Freshman Applicants
The University of Delaware is a premier co-educational institution of 15,000+ undergraduate students. Â The campus is located in Newark, Delaware, about halfway between New York City and Washington, DC. Â The location is ideal for students who want the advantages of a small, safe community and easy access to the educational, cultural, and social opportunities offered in nearby metropolitan areas.
Undergraduates may choose to major in any one of 125 academic majors. The University's distinguished faculty includes internationally known scientists, authors and teachers, who are committed to continuing the University of Delaware's tradition in providing one of the highest quality undergraduate educations available.
Recent Accolades
The University of Delaware (UD) has had the most recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship (three) of any public college or university nationally in the last five years. The private institutions tied with UD having three Rhodes Scholarship recipients in those five years are Brown, Stanford and Washington universities and the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. The only private institutions with more than three Rhodes Scholarship recipients in the past five years are Duke, Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities, the University of Chicago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. UD has had 11 Rhodes Scholars since the program began in 1904.
In a recent Carnegie Foundation report that was generally critical of current undergraduate education at large research universities, UD was among only five institutions commended for "making research-based learning the standard." Delaware was praised for adopting problem-based learning in all basic science classes "to promote active learning and connect concepts to applications."
Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine named UD as the 14th among 100 best values in public colleges. An article, "A Degree of Value," in Kiplinger's October 2000 issue looked at the best values among public colleges and universities.
The UD Undergraduate Research Program (URP) has been a trailblazer in providing opportunities for research experience for capable and motivated students. In 1997, UD was selected from more than 100 research-intensive universities nationwide to receive a three-year $500,000 Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education (RAIRE) from the National Science Foundation. More than 90 percent of all engineering, biological and physical science professors at UD now actively participate in undergraduate research opportunities.
The University of Delaware's Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management (HRIM) has been ranked 7th in the top 25 hospitality programs in the country, tied with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, one of the oldest and most established programs in the country, and ahead of many more well-known programs, according to an article in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, published by the Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education.
UD ranks 6th among research institutions across the nation for the total number of students participating in study abroad and percentage of participation in study abroad programs, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). According to a UD study comparing the percentage of students studying abroad to the total enrollment, UD ranks seventh in the nation .