What makes Hamline special?

• Hamline is Minnesota’s first university, founded in 1854, and among the first co-educational institutions in the nation.
  
  
• Hamline is ranked first in Minnesota among comprehensive master’s universities by U.S.News & World Report.
  
  
• Hamline offers undergraduate and professional degrees through its five schools: the College of Liberal Arts, School of Law, School of Education, Graduate School of Management, and Graduate School of Liberal Studies.
  
  
• Our mission: To create a diverse and collaborative community of learners dedicated to the development of students' knowledge, values, and skills for successful lives of leadership, scholarship, and service.
  
  
• Our values: Recognizing its roots in the traditions and values of the United Methodist Church, Hamline aspires to the highest standards for:
  • Creation, dissemination, and practical application of knowledge
  • Rigor, creativity, and innovation in teaching, learning, and research
  • Multicultural competencies in local and global contexts
  • The development and education of the whole person
  • An individual and community ethic of social justice, civic responsibility, and inclusive leadership and service
    
    
• Our vision: to be recognized as a diverse learning-centered university that is:
  • Rooted in a tradition of liberal education
  • Dynamic and actively inclusive
  • Locally engaged and globally connected
  • Invested in the personal and professional growth of persons

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