Grove City College

Grove City College (GCC) is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania.[4] Founded in 1876 as a normal school, the college emphasizes a humanities core curriculum and offers 60 majors and 6 pre-professional programs with undergraduate degrees in the liberal arts, sciences, business, education, engineering, and music.

 Though once associated with the Presbyterian Church, the college is now non-denominational. Students are not required to sign a statement of faith but are required to attend sixteen chapel services per semester.

Grove City has an acceptance rate of 82.5%. The average GPA of entering freshmen is 3.70 in 2017. The average ACT score of the 2017 incoming freshman class was 26. The average SAT score of the 2017 incoming freshman class was 1231.

Grove City was ranked as the nation's second most politically conservative college by US News and World Report. Human Events Magazine ranks it as one of the creams of the crop in America's conservative colleges. Among all colleges, the widely followed US News and World Report college rankings place Grove City in the first tier of liberal arts colleges. The conservative think tank Free Congress Foundation includes Grove City among its list of top colleges that provide excellent liberal arts.

Grove City College, known athletically as the Wolverines, competes in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) of NCAA Division III. On the varsity level, Grove City College has basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, cheerleading, swimming, tennis, and track teams for both men and women. Lacrosse, baseball, rugby union and football are varsity sports available to men only, while softball and water polo are varsity sports offered to women only.

In April 2016, men's lacrosse was announced as the 22nd varsity sport and will begin in the 2018 spring season as a member of the Ohio River Lacrosse Conference (a joint venture between Presidents' Athletic Conference and Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference).