Facts

Date of founding

1885

Degrees granted

B.A.; B.P.S.; M.A.; M.A.T.; M.Ed.; M.F.A.; M.S.; P.B.C.; P.M.C.

Size of student body (Fall 2018)

Undergraduates     -    1425                                                     

Graduate students   -    745                                                   

Undergraduate majors  -    33                                          

Undergraduate courses offered    -      350        

Full- and part-time undergraduate faculty  -   175

Degrees granted -     24,600                               

Endowment   -      $214,921,000                       

Preparation of undergraduates

Public school                             65%

Private school                            34%

Home school                                1%

Size of campus

287 acres

Size of undergraduate classes

30+                                                3%

20-29                                            25%

10-19                                            52%

2-9                                                19%

Library volumes

Number of print items: 256,339

Number of ebooks: 348,929

Number of electronic journals: 150,000 (approximate)

Number of media materials, CDs, DVDS, and streaming files: 66,872

Undergraduate student: faculty ratio

10:1

The college seal

The shield within the seal of Goucher College bears against a gold ground, an open book inscribed “I. Thess. Ch. V. Vs. 21” (Prove all things, hold fast that which is good). Below, in the lower left quarter, against a blue field, are three lilies; in the lower right corner are the arms of the state of Maryland and the arms of the family of Lord Baltimore.

College colors

Blue and gold

College flowers

Ragged robin and coreopsis

College presidents

William Hersey Hopkins, 1886-90

John Franklin Goucher, 1891-1908

Eugene Allen Noble, 1908-11

John Blackford Van Meter, acting, 1911-13

William Westley Guth, 1913-29

Hans Froelicher, acting, May 1929-January 1930

Dorothy Stimson, acting, January 1930-June 1930

David Allan Robertson, 1930-48

Otto Frederick Kraushaar, 1948-67

Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., 1967-73

Rhoda Mary Dorsey, 1974-94; acting, 1973-74

Judy Jolley Mohraz, 1994-2000

Robert Stephen Welch, acting, 2000-01

Sanford Jerome Ungar, 2001-14

José Antonio Bowen, 2014-19

Kent Devereaux, 2019-

Accreditation

Goucher College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The Elementary Education Program, Special Education Program, and the Secondary Education Program have been approved by the Maryland State Department of Education. The Chemistry Program is approved by the American Chemical Society.

Student profile (Fall 2018)

Total enrollment                                            

2170

Total candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts                    

1423

First-year students                                        

477

Sophomores                           

382

Juniors                                                                

308

Seniors                                                                

256

Non-candidate undergraduates     

2

Total undergraduate students        

1425

Full-time undergraduates                

1403

Part-time undergraduates               

22

Undergraduate residents/on campus          

83%

Master of Education          

299

Master of Arts-Teaching   

131 

Master of Arts-Historic Preservation, Cultural Sustainability, Digital Arts, Environmental Studies, and Management 

75

Master of Fine Arts                                                        

34

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate-Teaching, Professional Development   

128

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate-Premedical        

33

Other non-candidate graduate students

45

Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP)

100

Geographic Distribution of Undergraduates (Fall 2018)