Contrary to what we sometimes hear, bigger isn’t necessarily better.  

Because we’re small, the class sizes are smaller, which means everyone – students and faculty alike – get to know each other. The result is a supportive community where everyone can help one another succeed, whether in the classroom, while studying abroad or on the playing field. We’ve created a unique, close-knit environment where students from different backgrounds and disciplines are encouraged to learn, grow and explore.

That’s the power of a small college. That’s the power of Linfield.

Linfield College Highlights:

• The Institute of International Education ranked Linfield College 21st among U.S. baccalaureate institutions for participation in study abroad, with half of all Linfield graduates having studied outside the U.S.

• In a 2010 Atlantic magazine article, Linfield is cited first in a list of American colleges and universities where students are still a priority. 

• Linfield offers small classes with caring professors, with a faculty-to-student ratio of 1:12.

• Linfield was one of the country’s top producers of Fulbright scholars in 2006 and 2010, with 22 scholarships awarded in the last 12 years (six in the past two years).

• Eighty-five percent of Linfield's fulltime faculty have a doctorate or terminal degree in their field. View our faculty achievements.

• The Wildcats football team has the longest winning streak of any college football team in the country – 55 consecutive winning seasons.

• Linfield was recognized in the 2011 College Access & Opportunity Guide for support of low-income, first-generation college students.

• Linfield College has been chosen as one of two Pacific Northwest schools to enter the Kemper Scholarship Program, offered to only 16 institutions throughout the nation.

• Linfield athletes lead the state in athlete graduation rates and academic rankings, according to a 2010 NCSA Athletic Recruiting survey.

• Linfield was named one of 26 top picks for high school counselors across the nation, according to Parade Magazine.

• Linfield pioneered online education in the Pacific Northwest and its Division of Continuing Education now serves a virtual learning community of students plugged in from around the globe.

• Linfield is home to the Oregon Nobel Laureate Symposium — one of only five such symposia in the world — which brings Nobel laureates to campus.

• Forbes named Linfield to their 2011 list of the nation’s “Top Colleges.” Four Oregon schools, including Linfield, were included in the top 200 undergraduate institutions.

• The Ayudando Podemos outreach program in the nursing school sparked a three-fold increase in Latino enrollment, and in 2009 received one of three honorary mentions in the nation from Excelencia in Education.

• Linfield has been nationally recognized for its emphasis on sustainability, with The Princeton Review naming the school one of the nation’s top green schools in their 2010 Guide to Green Colleges.

• Huffington Post named Linfield one of seven U.S. schools “worth the tuition.”

• In 2010 the Linfield women’s softball team won second place and the men’s baseball team finished third in the nation in the NCAA Division III championship tournaments.

• German Professor Peter Richardson was named the 2009 Oregon Professor of the Year.

• Linfield was named to the 2010 President’s Community Service Honor Roll for outreach to disadvantaged youth and the homeless, with more than 1,000 students volunteering last year.

• In the book Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money And Failing Our Kids – And What We Can Do About It, Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus praise Linfield for its combination of affordability and excellence.

• Portland’s foremost art critics praise the Linfield Gallery for hosting some of the most innovative art exhibitions in the region.

• Linfield was named to Washington Monthly’s list of the nation’s top 100 liberal arts schools based on community engagement and outreach.

• The National Wildlife Federation’s campus ecology report praised Linfield’s dedication to sustainable initiatives.

• Established in 1858, Linfield is one of the first colleges in the Pacific Northwest, providing an anchor for higher education in the region.