeducational institution |
| Location description: |
in or near a small/medium city (pop. 75,000-300,000) |
| Application fee: |
$0 |
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| Street address: |
Maryville College
502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway
Maryville, TN 37804-5907 |
| Mailing address: |
Maryville College
502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway
Maryville, TN 37804-5907 |
| Main telephone numbers: |
865 981-8000
800 597-2687 (toll free)
865 981-8010 (fax) |
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| Main homepage: |
www.maryvillecollege.edu |
| Campus map: |
www.maryvillecollege.edu/
about/map.asp |
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| SAT number: |
1454 |
| ACT number: |
3988 |
| FAFSA number: |
003505 |
| FICE number: |
3505 |
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| CAMPUS SUMMARY |
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Maryville College is a private, four-year, co-educational, liberal arts college. Founded in 1819, Maryville is the 12th-oldest institution of higher education in the South and one of the 50 oldest colleges in the United States. The College consistently ranks among U.S. News & World Report’s best colleges in the South. Maryville is also listed in Peterson’s Guide to Competitive Colleges and, as a founding member, became one of only 12 colleges selected by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the National Policy Center on the First Year of College to participate in the national project, “Foundations of Excellence in the First Year of College.”
Mission Statement: Maryville College prepares students for lives of citizenship and leadership as we challenge each one to search for truth, grow in wisdom, work for justice and dedicate a life of creativity and service to the peoples of the world.
Maryville College is located in the city of Maryville, just 15 minutes south of Knoxville, Tennessee's third-largest city. By car, the college is accessible by Interstate 40 from the east and west, and by Interstate 75 from the north and south. McGhee-Tyson Airport is just five miles north of campus.
Ninety-three percent of full-time faculty members have doctoral degrees or appropriate terminal degrees. The student/faculty ratio is 14 to 1, with an average class size of 20. Personalized instruction and student-professor contact are the hallmarks of a Maryville College education. |
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| UNIQUE/SPECIAL PROGRAMS |
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The Maryville Curriculum, a core program of general education, is based on the conviction that liberal learning is the best preparation for a satisfying and successful life, whatever one’s vocation. While many aspects of the college experience, including major-field requirements, allow students to prepare for a variety of careers and professions, general education emphasizes the cultivation of those intellectual and personal qualities that mark the educated person. Through the enhancement of skills and knowledge, the deepening of sensitivities, and the clarification of personal purpose, students learn to deal responsibly with a world of uncertainty and accelerating change.
General education is the centerpiece of any liberal arts degree; it provides curricular definition to the mission of a liberal arts college. The Maryville Curriculum follows directly and consciously from the College’s Statement of Purpose and Educational Goals.
The Maryville Curriculum, often called the “core” curriculum, consists of sixty credit hours for the Bachelor of Arts degree and fifty-four credit hours for the Bachelor of Music degree. Some general education requirements are waived by virtue of the student’s major; others may be met by demonstration of competence.
Distinctive features of the Maryville Curriculum are:
An integrated and sequenced set of first year courses designed to assist in adjustment to college life, to attend to the developmental and learning issues unique to freshmen, and develop the basic communication, quantitative, and critical thinking skills needed for success in college,
A range of coursework that provides grounding in the various modes of inquiry, service learning and in all aspects of the liberal arts,
Courses that are designed for general education, not for a major,
A range of choices for students among courses that fulfill common goals,
Junior- and senior-level courses designed to draw together the college learning experience outside the major and provide integration of liberal learning and the various modes of inquiry,
An emphasis on interdisciplinary coursework spanning the four years,
A strong global and cross-cultural dimension,
Attention to values and ethical decision-making throughout the curriculum, with a capstone course focusing on these matters in the January Term of the senior year,
A curricular structure with integrated freshman and senior experiences that provide coherence along with solid beginnings and a clear culmination to the liberal arts experience. |
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