It has been more than 225 years since Dr. Benjamin Rush decided to build a college in a country less than half explored. Yet the themes of the past still resonate. Dickinson remains a community of inquiry that fosters exploration and innovation in the arts and sciences. In a new age of globalization, a Dickinson education instills in its graduates a sense of responsibility not just to the nation but to the world. Dickinson is a model of American residential liberal-arts education—explore the innumerable characteristics (as well as those that can be counted) that make Dickinson distinctive.
