Marietta College

The College offers several merit scholarships and awards based on incoming student's high school GPA, as well as several premier scholarships. High-achieving accepted students are invited to compete in a weekend-long series of tests and group interviews. The John G. McCoy scholarship is awarded to the top student, receiving full tuition, room and board. Trustee scholarships are awarded to other top students, receiving full tuition. The Rickey Scholarship is awarded to the top student pursuing a degree in physics, receiving full tuition.[8] In 2019, the College began a new scholarship program, awarding up to five additional full tuition scholarships for students promoting social justice and inclusion in their community named the Charles Sumner Harrison awards after the first African-American graduate in 1876.[9]

There are three honors tracks: curriculum honors, research honors, and college honors. The curriculum honors track provides a course of study for accomplished students, requiring successful completion of five honors courses integrated within the general education requirement. The research honors designation varies across disciplines, but typically involves the writing and defense of a thesis. While most major programs require some form of student research, the honors designation can be achieved with deeper academic objectives or an interdisciplinary element. When a student completes the honors curriculum and successfully defends an honors thesis, they achieve college honors status.[10]

Marietta College is the only liberal arts institution that offers a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering.[11] In 2019, the College expanded their engineering offerings with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering.

In 2017, the College unveiled a renovated McKinney Building with a new, state-of-the-art clinical observation rooms and recording studio.[12]

Marietta College maintains a partnership with the University of International Relations, a university with ties to the Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China.[13][14][15]

In 2021, Marietta was included in national rankings by U.S. News & World Reports as #3 for Best Value Schools and #8 for Regional Colleges in the Midwest.[16] College Factual ranked Marietta #20 out of 80 Ohio schools.[17] In 2020, Washington Monthly ranked MC #62 for Bachelor's Degrees.[18]

• EXCEL (Experience Civic Engagement and Leadership) Workshop: All incoming McDonough Scholars are required to participate in this five-day event before the general new student orientation at the beginning of the fall semester. Upperclass EXCEL Leaders run this workshop and serve as mentors for the new leadership students. Participants are challenged to see themselves as active members of a new learning community.[20]
• McDonough Leadership Conference: This national event brings together undergraduate and graduate leadership students from many different institutions around the world. The conference is planned and executed by McDonough Leadership Students.[21]

Marietta sporting events are often broadcast on WMRT FM, WCMO FM, and WCMO TV the college's two FM radio stations and TV channel. All of the football games are broadcast on WMRT. Home football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, softball, and baseball games are all carried on the Marietta College radio network. The baseball games are also carried on WMOA. WMRT and WCMO broadcasts are all produced and called entirely by students, many of whom are Mass Media students.

• Ray Barnhart – Federal Highway Administration director (1981–1987) and member of the Texas House of Representatives (1973–1975); Marietta College faculty member (1951–1955).
• E. Jocob Crull (attended in 1880–81) – Montana State Representative and colonel who was Jennette Rankin's (first female member of the U.S. Congress) chief primary rival.
• Charles Gates Dawes 1884 — U.S. vice president, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, and U.S. Ambassador
• Glen Gainer, Jr. – State Auditor of West Virginia, 1977–1993.
• William Irwin 1848 – 13th Governor of California.[37]
• Carte Goodwin 1996 – U.S. Senator from West Virginia.
• C. William O'Neill 1938 – 59th Governor of Ohio.[38]
• Walter Cowen Short (attended 1887–1888) - US Army brigadier general[39]
• John M. Stowell – Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Willard Warner 1845 – U.S. Senator from Alabama, 1868–71.
• Albert B. White – 11th Governor of West Virginia[40]
• Joseph G. Wilson 1846 – U.S. Congressman from Oregon, justice on the Oregon Supreme Court.

• F. Story Musgrave 1960 – Retired NASA Astronaut and Shuttle Pilot.
• Wilbur Schramm 1928 – Founding Father of the Communication Studies Discipline.

• Dane Dastillung – American football player
• Ban Johnson 1887 – Founder of baseball's American League.[41]
• Terry Mulholland 1985 – Former Major League Baseball pitcher.[42]
• Don Schaly 1959 – ABCA Hall of Fame member, all-time winningest baseball coach in Division III history.

• John Strotbeck, Jr. – Former U.S. Olympic Rower and owner of Boathouse Sports.
• Kent Tekulve 1969 – Former Major League Baseball pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates.
• Jim Tracy 1978 – Former Major League Baseball manager with the Colorado Rockies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers.

• Kathy Brodsky 1967 – American Author and Poet.[43]
• Nick Gehlfuss 2007 – Actor[44]
• Gary Kott 1969 – Award-winning television and advertising writer, and an American Folk Artist. A writer and supervising producer of The Cosby Show, Kott worked on the program during its five consecutive years of number one Nielsen ratings.
• Joy Williams – an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

• Dean Hess 1941 – Clergyman, Soldier, Humanitarian.
• Elsie Eaton Newton (1871-1941) – first Dean of Women at Marietta, daughter of John Eaton Jr.
• Andrea Parhamovich 2000 – National Democratic Institute employee killed in Baghdad, Iraq on January 17, 2007.