2008

St. Andrews was included in Colleges of Distinction, a guidebook profiling America's best bets in higher education.

“We are pleased that St. Andrews was included in this year’s edition. St. Andrews has always made an effort to be an inclusive community that provides opportunity to all interested students. Having this effort acknowledged in print is just another affirmation of the quality and accessibility of a St. Andrews education.”

- Paul Baldasare Jr., St. Andrews President

"Low Debt Colleges," U.S. News & World Report

Places St. Andrews in the top 20 nationally for lowest debt among graduating seniors at liberal arts colleges.

“America’s Best Colleges,” US News and World Report

Ranked annually as one of the 215 institutions comprising the “nation’s best liberal arts schools”.

The Washington Monthly names St. Andrews as one of the nation's top 200 liberal arts colleges for three years straight.

Jay Mathews, “20 Undiscovered Gems,” The Washington Post (April 6, 2003), Education Review supplement, page W19.

“ These people are alchemists,” says Suzy Hallock-Bannigan, a counselor at Woodstock Union High School in Vermont. “It seems they develop their students to the max and love them forever.”

Jay Mathews, Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League to the College that is Best for You (Crown Publishing Group, 2003), 290pp.

“ With 660 students, she adds, “it’s a small and intimate sort of place.” Alice T. Ledford, of the American International School in Riyadh, calls St. Andrews “a jewel hidden away in southern North Carolina. It is a four-year liberal arts school that is a cozy environment. Strong students will find that they can develop meaningful relationships with their Ph.D. professors and learn in more of a graduate school method than an undergraduate. Because class sizes are small, there are many opportunities to learn directly from experts instead of grad students.”

“A Classification of Institutions of Higher Education,” Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Listed in 2000 as one of the 213 institutions comprising the “Baccalaureate Colleges-Liberal Arts” category. Listed in 1994 as one of the 188 institutions comprising the “Liberal Arts Colleges I” category.

Loren Pope, Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You Are Not A Straight-A Student, Revised (Penguin Group, 2000), 320pp.

“ St. Andrews is a college that has National Merit Scholars. No one slides through. Students get involved in a community that encourages both participation and intellectual exploration. The college takes pride in a near perfect record of medical school acceptances of the seniors it recommends. A St. Andrews alumnus in Emory University’s MBA program was picked by Proctor and Gamble out of 100 applicants for a special internship. The interviewers were particularly impressed by his ability to communicate easily with different kinds of people, something St. Andrews had taught him.”

The Princeton Review

“ St. Andrews Presbyterian College, located two hours east of Charlotte, NC, boasts an equestrian team with [five] national titles, a famous bagpipes band, a weekly writers’ forum, and [a] therapeutic riding major.”

Peterson’s College and University Almanac

“St. Andrews students experience diversity and develop tolerance. They explore responsible living on a global scale, are encouraged to develop individual responsibility, and are challenged to expect the best of themselves and to contribute their best to the world.”

Loren Pope, Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You, Revised (Viking Penguin, 1995), 254pp.

“St. Andrews in North Carolina plays an essential role in the collegiate scheme. It has nurtured, broadened, and strengthened many a young person with a fragile self-image. An Ivy school alumnus said everything turned out well for his son because ‘we found this great little college in North Carolina that did wonders for him.’ I knew without being told he was talking about St. Andrews.”

Colleges That Enable (Park Avenue Press, 1989), 18pp.

“Ideally situated between the beaches and the mountains of North Carolina, Laurinburg offers the dual advantages of small-town friendliness and an unusual diversity of industries that welcome student interns.”

Award of Merit, North Carolina, American Institute of Architects St. Andrews Presbyterian College Science Building

“A wide open lab—an innovative science curriculum dictated the design of this multidisciplinary laboratory.”

Fortune “Up from Gothic”

“Reflective modern is the style of St. Andrews Presbyterian College’s student union in Laurinburg, NC.”

Architectural Record

Report on Student Unions
“ The focal point [of the] campus is this open glass-walled student union. As a social center, its design was conceived to contrast with the more enclosed study areas in the other buildings, and to afford views of the adjoining lake and rest of the campus.”