Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott: Leading Everywhere

As a school featured in Colleges That Change Lives, Agnes Scott College will guide you down the path to becoming a more reflective, intelligent, and compassionate global citizen and a fearlessly confident future leader by the end of your four years of study. At Agnes Scott, you’ll grow as a person, discover your strengths, and build confidence. Through SUMMIT, our unique approach to a liberal arts education, you’ll receive personalized advising to help you choose a major, build leadership skills, and gain global perspectives.

As a Scottie (as Agnes Scott students are called), you’ll spend four years with brilliant students who won’t suffer fools, stand for injustice, or tolerate prejudice. You'll become someone who never settles—who questions, confronts, and debates—all within an inclusive women’s college setting located not far from the southern hub of Atlanta.

This is a place where curiosity meets exploration; where strength, honor, and compassion are melded into leadership; and where you’ll be immersed in a culture that emphasizes scholarship and encourages you to advocate for what you believe in. Here, “Leading Everywhere” is more than just a tagline—it’s a way of life. If our style of life-changing undergraduate learning experience interests you, read on future Scottie.

The unique SUMMIT advantage
Our alumni often refer to their Agnes Scott experience as transformative. That’s the power of a small liberal arts-inclusive women’s college in a large metropolitan city. Our SUMMIT experience—which earned the College the designation as the #1 "Most Innovative Liberal Arts Colleges" in the country by U.S. News & World Report—reinvents a liberal arts education for the 21^st century and is exclusively available at Agnes Scott. SUMMIT allows every student to dive into a core curriculum focused on global learning, leadership development, and professional success that integrates coursework with experiences in Atlanta and around the world. This ensures all our students, regardless of major, are prepared to become leaders in our global society.

Under SUMMIT, the College also has been recognized as #1 among schools for "First-Year Experiences" in the country for five consecutive years. Here, you’ll read and learn as widely as possible and then discuss and debate new ideas, guided by professors who will expect a lot and push you to be your best. In addition, successful leaders are prepared by strong mentors and broad social networks. That’s why all Agnes Scott students receive customized advising from day one, including peer advising, major advising, and close work with a SUMMIT Advisor and career advisors. Your personalized advising experience will help you adjust to college and design an educational plan that will prepare you for post-graduate success.

Your first year will include foundational courses in global learning and leadership development in addition to an immersive leadership retreat during orientation. In the spring, you’ll also go on a week-long, faculty-led global immersion experience to a location like Northern Ireland, France, Ghana, Iceland, New York City, Peru, or Martinique. The cost of this travel experience is included in Agnes Scott’s tuition, making it a possibility for all students.

Campus life
Our students enjoy a vibrant living-learning community on our 100-acre tree-filled campus. The beauty of our campus is so notable that more than 30 movies and television shows have been filmed at Agnes Scott. Even better than studying while surrounded by stunning Gothic architecture, through your involvement in our time-honored campus traditions and student organizations, you’ll forge lifelong friendships while living with a little over 1,000 brilliant, diverse students.  

Your professional success
To be truly successful in their fields, our Scotties are challenged to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-world situations—which is why 80% of our students complete either an internship or mentored research project (and sometimes both). You’ll find opportunities to polish your writing, research, and speaking skills by presenting at academic conferences, either at an event specific to your field or at our Spring Annual Research Conference (SpARC). You’ll gain further appreciation of world cultures by participating in a faculty-led or independent study abroad.

Post-graduation, our alums follow their passions all the way to the top, whether that means summiting the highest peaks on each of the seven continents; leading a Fortune 500 company; serving as a chief of justice; winning a Pulitzer Prize, Oscar, Grammy, or Tony; or starting a mobile bookstore. Since the 1920s, Agnes Scott has been in the top 6% of American colleges whose graduates go on to earn PhDs or a terminal degree in their field. With 96% of our students in graduate school or working in their field a year out from graduation, our graduates are ready to take on the world as soon as they walk across the stage. There is no limit to what an Agnes Scott graduate can accomplish.

If you’ve read this far, why not plan a campus visit? We’d love to meet you, and you deserve a chance to see our campus for yourself! Schedule your campus tour today at agnesscott.edu/visit. Can’t make it to campus? Take our virtual campus tour instead at agnesscott.edu/virtualtour.