Salem College

If you are considering Salem College, this is who we are and these are the impacts that we make on your life as a student-athlete both in the classroom and on the field of competition. Attending and graduating from Salem will help give you initiative, curiosity and expressiveness as you enter professional life. 

FAST FACTS ABOUT ATTENDING A WOMEN’S COLLEGE

> Women’s college graduates are more likely to pursue a graduate degree than their co-ed liberal arts and public university counterparts.

> Women’s college graduates have accumulated a variety of “firsts,” including being the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the first woman in a presidential cabinet, and the first woman to serve as a general in the U.S. Army.

> Earn an average of $8,000 more per year than female graduates from co-ed colleges.

> Are 1.5 times more likely to major in math, science, or pre-med than women in co-ed schools.

> Represent 30 percent of Business Week’s list of rising stars in corporate America, 33 percent of female board members of Fortune 1000 companies, and 20 percent of women in Congress (despite the fact that women’s colleges graduate fewer than 2 percent of college-educated women).

The following are stories from Salem graduates about the impact that playing for the Blue & Gold had on their lives and how they carried it into their professional life.