P.S. Facts

Have you noticed the P.S. facts at the bottom of many of our Web site pages? Here they are, all together:�

• Puget Sound offers more than 40 major programs.
• Puget Sound has innovative interdisciplinary programs, such as International Political Economy.
• "Log Jam" is a campus-wide celebration that ends the first week of fall classes.
• The Puget Sound student-to-faculty ratio is 11-to-1.
• "Foolish Pleasures" is an annual festival of digital films written, directed, acted, and produced by students.
• The Hatchet is the symbol of the Loggers, Puget Sound's varsity teams.
• Puget Sound's radio station, KUPS "The Sound," at 90.1 FM was ranked 12th in the nation by the Princeton Review.
• "Liquid sunshine" is one of the many terms Pacific Northwesterners use for rain.
• We have less annual rainfall than New York, Boston, Houston, St. Louis, or Washington, D.C.
• Mount Rainier, visible from campus, is just a two-hour drive east.
• The Outhaus residential theme house helps students enjoy outdoor exploration in the Pacific Northwest.
• Nearby Point Defiance is one of the largest urban parks in the United States.
• Puget Sound has a conservatory-quality School of Music.
• About one-third of Puget Sound students study abroad.
• Puget Sound has a high acceptance rate of applicants to health profession graduate programs.
• About 75 percent of students are involved in service activities in Tacoma and the broader community.
• Students produce as many as 20 one-act and four full-length plays each year.
• The varsity Logger teams finished the 2005-06 year ranked 39th in the U.S. Sports Academy Director's Cup.
• Athletics offers more than 30 courses in recreational sports, such as scuba and golf.
• The university-sponsored Expeditionary offers outdoor equipment rentals right on campus.
• Tacoma is 35 miles from Seattle, and only a few hours from both Vancouver, BC, and Portland, OR.
• Within two hours of campus: Mt. Rainier, Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Ocean, San Juan Islands.
• Puget Sound has had�27 Fulbright winners.
• Puget Sound is�in the top five of smaller colleges�for the number of graduates in the Peace Corps.
• Puget Sound offers 23 varsity sports, as well as many intramural recreation options.
• The students of Puget Sound are involved in more than�100 wide-ranging organizations and clubs.
• Approximately 62% of students receive need-based financial aid.
• 74% of incoming�students were in the top 25% of their high school graduating class.
• Puget Sound offers over 1,200 courses annually.
• Students come from 47 states and 13 countries.
• "Yahoo Internet Life" named us one of the 100 most wired colleges in the nation.
• Puget Sound is one of only five independent colleges in the Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa.
• Puget Sound offers an interdisciplinary major in business.
• We are one of five independent national undergraduate liberal arts colleges in the Northwest.
• The Puget Sound Class of 2010 includes students from 475 high schools.
• Our Class of 2010 includes a student who educated Zambian villagers about solar cooking and timber exploitation.
• The�Class of 2010�has a nationally-ranked extreme skier, a stilt-walker, a master archer, and 2 belly dancers.
• The Class of 2010 includes twin sisters who started their own baking company.
• The student-run pizza place, the Cellar, sold approximately 37,300 pizzas during the last academic year.
• The Cellar, the student-run pizza parlor, once hosted Robin Williams and Rachel Leigh Cook.
• The Trail is the student-run campus newspaper.
• Campus Films provides recently-released movies to students weekly for only $1.
• KUPS, the student-run radio station, broadcasts at 90.1 24 hours a day and streams its programming online.
• The average high school GPA for Puget Sound students is 3.55.
• 88% of freshmen return to Puget Sound for the next year.
• Puget Sound professors teach classes, not teaching assistants.
• Average class size is 19, and 91% of classes number less than 30 students.
• Each summer Puget Sound awards research grants to approximately 50 undergraduates.
• 65% of students live on campus--and nearly all who don't live within walking distance.
• ASUPS, the student government, manages an annual budget of over $500,000.
• 20% of Puget Sound's 2,600 students are intercollegiate athletes.
• Nearly 93% of students receive financial aid.
• 75% of Puget Sound students are from outside Washington state.
• The Puget Sound campus spans 97 acres.
• Memorial Fieldhouse's doors were built large enough to accommodate circus elephants.
• Puget Sound has 26 language and theme-oriented residence houses.
• About 25%�of first-year students live in theme housing, such as�Adventure Education�or Social Justice.
• 25% of Puget Sound students join one of�8 sororities and fraternities.
• Puget Sound is among the top undergraduate liberal arts colleges sending students abroad for study.
• Puget Sound Women's Swimming has won�10 consecutive Northwest Conference titles.
• There are 12 multicultural and religious groups that meet regularly in the Student Diversity Center.
• The Student Diversity Center is open from noon to 10 p.m. weekdays for student use.
• The Jewish Student Organization hosts an annual Passover Seder for�the campus and community.
• Puget Sound signed the international Talloires Declaration committing to�environmental sustainability.
• Puget Sound was the first university in the Northwest to offer Fair Trade coffee exclusively.
• Last year�Puget Sound used�8,975 pounds of Fair Trade coffee--that's 575,000 cups!