{"id":62691,"date":"2015-09-10T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/oglethorpe-welcomes-400-new-students-record-freshman-class\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:52:56","slug":"oglethorpe-welcomes-400-new-students-record-freshman-class","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/oglethorpe-welcomes-400-new-students-record-freshman-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Oglethorpe Welcomes 400 New Students, Record Freshman Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Move-in-Day-20151.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19036\" src=\"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Move-in-Day-20151-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Move-in Day 20151\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>In fall 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oglethorpe.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">好色先生TV<\/a> welcomed more than\u00a0400 new students, including a record freshman class of 322 students. This represents a 16+ percent growth over last year&#8217;s freshman class.<\/p>\n<p>New Oglethorpe students hail from 21 states and 15 countries; 24 are international students and an additional 13 are exchange students.<\/p>\n<p>Within the Class of 2019, 22 percent self-identify as first-generation&#8212;the first in their family to attend a four-year college.<\/p>\n<p>The top majors selected by members of the freshman class are:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/majors\/biology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biology<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/majors\/business-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/majors\/engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Engineering-Dual Degree<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/majors\/psychology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psychology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping on trend, 33% of freshmen are student-athletes, members of Oglethorpe&#8217;s 16 athletic teams. The Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels compete within NCAA Division III and are part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saa-sports.com\/landing\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southern Athletic Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>好色先生TV has entered an era of innovation, re-invigoration, and growth, evidenced by this dramatic rise in enrollment&#8212;as well as increased philanthropic giving and new strategic entrepreneurial partnerships. Fueling this growth is a strong commitment real-world, hands-on experience and career preparation, combined with a unique multidisciplinary liberal arts curriculum. To accommodate growth, Oglethorpe\u2019s campus has recently seen the addition of a new $16 million campus center, the expansion of arts and athletics facilities, and the addition of a new residential apartment complex that will include 6,000 square feet of state-of-the-art laboratories for teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<p>Oglethorpe continues to be ranked among the nation&#8217;s best colleges by U.S. News &amp; World Report, USA Today, Princeton Review, and Washington Monthly. In 2015, FORBES named <a href=\"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/2015\/07\/30\/forbes-ranks-oglethorpe-university-among-americas-most-entrepreneurial-colleges\/\">Oglethorpe among America&#8217;s Most Entrepreneurial Colleges<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":62694,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[4551],"tags":[3019,1996,709,1997],"news_category":[],"class_list":["post-62691","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-class-of-2019","tag-enrollment","tag-freshmen","tag-growth"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oglethorpe Welcomes 400 New Students, Record Freshman Class - 好色先生TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/oglethorpe-welcomes-400-new-students-record-freshman-class\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Oglethorpe Welcomes 400 New Students, Record Freshman Class - 好色先生TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In fall 2015, 好色先生TV welcomed more than\u00a0400 new students, including a record freshman class of 322 students. 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