Roanoke College is a four-year coeducational liberal-arts college founded in 1842; it is independent but has a relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Located in Salem, Virginia, (in the Roanoke, Virginia metropolitan area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia) the school has a student body of 1,790 and a faculty of 100; its student/faculty ratio is 14-to-1. It offers 34 majors, 28 minors, and 15 concentrations.
