Colleges That Change Lives (2000) by Loren Pope:
Beloit’s First-Year Initiatives and Sophomore Year Programs create “a sense of belonging and [provide] a way to help adolescents confront problems, air frustrations, and make choices at the critical periods of their first two years. It’s more than a successful plan, it’s palpable in the atmosphere, in the attitudes of faculty members and administrators, and in the way the students talk about their lives [at Beloit].”
“It is not unusual for [Beloit] students to be co-authors with faculty members of papers presented at professional meetings, and occasionally of a book. It would be unusual for an undergraduate to have this kind of excitement or get this kind of recognition at a university.”
U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges, 2000
The 14th annual report of "America's Best Colleges" ranks Beloit 47th among 160 national liberal arts colleges in its "best colleges" category. In related rankings from the national news publication, Beloit College ranked third in the nation in the percentage of international students on campus (11%). Because of its dramatically low ratio of 11 students to each faculty member and the fact that 78% of Beloit’s classes have 20 or fewer students, Beloit is ranked among the top 15 colleges in the country in faculty resources. Once again, Beloit has also been selected in the "Best Values" category, which correlates an institution's academic quality with the cost of attendance.
aMagazine: Inside Asian America, August/September 2000
a Magazine, a publication exploring the social, academic, administrative and financial factors of interest to Asian-Americans, ranks Beloit College 12th in the nation among liberal arts colleges for Asian-American students.
Daystar Guide to Colleges for African American Students, 2000
The study, completed over the past two years by Daystar Educational Research in Baltimore, reviews some 1,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. based on their academic, learning, and social environment for African-American students. Beloit College was profiled as one of the 100 top schools in the country for African-Americans, with a strong focus on its racial and cultural diversity and the opportunities offered for study off-campus and abroad.
The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, 1999:
“[S]tudent contact with the Beloit faculty does not end when class ends: professors often support their students by attending various school activities.”
The Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2000:
“Beloit’s educational opportunities begin the moment a student walks on campus.”
“Beloit’s alternative programs and educational strengths attract an independent and diverse student body from 49 states and [55] countries. Race relations are relaxed on this campus, where 21 percent of students are minorities.”
“Students are supportive of one another, and may form informal study groups. Teaching is the faculty’s first priority.”
“Beloit is an academically rigorous East Coast liberal arts institution blended with the freer spirit and slower pace of life of the Midwest. The school tends to draw students who are looking for their own path, but who want to make sure that path is lined with rigorous academics and interesting friends”
“Beloit takes into account the needs of each student and encourages matriculants to invent themselves. Just look at a college T-shirt: BELOIT COLLEGE: STAND OUT FROM THE HERD!”
The Princeton Review: The Best 311 Colleges, 1999:
“All this activity in such a concentrated space creates an intense but positive environment; Beloit students report themselves happier with their overall college experience than many students we surveyed elsewhere.”
“Beloit’s intimacy offers students opportunities to shine that simply aren’t as readily accessible at larger schools . . .The experience here seems to foster intellectual curiosity.”
Literary Magazine Review, Spring 1996:
“For whatever reason, Beloit, Wisconsin has been important to the publication of serious writing in the U.S. out of all proportion to its size.”
Making A Difference College Guide (1995), Miriam Weinstein:
“Pluralism, the idea of a society with numerous distinct, ethnic, religious, and cultural groups peacefully co-existing, is a . . . concept Beloit stresses. What they share is a kind of practical idealism, a deep respect for individuality and diversity, and a commitment to making diversity work.”
“Life is the test Beloit College wants you to pass."