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“Eastern Nazarene College seeks to enlighten the mind, to enhance the quality of personality, to enkindle a never-ending search for truth, and to enable each, out of Christian love and concern, to serve others creatively and responsibly.”

Quincy, MA

http://www.enc.edu/ - admissions@enc.edu

INTRODUCTION:

New England’s premier Christian college of the liberal arts & sciences and the only intentionally Christian college in metropolitan Boston, Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) features an innovative and distinctive liberal arts curriculum, focused on global issues at the intersection of faith & culture. By virtue of the College’s South Shore location in the City of Presidents, students and faculty at ENC also enjoy a beautiful and historical residential campus with everyday access to America’s College Town – Boston, Massachusetts.

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ENGAGED STUDENTS

Students at Eastern Nazarene are highly engaged in service and scholarship around the globe; they conduct research at Harvard, study at Oxford, perform their music in the South Pacific, take part in conservation efforts on the South Shore, care for sick children in Uganda, and minister to the homeless of Boston….

The scholarly, the spiritual and the intellectual At Eastern Nazarene College, students find themselves engaged in the scholarly, the spiritual and the intellectual on-campus, around Boston, and all over the world. An ideal location on Boston’s historic South Shore provides ample opportunity for students to utilize the resources of America’s most prestigious research universities, while institutional relationships with religious and academic organizations allow for globally focused and culturally enriching possibilities for students to engage the world around them.

Students find they have some highly attractive options to explore right here in metropolitan Boston: ENC students have worked for The Historical Society at Boston University, have conducted physics research at Harvard, and earned competitive internships with biotechnology firms like Genzyme in Cambridge. Those who want to engage the world outside the Boston area can spend a semester of student exchange in southern California, participate in marine biology fieldwork at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod, and conduct research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Students seeking to explore life on a global scale have undertaken similarly impressive endeavours, attending the University of Oxford’s Wycliffe Hall, going on international choir tours to the Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands, and pursuing university studies in the subtropical Fujian Province of southeast China.

Called to do more than research and study, students at Eastern Nazarene College also serve their communities through a variety of ministries and humanitarian efforts. Students for Social Justice at ENC seeks to address the injustices and inequities of society. Eastern Nazarene students have been praised for their efforts to restore and conserve ecologically significant areas of the South Shore. Open Hand Open Heart is a student-led ministry whose members spend their weekends providing food, clothing, and blankets for the homeless of Boston. Students have also worked at the CURE Children’s Hospital in Uganda with children who suffer from AIDS, and research is often paired with service, such as competitive internships at local biotech firms that focus their scientific work on finding a cure for cancer.

GREAT TEACHING

Professors at the College are highly experienced and well credentialed; they hold degrees from top-ranked universities, receive national recognition for their academic achievements, interact with their students on a personal basis, and are professionally active in Boston and beyond….

Accomplished faculty, innovative courses, and a small college setting

The College not only hosts world-renowned scholars and nationwide conferences, but many top authors and intellectuals are on the faculty at ENC, specializing in everything from analytical chemistry to American history. Professors at Eastern Nazarene College also represent over half the institutions of the Ivy League, from Harvard to Penn, as well as other top graduate universities in the United States, from Rice to MIT. In addition to a highly experienced and extremely well credentialed faculty, the College’s size is one of its greatest assets: a low student-to-teacher ratio and small class sizes, combined with a teaching focus, facilitate discussion among peers and allow professors to engage their students more effectively.

Building on the presence of a truly excellent college faculty in a small college setting, Eastern Nazarene further challenges students with a distinctive curriculum grounded firmly in both the liberal arts and Christian values. Students are encouraged to explore the tensions and possibilities that exist between Christian faith, Western culture, and global community. The Cultural Perspectives Sequence, as it is called, has been praised by Christian scholars, and the John Templeton foundation has cited ENC as character-building institution. The curriculum provides for a truly educational experience in practical study with its Praxis program, as well, which supports students in finding and completing internships in business, media, government, ministry, and other off-campus learning opportunities.

ENC also supports a challenging academic environment with unparalleled research opportunities for students. In addition to the rigor of the liberal arts core and the major college departments at Eastern Nazarene College, the Honors Scholar Society was formed in 1936, and provides several opportunities for research and intellectual engagement outside of the general curriculum, as well as making special language, study abroad, and increased academic requirements of its members. These students take advantage of ENC’s close connections with the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at Harvard University, with The Historical Society at Boston University, and various other academic and research organizations across the U.S.

