About Oberlin College and Conservatory

Oberlin College is a private radical arts intellectual and college of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest coeducational advocate arts instructor in the United States and the second oldest continuously enthusiastic coeducational institute of progressive learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest permanently operating private school in the United States. In 1835 Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 1837 the first to agree to women (other than Franklin College’s brief experiment in the 1780s). It has been known past its founding for complex student activism.

The College of Arts & Sciences offers higher than 50 majors, minors, and concentrations. Oberlin is a supporter of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium. Since its founding, Oberlin has graduated 16 Rhodes Scholars, 20 Truman Scholars, three Nobel laureates, seven Pulitzer Prize winners, 12 MacArthur fellows, and 4 Rome Prize winners.[citation needed]

Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the house of Oberlin College, a open-minded arts hypothetical and music conservatory with nearly 3,000 students.

The town is the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League and the Hall-Héroult process, the process of reducing aluminum from its fluoride salts by electrolysis, which made industrial production of aluminum possible.

The population was 8,286 at the 2010 census.