• Life at Hendrix

    About the College

    Founded in 1876 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is one of the country's best liberal arts colleges, nationally recognized for academic quality, community, innovation, and value.

  • Nationally Recognized for Quality and Value

  • Ranked among
    " Best National Liberal Arts Colleges "

    U.S. News & World Report
    (The only top 100 nationally ranked
    liberal arts college in Arkansas.)

     

    Continued appearance on
    the "Most Innovative Schools" list

    U.S. News & World Report

     

    Featured in the
    Fiske Guide to Colleges 

     

    Featured in  Loren Pope's Book Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges

     

    Ranked #1 
    Best Colleges in Arkansas
    for 

    College Consensus

     

    Recognized as a 
    " Best Value School "

    U.S. News & World Report

    One of 142 colleges and universities chosen for The Princeton Review's Best Colleges "Best in the Southeast" list.

     

    ALL IN Challenge Bronze Award for excellence in student voter engagement

     

    Best in Arkansas for LGBTQ Students

    BestColleges.com/Campus Pride Index

     

    Most Beautiful College in Every State

    Travel and Leisure

     

    #1 in Best Dining Halls

    BestColleges.com

     

    Repeated appearances on
    Forbes' Grateful Grads Index for the Top 200 Best-Loved Colleges

     

    Featured as one of
    MONEY's Best Colleges


    Named a "Hidden Gem in the US"
    and listed as a "Hidden Gems in the Southeast"

    College Raptor

    A Forbes Best Value College

     

    A Best College Value

    Kiplinger's Personal Finance

     

    Best College Food in America

    Niche.com

     

    Multiple Gold Awards from the National Association for College and University Food Services

    NACUFS

     

    A top producer of Fulbright Students

    The Chronicle of Higher Education

     

     

    Grand Prize in Residential Dining Concepts

    Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards NACUFS

     

    Included on U.S. News & World Report's 
    "High School Counselors Rankings" list

    The list was created by polling guidance counselors
    in all 50 states to ask which institutions they think
    offer the best undergraduate education for students.
    U.S. News & World Report

     

  • Fast Facts

    With close faculty interaction, rigorous academic programs rooted in the liberal arts, and robust residential campus experience, Hendrix develops students to their fullest potential.

  • Motto

    "Unto the whole person"

    The Hendrix College seal appeared for the first time on the cover of the 1898 catalog. The seal included the College's motto, selected by a committee headed by the Rev. George W. Hill and taken from a passage in Ephesians: "Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ …" (Ephesians 4:13, King James Version). Currently translated as "unto the whole person," the motto, in Ancient Greek, reflects Hendrix's dedication to both Christian principles and the traditional liberal arts ideal.