Fast Facts

The 2012-13 Lawrence Student Body

The 2012-13 student body includes 1,525 men and women from 44 states and the District of Columbia, and 40 foreign countries, is 53% female and 47% male, 14% minority, and 9% Non-Resident International
31% of the student body is from Wisconsin, 19% are from Illinois, 9% are from Minnesota
98% live on campus in eight residence halls and seventeen small group/theme houses; the smallest of all the residences accommodates seven, while the largest holds 183
Students participate in over 90 clubs and organizations
21% of the student body participates in Division III, NCAA varsity athletics, including baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, football, golf, hockey, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball

LU faculty and staff are comprised of 39% faculty members and 61% staff members.

Lawrence University was founded in 1847 by Amos A. Lawrence who commissioned the Reverend William Harkness Sampson and the Reverend Henry R. Colman to establish a frontier school to afford “gratuitous advantage to Germans and Indians of both sexes.”
Lawrence was chartered as a college in 1849.
Conservatory of Music was founded in 1874.
Lawrence is the second oldest coeducational college in America.
Lawrence is located in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Lawrence’s school mascot is the Viking.

Population: 72,623 (as of 2010 census)
Incorporated as a village in 1853 and as a city in 1857
The Fox River runs through the heart of Appleton. The Fox River is unusual in that it flows north for its entire course. It exits into Lake Michigan at Green Bay about 30 miles to the north of Appleton.
Appleton is the largest of the “Fox Cities”, a cluster of 18 cities, villages and towns along the Fox River. Communities along the Fox River include: Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, Kaukauna, Kimberly, Combined Locks, Town of Grand Chute, Little Chute, Freedom, Town of Neenah, Town of Menasha, Town of Vandenbroek, Darboy, Town of Buchanan, and Town of Harrison. The Fox Cities have a combined population of more than 220,000 people.
The Fox Cities has consistently been named one of the best medium-size metropolitan areas in the nation, based on quality of life indicators

One of CNNMoney's "Best Places to Live - Small Cities" (ranked 96 out of 100)

45th on the Forbes list of 184 "Best Small Places for Business and Careers"

57th on the Milken Institute’s 179 "Best-Performing Cities”

A few famous residents: Harry Houdini, escape artist and magician; Willem Dafoe, actor; Greta Van Susteren, news analyst; Maury Laws, music director; Edna Ferber, author; John Bradley, one of the soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima.