rollins IS REAL
A Rollins
EDUCATION means: A top-ranked academic program featuring individualized attention from award-winning faculty and staff. A picturesque lakeside environment with weather that is so consistently beautiful, classes are often held outdoors. A passion for community engagement that is so deeply engrained we have been recognized by the Corporation for National and Community Service with the highest honor a college can receive. Access to some of the world’s preeminent thought leaders, Nobel Prize winners, poets laureate, activists and artists who we routinely bring to campus for dialogue and discussion.
While you can certainly discern a lot about Rollins by reading about us online and in brochures like this, to really get to know Rollins, you will have to visit campus.
COME SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT.
COME
ONE...
Individual visits can be planned through the Office of Admission. Information sessions are available every weekday and on occasional Saturdays. DURING YOUR VISIT: Meet with students and professors to discuss academics and extracurricular activities. Tour our classrooms, labs, residence halls, theater, athletic facilities and library. Dine with students in the Cornell Campus Center and enjoy grilled salmon, braised beef short ribs or hand-rolled sushi (you can’t really order wrong at one of the top 50 most delicious college campuses in America, according to TheDailyMeal). Sit in on the class of your choosing (two weeks advance notice required).
...or COME ALL. Twice each fall, we host “Discover Rollins” days designed specifically for prospective students and their families. These open houses will allow you to get to know Rollins in a group setting where you will: Learn about the admission and financial aid processes, including opportunities for merit scholarships. Meet with faculty, admission counselors and students. Tour campus. Dine with both current and prospective students.
To schedule your campus visit today, call our Visitor Liaison at 407.646.1573 or go to rollins.edu/visit-rollins.
THIS LOOKS
EVEN BETTER IN
PERSON.
We are located in Winter Park, Florida, on 70 acres of lakelush greenery. Your campus tour will include views of our Mediterranean architecture, Spanish moss-covered walkways and beautiful Lake Virginia, not to mention the breezes that come with it. You will be within walking distance of the many shops, restaurants and galleries on Park Avenue and within driving distance of all the cultural opportunities that a major metropolitan city like Orlando affords.
STOP IN AND SEE OUR SCIENCE CENTER The Bush Science Center contains 38 teaching and research laboratories, an observatory and a separate twostory psychology wing that features a sleep lab. The building itself is trimmed in travertine marble, which 5 is the same stone that was used to build the Colosseum in Rome.
BEAUTIFUL
CAMPUS.
BRILLIANT FACULTY.
Associate Professor Dorothy Mays Romance Writers of America RITA award recipient Associate Professor Julian Chambliss Florida Campus Compact Service-Learning Faculty Award winner
Professor Thom Moore Former Florida Professor of the Year
During your individual visit to campus, you will have the option of sitting in on the class of your choice. And with a faculty that’s been ranked 8th best in the country by RateMyProfessors, you might have a hard time choosing. Whether you observe physics with Professor Thom Moore, a history course led by Associate Professor Julian Chambliss or genre fiction with Associate Professor Dorothy Mays, you will have landed in the classroom of an award-winning expert and will be sure to learn something new. You will also get a sense for how passionate our faculty is about teaching, how closely they work with their pupils and how invested they are in student success.
SEE WHERE YOU’LL LIVE. More than 70% of our students choose to live on campus in one of our 17 residential facilities, which include apartments, sorority and fraternity houses and traditional residence halls. Living Learning Communities (also called LLCs) bring first-year students together with upper-class mentors as they pursue common academic interests in a shared living and learning space. Many of these facilities feature views of the lake, outdoor volleyball courts and quiet study spaces. One of them even hosts a residentsonly lagoon-style pool.
Visit rollins.edu/reslife to learn more.
“This feeling started when I was driving down Park Avenue,
I just had a feeling of home.
IT WAS AN
OVERWHELMING SENSE OF BELONGING.” —Erin Brioso ’14
COME SEE IF ROLLINS IS THE PLACE FOR YOU. Schedule your campus visit today by calling our Visitor Liaison at 407.646.1573 or going to rollins.edu/visit-rollins.
To schedule your campus visit today, call our Visitor Liaison at 407.646.1573 or go to rollins.edu/visit-rollins.
AWARDS AND RANKINGS: Number one-ranked college in the South (U.S. News & World Report), NCAA Presidents’ Award winner for Academic Excellence (NCAA Division II Schools), the most philanthropic college campus in America (BestCollegesOnline) and a top producer of Fulbright Scholars (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
ATHLETICS: 23 men’s and women’s varsity athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division II Sunshine State Conference and have combined to win 22 national championships and 68 conference championships
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS: More than 100
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL AID: More than 80% of students receive financial aid
AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 17
STUDENTS: 1,884 undergraduates from almost all 50 states and 50 different countries
LOCATION: On the shores of Lake Virginia in Winter Park, Florida, 10 minutes from downtown Orlando
ESTABLISHED: 1885
ROLLINS COLLEGE AT A GLANCE
ROLLINS.EDU
Rollins College 1000 Holt Ave.—2720 Winter Park, FL 32789 407.646.2161
NON-PROFIT U.S. POSTAGE PAID ROLLINS COLLEGE