Goucher College, located in Towson, Maryland boasts a beautiful, rural campus with easy access to the city of Baltimore. The college was founded in 1885 by Rev. John Franklin Goucher, and was originally located in downtown Baltimore. For its first 25 years, it was called the Woman’s College of Baltimore, and continued to be an institution for women until 1986, when it opened its doors to male students. The college moved to its beautiful, 287-acre wooded campus in 1954.

Goucher is a small, private, liberal arts college with no fraternities or sororities. It does, however, have an active campus life with 81 percent of students living in some sort of college housing, while only 19 percent live off campus. Of the nearly 1,500 undergraduate students enrolled, approximately 67 percent are female. The college also hosts around 900 graduate students, offering 10 master’s degree programs and several certificate programs. Goucher College has a high graduation rate of around 70 percent, and while tuition is relatively high they also have an excellent financial aid program with 91 percent of qualifying freshmen receiving financial aid.

The college’s motto is “Gratia et Veritas,” which translates from Latin as “Grace and Truth.” Goucher has an average acceptance rate. It boasts small class sizes with the average being just 17 students, …show more content…
The school offers more than 60 study abroad programs in over 30 countries. Goucher proclaims the philosophy of its liberal arts program to be reflection, relationships, and resilience. As a liberal arts college, its curriculum is centered around certain ideals, including effective communication skills in both English and a foreign language and foundational understandings of abstract reasoning, problem-solving, environmental sustainability, social structures, scientific methods, and historical