About Saint Olaf College

St. Olaf College is a private unprejudiced arts scholastic in Northfield, Minnesota. The college was founded in 1874 by a help of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The theoretical is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated in the same way as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The instructor was visited by King Olav in 1987 and King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway in 2011.

As of 2017, the scholastic enrolled 3035 undergraduate students and 256 faculty. The campus, including its 325-acre natural lands, lies 2 miles west of the city of Northfield, Minnesota; Northfield is as well as the house of its neighbor and friendly rival Carleton College. Between 1995 and 2020, 154 St. Olaf graduates were named Fulbright Scholars and 35 received Goldwater Scholarships. Of the nation’s 267 baccalaureate colleges, St. Olaf ranks 12th in the number of graduates who have gone on to earn doctorate degrees.

Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota. It is mostly in Rice County, with a small portion in Dakota County. The population was 20,908 at the 2020 census.