Why Hiram?


  • If you are thinking about graduate school, Hiram College tops the charts. On average, 30% of Hiram alumni go on to graduate or professional school within nine months of earning their Hiram degree. Over 60% go on within five years.
  • Almost 50% of all Hiram students study off-campus, more than twice the national average.
  • In addition to developing solid knowledge of academic subjects, Hiram students learn how to apply that knowledge in real-world, practical environments. Almost every one of Hiram's departmental majors offers an internship or field experience for academic credit.
  • "Hiram's bio majors work at a 390-acre college-owned ecology field study station a mile from campus, with a specialized lab, a 70-acre beech and maple forest, an artificial river, and numerous plant and animal species. Future tycoons and Pulitzer Prize winners don't get the same fieldwork opportunities as the budding doctors and researchers [at Hiram]."
    --from The Fiske Guide to Colleges
  • "The Hiram Plan allows students to cover a breadth of material in three courses during the longer 12-week sessions, and to focus on a seminar-style class during the additional 3-week session. Even nonseminars are small, though; most courses have 25 or fewer students which leads to impressive faculty accessibility."
    --from The Fiske Guide to Colleges
  • Hiram is the only affiliate college of the Shoals Marine Lab, which is located in Appleton, Maine, and run by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. The lab offers summer programs in marine science, ecology, coastal and oceanic law, and underwater archeology.
  • "Uniformly strong science programs set this tiny liberal arts college apart from many otherwise fine schools of similar size. Want proof? Over the past ten years, Hiram's medical school acceptance rate has been among the highest in the nation."
    --from The Princeton Review's Best 311 Colleges
  • "Concern for the student's personal as well as academic welfare is one of the qualities that makes Hiram such a warm and happy place and such an exceptional college. It is one of the reasons why young people find their power and their confidence burgeoning and why they talk about realizing potentials they didn't know they had when they came there. More than a wonderful place, Hiram is a national asset."
    --from Colleges That Change Lives
  • "Hiram has a long history of great success in medical and graduate school admission. In a far more competitive area, veterinary school, Hiram tops every college in Ohio State University's region in the number admitted, and by a ratio of three to one."
    --from Colleges That Change Lives
  • Hiram is one of only 13% of all four year colleges in the U.S. to be granted a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honor society.
  • Hiram's Writing across the Curriculum program pays off. In the 2002 ECC literary competition, Hiram students received the first and second place awards for short fiction, third place in the poetry division, and five honorable mentions.
  • For the 2004-2005 academic year, Hiram awarded more than $7 million to students in the form of merit scholarships and need-based grants.