17 Facts About Carleton College

Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota.

Carleton College is known for its Division 1 Ultimate Frisbee teams, which have won multiple national championships.

In 1916, under Cowling's leadership, Carleton College began an official affiliation with the Minnesota Baptist Convention.

Non-denominational for a number of years, in 1964 Carleton College abolished its requirement for weekly attendance at some religious or spiritual meeting.

In 1942, Carleton College purchased land in Stanton, about 10 miles east of campus, to use for flight training.

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The 15 most common graduate or professional schools attended by Carleton College students are University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Harvard, University of Chicago, University of Washington, Columbia, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, NYU, Yale, and Stanford.

In five of the last twelve years, Carleton College students received the Best Delegation award at the World Model United Nations competition.

Carleton College has numerous student traditions and a long history of student pranks.

Since 1990, Carleton students have played "Late Night Trivia", a game show broadcast over the college's radio station, KRLX, during the annual Winter Term exam period.

In 2006, students created an online scavenger hunt, made up of a series of complex riddles about Carleton College, which led participants to Schiller's hidden location.

The appearance was organized by custodians of Schiller who contacted Peter Gwinn, a Carleton College alumnus who was a writer for the program.

In 1964, Carleton College students named an intramural slow-pitch softball league after Marv Rotblatt, a former Chicago White Sox pitcher.

Students at the nearby St Olaf Carleton College sent over Friday Flowers for each student's mailbox.

College Sustainability Report Card, which evaluated 200 colleges and universities with the largest endowments in the United States and Canada, Carleton received a grade of A-, earning the award of "Overall College Sustainability Leader".

In late 2011, Carleton installed a second wind turbine that provides power directly to the campus, providing more than 25 percent of the college's electrical energy use.

Carleton College won its first and only team national title in 1980 when the men's cross country team won the NCAA division three cross country national championship.

Carleton College founded the first women's rugby club in the state of Minnesota in 1978 and went on to win the Division III National Championship in 2011.