Academic Programs Majors, minors, and concentrations in: accounting, Biblical languages, Biblical literature, biochemistry, biology, business, chemistry, chemistry & business, child & adolescent developmental psychology, Christian ministry, clinical & research psychology, communication arts, computer engineering, computer science, contemporary music & recording, criminal justice, criminal justice & social relations psychology, early childhood education, electrical engineering, elementary education, engineering, English, environmental science, environmental studies, forensic science, general science, government, health science, history, history education, instrumental music performance, journalism, liberal arts, literature, management, marketing, mathematics, middle school education, missions, movement arts, music & business, music & communication arts, music business, music composition, music education, music history, music ministry, music performance, music recording, music theory, philosophy, physical education, physics, pre-dentistry, pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-nursing, pre-occupational therapy, pre-pharmacy, pre-physical therapy, pre-veterinary science, religion, secondary education, social relations psychology, social welfare, social work, sociology, special education, sports management, theatre arts, theology & philosophy, visual arts, vocal music performance, writing, and youth ministry.

VIBRANT COMMUNITIES

Eastern Nazarene College is an ideally located, small, New England liberal arts college; tucked away in a seaside suburban neighbourhood, the College is perfectly situated less than a mile from the Boston area’s largest beach, half a mile from the nearest Boston subway station, and less than two miles from Boston proper….

A bay, a beach, Boston, and beyond

Eastern Nazarene is part of a residential suburban neighbourhood in the seaside city of Quincy, ranked as the second-safest city in Massachusetts and one of Business Week’s best places to raise children. The College campus is also perfectly situated just two miles south of Boston — six miles south of downtown and half a mile from the nearest subway stop — and a quarter-mile from the largest of the Boston Harbor beaches. Rich in over three centuries of American history and known as “the City of Presidents”, Quincy has been home to two presidents of the United States, one president of the Continental Congress, presidents and faculty at Harvard, and numerous mayors of Boston.

The student population at ENC represents over 30 states, over 30 countries, and over 30 Christian denominations. Over a quarter of the student body represents ethnic minorities, making ENC the one of the most ethnically diverse Christian colleges in the United States. Chapel services take place twice a week, and stretch both the mind and the heart when speakers challenge the entire Eastern Nazarene College community – students, faculty, and staff – to consider varying Christian perspectives on everything from Christian lifestyle and multiculturalism to creation care and social justice issues.

The College fields eleven NCAA varsity teams and hosts several other club sports, sponsors numerous musical ensembles and concert series year-round, welcomes all students to participate in its celebrated theatrical productions, and invites renowned scholars from universities all over the world – from Harvard and Brown to Exeter and Oxford – to participate in ENC’s outstanding lecture series. Eastern Nazarene hosts everything from national theology conferences to local sporting events, and its perfect park-like setting less than half a mile from Quincy Bay makes it a great place to read a book under a tree or spend a day down at the beach.

Students who explore beyond the campus in Wollaston Park find themselves taking a ferry from the Fore River in Quincy to Long Wharf in Boston, touring America’s most beloved ballpark, riding on America’s first subway, strolling through America’s oldest public park, attending the Boston Film Festival or a concert at Jordan Hall, shopping along Newbury Street, eating at restaurants in Quincy Market or the North End, and walking the historic Freedom Trail. Not only are all the academic opportunities of Boston available to students at Eastern Nazarene, but the history, the art, the music, and society of a world class city are just minutes away by rail or by car.

SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES

ENC is known for getting students into the nation’s top graduate schools. The Pre-Law program at ENC has also maintained a 100 percent acceptance rate into law schools for the past 30 years, and the College’s 94 percent acceptance rate into medical schools is over twice the national average….

From astrophysics to urban ministry

ENC has a long track record and well-established reputation for graduating alumni who are successful both academically and professionally. In fact, many of the faculty members at Eastern Nazarene are alumni who have returned to the College to invest in new generations of ENC alumni, after earning their graduate and doctoral degrees at some of the best graduate schools in the United States.

Alumni include college and university presidents, presidents of both the YMCA and the Red Cross, political leaders and key legislators, highly influential lawyers, renowned physicists and engineers, editors of encyclopedias and academic journals, Bible translators and theologians, respected authors and historians, and researchers for the nation’s top research universities.

Graduates of the College experience extraordinary success in gaining entrance to top graduate programs; ENC’s average acceptance rate into medical schools, at 94 percent, is twice the national average, besting some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the U.S. Those Eastern Nazarene alumni who go on to graduate school have also been accepted with full scholarships to the top-ranked programs in the nation, including Harvard, Boston University, Dartmouth, University of Pittsburgh, Wake Forest, and University of Pennsylvania.

The average acceptance rate for an ENC student applying to law school is even higher, as the College’s highly successful Pre-Law program has maintained a 100 percent acceptance rate into law schools for the past 30 years. Graduates from Eastern Nazarene College have attended some of the top-ranked law schools in the United States, including those at Harvard, Boston College, Yale, UCLA, William & Mary, Boston University, and Washington & Lee.

