About The Evergreen State College

Founded in 1967, The Evergreen State College. is a Public college. Located in Washington, which is a city setting in Washington, the campus itself is Suburban. The campus is home to 3,787 full time undergraduate students, and 302 full time graduate students.

The The Evergreen State College Academic calendar runs on a Quarter basis. In the school year the student to faculty ratio was 21:1. There are 163 full time instructional teachers. Degrees awarded at The Evergreen State College include: Bachelor's Degree, Masters Degree, Post-master's certificate, Doctor's degree.

Quick Facts

Acceptance Rate97%
Application Deadline
Application Fee50
SAT Range920-1180
ACT Range20-26

Admissions at are considered Less Selective, with ,29% of all applicants being admitted.

In the school year, of the students who applied to the school, only 30 of those who were admitted eventually ended up enrolling.

65% of incoming freshmen are in the top half of their high school class. 28% were in the top quarter, and 11% were in the top tenth. You can apply online.

STUDENT LIFE Reviews

We asked, and students answered these important questions about student life at The Evergreen State College.

0%
“We”re apathetic”
5%
“We know about current events and vote”
32%
“We participate and encourage others to get involved”
64%
“There”s nothing we won”t protest”
5%
“We save it for the classroom”
14%
“Sometimes, but not often”
45%
“There”s usually intelligent conversation to be found”
36%
“All the time, including weekends”
14%
“I”m always terrified”
0%
“I only go out in groups”
23%
“I usually let someone know where I”m going”
64%
“I feel extremely safe”
80%
“We don”t play sports”
0%
“We play recreationally”
13%
“We bought the gear”
7%
“We live for the big game”
5%
“It”s not really our thing”
10%
“Occasinally we gallery crawl”
38%
“There are a variety of opportunities”
48%
“We”re a very artistic group”
5%
“Haven”t met them”
9%
“Available in class”
45%
“They keep regular office hours”
41%
“They”re always available”
95%
“No greek life, but other groups to join”
0%
“There is some involvement, but not a lot”
0%
“Plenty of people join a sorority or fraternity”
5%
“It”s everything. If you”re not greek, you”re a geek”
9%
“We”re not into drinking at all”
55%
“Maybe a little, but it”s not a big thing”
27%
“We only party on weekends”
9%
“There”s some drinking happening every night”
5%
“Never, we”re here to learn”
18%
“There might be people who do”
55%
“People are known to partake on weekends”
23%
“There”s a huge drug scene”
0%
“We”re apathetic”
5%
“We know about current events and vote”
32%
“We participate and encourage others to get involved”
64%
“There”s nothing we won”t protest”
5%
“We save it for the classroom”
14%
“Sometimes, but not often”
45%
“There”s usually intelligent conversation to be found”
36%
“All the time, including weekends”
14%
“I”m always terrified”
0%
“I only go out in groups”
23%
“I usually let someone know where I”m going”
64%
“I feel extremely safe”
80%
“We don”t play sports”
0%
“We play recreationally”
13%
“We bought the gear”
7%
“We live for the big game”
5%
“It”s not really our thing”
10%
“Occasinally we gallery crawl”
38%
“There are a variety of opportunities”
48%
“We”re a very artistic group”
5%
“Haven”t met them”
9%
“Available in class”
45%
“They keep regular office hours”
41%
“They”re always available”
95%
“No greek life, but other groups to join”
0%
“There is some involvement, but not a lot”
0%
“Plenty of people join a sorority or fraternity”
5%
“It”s everything. If you”re not greek, you”re a geek”
9%
“We”re not into drinking at all”
55%
“Maybe a little, but it”s not a big thing”
27%
“We only party on weekends”
9%
“There”s some drinking happening every night”
5%
“Never, we”re here to learn”
18%
“There might be people who do”
55%
“People are known to partake on weekends”
23%
“There”s a huge drug scene”
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  • How would you rate on-campus housing?

    97 Students rated on-campus housing 3.3 stars. 8 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate off-campus housing?

    97 Students rated off-campus housing 3.6 stars. 0 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate campus food?

    121 Students rated campus food 2.7 stars. 8 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate campus facilities?

    130 Students rated campus facilities 3.9 stars. 27 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate class size?

    130 Students rated class size 4.5 stars. 63 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate school activities?

    129 Students rated school activities 3.6 stars. 22 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate local services?

    129 Students rated local services 3.9 stars. 34 % gave the school a 5.0.

  • How would you rate academics?

    130 Students rated academics 4.2 stars. 55 % gave the school a 5.0.

The Evergreen State College REVIEWS

What's your overall opinion of The Evergreen State College?

17 Students rated The Evergreen State College

Samantha - 03/25/2024

The topics are engaging but much of the experience hinges on the faculty and your dynamic with them. I like the principles of the school and there are certainly some engaged and kind people there. Overall, I didn't find the structure to work for me and I decided to transfer out.

