Antioch College

Private · Moderately Selective · OH

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School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationOH · Midwest

SettingRural

Undergrads121

Student:faculty6:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate26.5%

6-yr grad rate41.2%

Drop-out rate28.2%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$37k

Out-of-state tuition$37k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity52.1%

Gender diversity65.3%

International0.8%

Identity—

Overview

Antioch College is a small, historic liberal-arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, associated in its early years with education reformer Horace Mann, its first president, and long known for progressive experimentation in how a college is run and taught. It closed for several years before reopening in 2011 as a deliberately small, community-governed institution, and it has kept that identity of being intentionally tiny rather than trying to rebuild toward its earlier size.

Academics

The signature feature is cooperative education: students alternate terms of full-time academic study with full-time paid work terms, often in different parts of the country, so that by graduation they have accumulated real work experience alongside coursework. Class sizes are very small, and the curriculum leans interdisciplinary and self-directed, with substantial student voice in governance and even hiring decisions, a legacy of Antioch's longstanding commitment to shared governance.

Campus & student life

Yellow Springs is a small, artsy, left-leaning village in southwest Ohio, and the town's character is closely intertwined with the college's. Housing is small-scale and communal in feel, matching the college's tiny enrollment, and campus culture is strongly oriented toward social and environmental justice, sustainability, and student self-governance rather than traditional Greek life or big-time athletics.

Getting in

Antioch's admissions process is holistic and looks for students genuinely drawn to its co-op model and its history of activism and self-governance; it is not a numbers-driven exercise, and demonstrated interest in the college's distinctive mission carries real weight.

After graduation

The co-op program means graduates typically leave with several substantive work experiences already on their resume, often in fields tied to their work-term placements, and the alumni network is closely bound up with the college's activist and progressive-education identity.

Worth knowing

Because of its 2011 reopening after closure, Antioch operates on a smaller scale and with a different institutional culture than many peer liberal-arts colleges; governance structures giving students and faculty real power remain central to how the college describes itself, not a historical footnote.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate89.1%

Enrolled mid-50%1180

Test policyoptional

Rec letters1

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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