Eastern Nazarene College alumni have also attended graduate school at University of Chicago, Cornell, MIT, New York University, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, University of Michigan, Georgetown, and a host of other highly respected graduate programs. Alumni also find success as social workers and educators, ministers and missionaries in the U.S. and abroad, psychologists and counselors, news reporters and radio personalities, artists and musicians, theatre actors and directors, athletes and athletic directors.

Graduates of the College discover more than mere employment opportunities awaiting them after graduation. Many find their life’s calling and purpose at ENC, and that their education has prepared them both intellectually and spiritually. Whether called to teach in Africa, research a cure for cancer, or provide homes for the homeless, each ENC alumnus and alumna exemplifies the Eastern Nazarene College ethos that one can be a Christian and a scholar, a responsible and caring individual as well as an educated and informed member of a global community.

FAST FACTS

Located on Boston’s South Shore, Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is New England’s premier Christian college of the liberal arts & sciences and the only intentionally Christian college in metropolitan Boston.

Web site www.enc.edu

Location In Quincy, a suburb of Boston, recently ranked as the second-safest city in Massachusetts. The Wollaston Park campus is six miles from downtown Boston, half a mile from the nearest Boston subway station, and a quarter-mile from the largest of the Boston Harbor beaches.

Student Profile 835 total undergraduates – 75% residential, 62% out-of-state, 58% female, 25% ethnic minority.

Faculty Profile 45 full-time faculty members (103 total), 84% of which hold an earned Ph.D. or other terminal degree.

Athletics 11 NCAA Division III teams in The Commonwealth Coast Conference: baseball, men’s basketball, men’s cross-country, men’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s basketball, women’s cross-country, women’s soccer, softball, women’s tennis, women’s volleyball.

Activities/Club/Organizations Over 75 student clubs and organizations on campus, ranging from academic clubs to social justice ministries, in addition to several vocal and instrumental ensembles and a very active theatre department.

Academics Majors, minors, and concentrations in: accounting, Biblical languages, Biblical literature, biochemistry, biology, business, chemistry, chemistry & business, child & adolescent developmental psychology, Christian ministry, clinical & research psychology, communication arts, computer engineering, computer science, contemporary music & recording, criminal justice, criminal justice & social relations psychology, early childhood education, electrical engineering, elementary education, engineering, English, environmental science, environmental studies, forensic science, general science, government, health science, history, history education, instrumental music performance, journalism, liberal arts, literature, management, marketing, mathematics, middle school education, missions, movement arts, music & business, music & communication arts, music business, music composition, music education, music history, music ministry, music performance, music recording, music theory, philosophy, physical education, physics, pre-dentistry, pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-nursing, pre-occupational therapy, pre-pharmacy, pre-physical therapy, pre-veterinary science, religion, secondary education, social relations psychology, social welfare, social work, sociology, special education, sports management, theatre arts, theology & philosophy, visual arts, vocal music performance, writing, and youth ministry.

Costs and Aid For 2011-2012, residential cost is $33,400 – non-residential cost is $25,300. All incoming students receive financial aid, including transfer and international students. Both merit-based and need-based institutional aid are offered.

More Distinctions

 Eastern Nazarene College graduates have an average 94 percent acceptance rate into medical schools and an 100 percent acceptance rate into law school.

 Eastern Nazarene College is listed by Washington Monthly as one of the best baccalaureate degree-granting colleges in the entire United States and by U.S. News as one of the best in the Northeast.

 Eastern Nazarene College is a John Templeton Foundation award-winner for excellence in science-and-religion education, and has also been cited by the Foundation for excellence in character-building.

 Eastern Nazarene College features semester-long study abroad opportunities in 10 countries and 18 cities around the world.

 Eastern Nazarene College established a new Cecil R. Paul Center for Business in 1999 and a new James R. Cameron Center for History, Law, & Government in 2005.

ADMISSIONS AND FINANCIAL AID

Admission to Eastern Nazarene College is selective, but all applicants have a personal enrollment counselor and the application process is intended to be an interactive one. The Director and the Committee on Admissions also employ an assessment method that evaluates all admission criteria equally when making admission decisions.

The College offers admission to qualified applicants who demonstrate academic achievement, good character, extracurricular involvement, and community engagement. Notification of the admission decision is made year-round, on a case-by-case basis, and as soon as possible after all the required materials have been received.

At ENC, all incoming students receive institutional aid: first-time freshmen, transfer students, and international students. The average financial aid package is roughly half merit-based aid and half need-based aid. Merit-based aid is determined by academic qualifications, while need-based aid is calculated according to a family’s financial need.

For more information about admissions and financial aid at Eastern Nazarene, visit www.enc.edu/apply and www.enc.edu/financial-aid.

CONTACT

Eastern Nazarene College

23 East Elm Avenue

Quincy, Massachusetts 02170

Phone: 617-745-3711

Toll-free: 1-800-88-ENC-88

Fax: 617-745-3992

admissions@enc.edu