Amy - 06/29/2019

The Evergreen State College offers great classes. It excels at interdisciplinary programs co-taught by faculty from different disciplines. It can be a challenge to make up a schedule of multiple classes offered for fewer credits, but most faculty are willing to offer variable credit for their programs (i.e. instead of registering a full time interdisciplinary program for 16 credits, you can take 4, or 8, or 12, etc) for flexibility. Faculty are also available outside of class. Most elect to be available by appointment rather than post office hours, but in my experience, they're accessible, and they want their students to be successful. Navigating the college outside of class is where things get tricky. There are offices and services that would have been useful to know about that I've only learned about after two years of study here. Succeeding at Evergreen requires a lot of self discipline and a willingness to carve your own path. The college has been working to create "paths of study" to offer something akin to majors. I imagine this being a great option. I haven't always found the advising office to be the most helpful, but unless you meet with someone regularly to discuss your wants, needs, fears, insecurities, etc... how can anyone help you figure out the best path. I mostly go to faculty I respect and trust for advice. Evergreen has been a great fit for me, but it's hard to recommend outright because of the trickiness of navigating the administrative half of the college.

Paul - 06/02/2019

Evergreen is a great school for science majors such as chemistry, biology, environmental analysis, physics, mathematics etc. It's hard to overstate how well Evergreen does at giving you the opportunity to establish relationships with professors that lead to extremely valuable evaluations and letters of recommendation. This quarter I approached a professor and asked to take part in some astronomical biochemistry research that has proving to be priceless experience. In a school in which you have thousands of classmates this sort of one on one availability of professors is unheard of and evergreen places a lot of value on research. I also get trained and licensed to use scientific instrumentation which is priceless experience for competitive job markets. I can't say much about the humanities side of things, however for an aspiring scientist who wants to go on to graduate studies and do research, evergreen is an ideal school.

Eryvis - 05/23/2019

The Evergreen State College is a school for students who know what they want. There are no majors, nor grades. Rather, Evergreen offers the unique and fundamental chance to make education hands-on, tailored, and real. This is a college which applies education – making it purposeful. At Evergreen, learning is interdisciplinary and transnational, not isolated; it is collaborative, not competitive; personal, not generic; and practiced, not just lectured! When taxonomy (like majors, grades, Greek life) does not exist, students think critically and sustainably about their education. “What does this education look like beyond college?” Every student studies theory and applies it to real world issues, while still enrolled. Evergreen does not use a competitive learning model. Students learn collaboratively. Alternatively, there is no anxiety to be ‘best’ (and because everyone has their own field). Students are charmed into thinking and discussing en masse. This boosts personal engagement! Collaborative learning and personal engagement germinate conversation – yes, even the shy ones in the back. Students want to use one another as sounding boards and be challenged constructively. No majors means no barriers. Students are inspired to match unrelated emphases and find their intersections! When a student can mélange the unrelated, something brilliant happens; that student dismantles an insidious “divide and conquer” mentality and thinks autonomously – a powerful, dangerous thing. With this super-power, students begin bridging gaps. Societally and introspectively, an Evergreener ameliorates damaged ‘sources,’ not symptoms. This is a ‘wholistic’ approach, opposed to regurgitating antiquated practices. If there are no labelled-departments, there is nothing for a letter-grade to categorize. Which is fine, letter grades are flat symbols for very messy learning processes. They are inconsistent quantitative data on student progress and unrepresentative of student work. How a student links theory to practical application is what is evaluated at Evergreen. Another gift is the intimate student to teacher ratio. A teacher to a small classroom has the privilege to observe each student and write individualized evaluations on their performance. Based on the anomalous field of interest, professors profess what a student might do next even. Imagine the infinite possibilities of being supported by both faculty and peers, not grades nor other arguably antiquated systems. The Evergreen State College is an institution for passionate pioneers with purposeful planetary plans, not people pining for a proximate paycheck.

The Evergreen State College FAQS

  1. What is the Acceptance Rate at The Evergreen State College?

    The fall 2020 acceptance rate for The Evergreen State College is 97%. That means, out of _____ applications received in 2020 , _____ students were offered admission. The number of males who applied was _____ vs the number of females which was _____.

  2. What should every freshman at your school know before they start?

    Focus on the big picture, not individual classes or interests alone. Going to college is more than getting a degree, it is learning how to take the skills you learn and apply them in fields that may not seem to be immediately apparent, and develop enough depth to your studies that you can adapt to changes in technology and the economy.

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  3. What do you consider the worst thing about your school? Why?

    The school is very interdisciplinary; you can go through the whole quarter thinking you are skirting by without working, and finish with no credit. They don't have grades at Evergreen, they just don't award you for what you don't do. If you mess around, no one will stop you, but you will end up paying for many credits you won't receive. Also, the weather can throw some students into a terrible depression over the winter. If you are not used to the winters of Northwestern Washington, stay active and around friends to help yourself get through.

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  4. Describe how your school looks to someone who's never seen it.

    My school is top of the line allows you a little room to explore your options and fields of choice. My school is all about critical thinking and ability to do work on own.

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  5. What's the most frustrating thing about your school?

    At the Evergreen State College, we have a such a unique way of approaching issues, we sometimes become clouded in our own thinking. The real world is often times different than our perceptions, and such, the problem-solving taking place can be unrealistic at times. This is not to say that these solutions are not practical, but only that they are often times not politically viable.

