Agnes Scott College, founded in 1889, is an independent national liberal arts college for women located in the metropolitan Atlanta area, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Student Body as of Fall 2009
- 881 students
- Our undergraduate students come from 45 states and territories and 27 countries; 91 percent of traditional students live on campus
- 8 percent of our students are international.
- One third of Agnes Scott students are underrepresented minorities.
- More than half of Agnes Scott students will study abroad before they graduate.
- Agnes Scott’s honor system is one of the oldest in the country; our student self-government recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
- Historically and presently, Agnes Scott students have earned academia’s most prestigious scholarships including the Rhodes, Fulbright, Goldwater and the Pickering Fellowship.
Admission and Financial Aid
- Class of 2013 total enrollment: 237
- 17 percent of the class of 2013 graduated in the top 5 percent of their high school class; 33 percent were in the top 10 percent or better
- 68 percent of the class of 2013 attended public schools.
- Acceptance rate: 46 percent
- Enrollment Yield: 26 percent
- Mean High School GPA: 3.57
- Middle 50% range of SAT: 1040-1270 (critical reading and mathematics only)
- Middle 50% range of ACT: 22-28
- 70 percent of students qualify for and receive need-based financial aid
- The average need-based institutional award is roughly $9,215.
Athletics
The Scotties have six varsity teams (basketball, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball) that play at the NCAA Division III level.
Our President
In Fall 2006, Elizabeth Kiss (pronounced “quiche”) became the eighth president of Agnes Scott College. Kiss is the former Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics and an associate professor of the practice of political science and philosophy at Duke University. She was the first female Rhodes Scholar at her alma mater, Davidson College. She earned her B. Phil. and D. Phil. degrees in philosophy at Oxford University. Learn more about President Kiss.
Academic Programs
Finances
- Comprehensive fee for 2009-2010 is $39,955, which includes tuition, fees, and room and board
- Endowment value as June 2009: approximately $230 million.
- Annual budget: $43 million
Campus
Agnes Scott sits on 100 acres shaded with some of the state’s oldest trees. Our hometown is Decatur, a city that lies six miles from the center of Atlanta. MARTA (Atlanta’s rapid transit) stops three blocks from campus.
The Collegiate Gothic and Victorian red brick-and-stone buildings have won national awards for design and resulted in Agnes Scott’s recognition for the second most-beautiful campus in the country by The Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges (2006). Our campus consists of 29 buildings and an apartment complex.
A $120 million building program in the past decade added a new campus center, chapel and the multidisciplinary Mary Brown Bullock Science Center. There were also major renovations to the library, dining hall and observatory in addition to landscape/hardscape and parking improvements.
Distinguished Alumnae
Marsha Norman ’69x, H’05, won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, ’night, Mother. She has adapted other works for Broadway plays, including the musicals, The Color Purple and The Secret Garden, for which she received a Tony award. Norman is also a faculty member at The Julliard School.
Katherine “Kay” Krill ’77, was named CEO of Ann Taylor Stores Corporation in 2004. A psychology major, Krill joined the company in 1994 and was instrumental in the creation and launch of Ann Taylor Loft, one of the company’s most successful divisions. Krill became Executive Vice President of Ann Taylor Loft in 1996 and was promoted to president of that division in 2001.
2007 Grammy Award winner Jennifer Nettles ’97 was a successful solo musician with folk and country roots before joining the band Sugarland in 2003. The group was nominated for a 2006 Grammy in the Best New Artist category. In 2005, the band won an American Music Award for Favorite New Artist. In 2006, Nettles again made the Billboard Top 100 for a duet with Jon Bon Jovi, the single “Who Says You Can’t Go Home?” The song won Nettles and Bon Jovi the Grammy for Best Country Collaboration.
Jean Toal ’65 is Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, the first and only woman to hold that position. In 2006, she was quoted in Cambridge University Press’ Reconceiving the Family, Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. She is past president of the Conference of Chief Judges and immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts.
Ila Burdette ’81 was a mathematics major named Georgia’s first woman Rhodes scholar in 1980. She later earned her master’s degree from Oxford University. She is now a practicing architect known for her work designing special-needs environments, such as hospices and homes for the elderly.
—Last updated October 2009