Highlights

Our students represent the next generation of global thinkers and leaders, unafraid to discard conventional thinking, civic complacency, and outmoded preconceptions. Yet they value what Lewis and Clark offers: an education built from the time-tested elements of careful study, original research, and spirited debate.

So what makes the experience of our students unique? How about the inspiring beauty of our natural setting, on 137 wooded acres in Portland's southwest hills. Or our rich history and our diverse, multicultural present. Or our commitment to interdisciplinary academic learning, as well as community engagement here in Portland and around the world.

University Attributes

The mission of Lewis and Clark College is to know the traditions of the liberal arts, to test their boundaries through constant exploration, and to hand on to successive generations the tools and results of this quest. By these means the College pursues the aims of all liberal learning: to seek knowledge for its own sake and to prepare for civic leadership.

The College carries out this mission through undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences and postgraduate programs in the closely related professions of education, counseling, and law. The College mounts these programs as both separately valid and mutually supportive enterprises. In all its endeavors it seeks to be a community of scholars who are alive to inquiry, open to diversity, and disciplined to work in an interdependent world.

Degrees Available

• Bachelor of Arts

Degree Level

Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Subject Areas

Experience Required

no

Application Process Involves

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Letters of Reference
• Transcript
• Written Application
• Essay

Post Services Include

• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

Lewis and Clark College's Mission Statement

The mission of Lewis & Clark College is to know the traditions of the liberal arts, to test their boundaries through ongoing exploration and to hand on to successive generations the tools and discoveries of this quest. By these means the College pursues the aims of all liberal learning: to seek knowledge for its own sake and to prepare for civic leadership. The College carries out this mission through undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences and postgraduate programs in the closely related professions of education, counseling and law. The College mounts these programs as both separately valid and mutually supportive enterprises. In all its endeavors it seeks to be a coummunity of scholars who are alive to inquiry, open to diversity, and disciplined to work in an interdependent world.

Year Founded

1867