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  6. Here's your chance: Say anything about your college!

    NO grades, outgoing, liberal, enviornmentally aware, relaxed,

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  7. Describe the students at your school.

    Social, opinionated, open-minded

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  8. What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?

    The amount of self-motivation needed to sustain alll 4 years of college. Also, a little more about meal plans.

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  9. Describe your favorite campus traditions.

    Political freedoms, protesting, lack of a grading system, progressive thinking, friendly people.

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  10. What kind of person should attend this school?

    Self-motivated, teamwork oriented people who are cooperative education and inter-discipline oriented with an interest in active community participation.

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  11. What's unique about your campus?

    I enjoy the academic freedom here at Evergreen. There are hardly any hoops to jump through when it comes to taking certain classes or getting involved with programs. This was a problem in the past for me at my old college. If I wanted to switch programs or majors, it was as if I had to start my education over. Meaning everything leading up to that point was practically null and void. Why do traditional colleges prioritize and marginalize prior learning? Anyways, Evergreen does not and that is probably one of it's greatest attributes-- freedom.

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  12. What kind of person should not attend this school?

    I myself am probably in the demographic of people who should not attend this school. Nontraditionally aged white males have to be fairly open-minded and able to spend most of their time alone or else they should pick a different school. Racism is minimal but agism exists.

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  13. What do you brag about most when you tell your friends about your school?

    That I can be as weird as I want, the weirder the better!

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  14. Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?

    Outsiders'---No Students'---No

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  15. What are the academics like at your school?

    When you graduate, alumni* have shared their advantages in seeing the forest through the trees and their superior ability to write up what they observe and solutions needed if any. For the first 20+ years there were no tests, because you had to know what you were talking about in writing. Tests alienate faculty from the responsibility to stay abreast of their focus and destroy the one-on-one contact that made Evergreen's success a fact. *A state senator who graduated in 1997 shared how he was allowed to contemplate his work and skip class to do it as a surfer.

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  16. What is the stereotype of students at your school?

    We are considered to be the angriest hippies on earth. We love trees and we will fucking flip your car if your try to do something we find unjust.

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  17. What is your overall opinion of this school?

    Take a 2 credit summer course to get accustomed to the BS and get yourself into the system as a work-study student. Stay in the dorms and look for a unit off campus. Rent a unit in a trailer park or a room in a home. Come Fall-Winter-Spring, take a three quarter program in a field of interest to get used to people, brain-wave entrainment (elites like to dominate a group consciousness unless you set them straight), and work on basic research skills. Investigate Native American Studies by meeting with the professors at 1 PM on a Tuesday or Thursday. Write your own syllabus and follow it out. When through, you will have the self-discipline of a good Marine. Begin networking inside your field while in NAS with the help of your professors. No university; no college; no school has more student-professor interaction than Evergreen's.

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  18. What are the most popular student activities/groups?

    The campus has been catholicized using the black-magician's technique of taboo, fault, and introversion. Read Charles Higham's American Swastika ISBN -385178743 to learn how Father Coughlin and Catholics in Brooklyn advocated the overthrow of FDR in favor of Italy's, Spain's & Germany's fascism.

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  19. What is the stereotype of students at your school? Is this stereotype accurate?

    The stereotypes that exist are hippies, stoners, and slackers. The "hippy" part is definitely pretty accurate and there are stoners and slackers but not nearly to the degree we are known for. In almost every program I have been in there really haven't been any slackers but there have been bare feet.

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Student Body

Students

56%

female

44%

male

3,787

Total Undergrad Enrollment

302

Total Grad Students

39%

Out-Of-State

60%

In-State

1%

International

Organizations

78

Student Organizations

N/A

Fraternities

N/A

Sororities

Housing

Yes

On-Campus Housing

20%

of students living on campus

Student Diversity

% American Indian/Alaskan Native
2%
% Asian/Pacific Islander
3%
% Black or African-American
5%
% Hispanic/Latino
11%
% White or Caucasian
66%

TUITION & AID

All students must apply yearly for financial aid. This process starts with the FAFSA. Though financial aid deadlines vary by school, it is a good idea to apply as soon as possible. For the upcoming school year, you can apply as early as October 1 for the FAFSA. Additional school aid will be dependent on the FAFSA results.

86% of students attending The Evergreen State College receive some sort of financial aid. 38% were awarded federal grants. While 48% received federal loans. Many students do also need to apply for additional private student loans.

Cost Out of State

$23,871

Tuition and fees(Out of state)

$750

Books and Supplies

$9,360

Room and Board

33,981

Total On Campus

Actual Cost By Income Level(W/Financial Aid)

Family Income
Cost
$0 - $30K
$9,997
$30 - $48K
$10,452
$48 - $75K
$13,077
$75 - $110K
$18,501
$110K & UP
$20,789

We use student reviews and the most current publicly available data on our school pages. As such, we don't typically remove or edit college information. Sources for school statistics and data include the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Portions of college data include copyrighted material, which is reproduced on this website by permission of Wintergreen Orchard House, a division of Carnegie Communications. © 2009-2016 by Wintergreen Orchard House. All rights reserved.

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