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Weeknight opportunities to build skills & grow community 

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Learn from more experienced College Outdoors leaders when you Trek the Leadership Trail

Get certified in backcountry emergency medicine as a Wilderness First Responder

The Pioneer Express is L&C’s free shuttle, taking students the six miles to the heart of a city that the New York Times calls, “hard to resist” and “one of our national capitals of cool.”

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Attend Training Trips to build skills for specific trip types

Lewis & Clark features 15 unique residence halls. 

Students participating in the 2021 program. 

Portland has 500+ food carts, including multiple cart pods in downtown Portland.

We offer seven Living-Learning Communities (our version of theme floors). 

70% of our students are involved in the arts.

Students living on campus in 2020-21.

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Earn course credit with PE/A 142: Wilderness Leadership

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Green college in the Nation

— The Princeton Review

Powell’s Books is the world’s biggest independent bookstore. 

Total undergraduate enrollment in 2020-21.

Trips each year. 

Fulbright Scholarships awarded to Lewis & Clark students from 1999-2018

Of our students are from countries other than the U.S.

More than 11,000 students have participated in our overseas and off-campus programs since they began in 1962.

International students (in 2019).

U.S. states represented. 

Third Culture Kids on campus. 

Student:faculty ratio.

Lewis & Clark College has a student-to-faculty ratio of 12:1.

Our beautiful campus sits on 137 wooded acres in Portland.

Our beautiful campus sits on 137 wooded acres in Portland.

Average class size. 

Of Lewis & Clark students are varsity athletes. 

Varsity sports teams. See the full list of men’s and women’s sports!

It’s just a 2 hour drive to get to a mountain, beach, or desert.

of first-year LC students indicate that accomplishment in the arts is important to them, compared to 15% at peer institutions.

Professional staff are on duty 24/7. 

Lewis & Clark offers 29 majors and 31 minors.

Countries represented. 

Portland has three professional sports teams: the Trail Blazers, the Timbers, and the Thorns (pictured). 

Portland has 315 miles of bike pathways (and LC has bike rentals on campus!).

Lewis & Clark’s 4-5-6 Commitment can help you make the most of your future.

U.S. states represented. 

The average L&C student graduates with an average of 5 arts courses.

Of our graduates have taken three or more arts courses.

Nationalities represented. 

Of our students participate in overseas and off-campus programs.

Sixty percent of our undergraduates study overseas as part of their Lewis & Clark education. 

Of students go on at least one College Outdoors trip.

Ninety percent of Lewis & Clark undergraduates participate in at least one College Outdoors trip.

Within six months of graduation, 95% of the Lewis & Clark Class of 2019 was already changing the world through employment (80%), continuing studies (13%), or service work (2%).

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We’re on the U.S. News & World Report “Best Undergraduate Teaching” list.

We’re on Newsweek’s list of “50 Best Colleges in Big Cities.”

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Mount Hood! Only ski area open 12 months in North America. 

(Pictured: view of Mount Hood from campus.)

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Gear or experience required! 

Two Vancouvers! Washington and British Columbia.

(Pictured: students on a College Outdoors trip to Vancouver Lake.)

Help with New Student Trips (NSTs), and attend in-depth NST Training

Crater Lake! Deepest in the U.S., formed by a volcanic eruption and famous for its blue color.

(Pictured: students on a College Outdoors trip to Crater Lake.)

Pacific Ocean! Year-round hiking, surfing, exploring.

(Pictured: College Outdoors trip on the Oregon Coast.)

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