Academics
Furman offers majors and programs in 42 subjects. Undergraduates come from 46 states and 31 countries. Furman has produced six Rhodes scholars and 17 Truman scholars.
The middle 50 percent of SAT scores for the class entering Fall 2010 had the ranges: Verbal: 590 to 690, Quantitative: 590 to 690, Total: 1200 to 1380. However, neither SAT nor ACT scores are required for admission.
All students must complete general education requirements as part of the liberal arts curriculum. The general education requirements include mind and body wellness, textual analysis, two natural sciences, math/formal reasoning, two empirical studies of human behavior, history, ultimate question, foreign language, and world culture.
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Famous quotes containing the word academics:
“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)