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“One of the great assets of the United States is the higher education system, including institutions like


the ones here. It makes me optimistic about the future.” —Bill Gates


STRATEGIC VISION: INNOVATION, LEADERSHIP & IMPACT | EXPERIENTIAL & INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING | EXCELLENCE & DIVERSITY | WHOLE-PERSON DEVELOPM


National Recognition Promotes Prestige


Gates on Campus Students and faculty at Harvey Mudd College enjoyed the undivided attention of computer scientist and philanthropist Bill Gates March 10, 2011. Gates spent four hours on the HMC campus meeting with President Ma- ria Klawe, having lunch with students and listening to faculty and student research presentations. He spoke with faculty about HMC’s recent curriculum revision and the College’s mathemat- ics education outreach and spoke to The Claremont Colleges community as part of HMC’s Annenberg Lecture Series. “One of the great assets of the United States is the higher education system, including institutions like the ones here. It makes me optimistic about the future,” Gates said.


Prestige, Profit, Value Harvey Mudd College engineering


program remains contin-


ues to receive top accolades when compared with peer insti- tutions. Our


top-ranked by


U.S. News and World Report—No. 1 in the nation (tied with Rose-Hulman). Among liberal arts peers, HMC has main-


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This Just In: Faculty Newsmakers Arthur Benjamin, HMC’s resident “mathemagician,” was a special guest Jan. 27, 2010 on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” where he dazzled host Stephen Colbert and nearly one million viewers with


tained its Top 20 spot (U.S. News and World Report, Princeton Review). The highest-earning college graduates in the U.S. are from HMC according to surveys by PayScale—HMC graduates earn on average $126,000 mid-career, beating out MIT, Caltech, Harvard and Princeton. In addition to being a Top Value (Kiplinger’s Per- sonal Finance, Princeton Review), graduates receive an average $1.7 million return on their educational investment (Bloomberg Busi- nessweek and PayScale).


Doing Good HMC’s commitment to the community was ac- knowledged by its listing in a Washington Monthly survey that measures what a college does to prepare students to serve the pub- lic good. HMC ranked No. 6 among 100 liberal arts colleges.


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