Private · Portland, OR
Lewis & Clark College
Get to know the college, from admissions and cost to life on campus.
Overview
Lewis & Clark has been test-free since 1991, decades before test-optional became a trend: no scores enter the review for anyone, domestic or international. The 137-acre campus sits on Palatine Hill, contiguous with a 645-acre state natural area, so a liberal arts college inside Portland ends up feeling more forested than urban. A Bachelor of Arts split roughly into thirds, gen-ed, major, electives, keeps the structure open.
About Lewis & Clark College
- Type
- Liberal Arts College
- Setting
- Urban
- Undergraduates
- 2,120
Admissions
- Early Decision/Early Action
- Yes
- Accepts Common App
- —
Cost
Tuition and aid
- Full cost of attendance
- $83,548per year
- Average family income
- $107,806
- Students with a school grant
- 100%
- Average school grant
- $37,078
- Average federal debt
- $20,500at graduation
- Need-blind
- —
- Meets full need
- —
- Merit scholarships
- Yes
- CSS Profile
- —
- International aid
- —
Academics
- Majors offered
- 28
- Freshmen who return
- 89%
- Notable
- No TAsevery class is taught by faculty, not graduate students
Students
Campus life
- Setting
- Urban
- Location
- Portland, OR
- Live on campus
- —
- Student organizations
- —
- Varsity sports
- —
The 137-acre campus sits atop Palatine Hill in Portland's Collins View neighborhood, contiguous with the 645-acre Tryon Creek State Natural Area, so the setting reads far more forested than the address suggests. 21 varsity teams draw in 22% of undergrads as athletes, and the college leans into a stated identity of belonging and inclusive spaces, with identity-based student organizations and a New Student Experience built to ease the transition. Residential communities are described as central to how friendships form here, alumni testimony the college leads with directly. Study abroad runs unusually deep: 82% of surveyed alumni say it shaped their career, a real signal it's core to the culture, not a brochure line.
Summarized by Spike from what students write: Lewis & Clark Student Life, Lewis & Clark College (Wikipedia).
Outcomes
- Earnings 6 years in
- $47,800
- Graduate within 6 years
- 73%
- Average federal debt
- $20,500
- Graduates go into
- Nike HQ, Kilo D’ Cofi, Critical Language Scholarship
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