Dickinson College

Dickinson College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is a liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences and in preprofessional fields. Students may spend the summer abroad in one of the university’s five language-immersion programs in Europe. Total enrollment exceeds 1,900. Dickinson College originated as a grammar school that had been founded in 1773. At the urging of physician and political leader Benjamin...