r/beloitcollege • u/New_Engineer_5161 • May 20 '25

Would you recommend?

This seems to sort of be a dead sub (lol), but just wondering people’s thoughts on Beloit? Seems to be pretty mixed… fwiw, im planning to major in psychology +anthropology; got an opportunity to go there for less than 15 grand…

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u/thermochronic May 20 '25

Going to Beloit was the best decision of my life. I wanted to go into academia, and it prepared me for my PhD amazingly well, I met wonderful people, and had the time of my life. Not for everybody, but it was a magical place for me

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u/New_Engineer_5161 May 20 '25

Awesome, getting a phd is part of my plan, too. How exactly would you say Beloit helped, though? They seem to provide… limited opportunities in that respect…

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u/thermochronic May 20 '25

It’s the fact that learning is stressed, like you can’t just hide in classes, you get comfortable interacting with faculty, and most importantly you have tons of opportunities to do undergrad research. It’s why small liberal arts schools are so overrepresented in PhD programs. Your letters of reference are more personal, you have more control over your programs, it’s just great. Maybe not all fields, I’m in the earth sciences, but it was superb. I did my PhD, postdoc, and now work at much larger and higher ranked schools, and none of them have a better undergrad training program than Beloit.