Why E-town?

• Elizabethtown College has been ranked for 12 consecutive years as one of the best comprehensive colleges in the North by U.S. News & World Report.” Elizabethtown was also named the #2 comprehensive college in the North in the magazine’s "Best Values" rankings. The College is also listed in “Barron’s Guide to the Most Prestigious Colleges” and “Peterson’s Competitive Colleges.”
• Elizabethtown was identified by high school counselors as one of 80 colleges nationwide that “excel in promoting the ‘student’ aspect of the student-athlete.” Elizabethtown was chosen as a “Counselors’ Pick” – a school that excels in academic engagement, teaching, community and outcomes – by a national group of high school counselors assembled by College Athletes, a website for students looking to combine athletics with academics at a NCAA Division III college.
• Elizabethtown received a $450,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation to assist with the construction of the James B. Hoover Center for Business.
• Elizabethtown was one of 17 U.S. cultural institutions to receive a $500,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Challenge Grant, which will be used to create an endowment to support the work of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
• Chris Williams '05 of Dillsburg, Pa., a business administration major and member of the men’s cross country and track teams, was awarded a $7,500 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He will pursue graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and School of Business, where he plans to complete two degrees, a master of international development and a master of business administration.
• Amy Milligan '04 was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study Radical Pietism at Phillips University in Marburg, Germany. A dual major in German and religious studies from Broomall, Pa., Milligan returned to Marburg, where she previously studied through Brethren Colleges Abroad, to work on a project titled “Radical Pietism Then and Now: Roots, Development, and Impact upon Biblical Interpretation.”
• Education professor Terry Blue was one of 44 members appointed to serve on Gov. Edward G. Rendell’s Training America’s Teacher’s Commission, which is charged with improving upon Pennsylvania’s excellent reputation as a national leader in teacher training.