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 9th 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.
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 consistently produces Fulbright Scholars each year.
Puget Sound is ranked first of small 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 63% of students receive need-based financial aid.
69% 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 35 states and 9 countries.
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 2011 includes students from 459 high schools.
The Class of 2011 includes a dog sled racer, mountain unicyclist, a champion canoe paddler, and a varsity kayaker.
The Class of 2011 has two business owners: one makes acrylic pens and one makes all-natural ice cream sandwiches.
The Class of 2011 has a pilot-in-training, a tae kwon do instructor, and a student who toured with Willie Nelson.
The Class of 2011 includes a harpist who performed at Seattle's Benaroya Hall and a student of Tuvan Throat Singing.
The Class of 2011 includes an award-winning ceramacist, a top Colorado golfer, and a trapeze artist/aerial dancer.
The Class of 2011 has a volunteer for a children's rehab center in Central America and a Junior Olympic fencer.
The Class of 2011 includes a student who lived for a month with the Inuit studying sustainability and 3 Eagle Scouts.
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 3.54.
86% of freshmen return to Puget Sound for the next year.
Average class size is 18, and 90% 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.
23% of Puget Sound's 2,600 students are intercollegiate athletes.
Nearly 91% of students receive financial aid.
79% 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 21 language and theme-oriented residence houses.
About 25% of first-year students live in theme housing, such as Adventure Education or Social Justice.
20% 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 11 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!
In 2006, PETA voted Puget Sound the nation's third most vegetarian-friendly campus.
In 2006, Puget Sound was ranked among the top 20 campuses for LGBT students nationwide.
A 27-foot juvenile grey whale skeleton hangs in Harned Hall as part of the Science on Display elements.
Puget Sound's Slater Museum of Natural History contains over 72,000 specimens.
Since 2002 seven Puget Sound students have been named Watson Fellows, five of them in the last two years.
Puget Sound Women's Soccer has won 5 consecutive Northwest Conference titles, including going to nationals in 2004.
40% of incoming students were in the top 10% of their graduating class.
Puget Sound offers 14 intramural sports across the fall, winter, and spring.