The Citadel
Charleston, SC
According to its mission statement, "The Citadel’s mission is to educate and prepare graduates to become principled leaders in all walks of life by instilling the core values [Academics, Duty, Honor, Morality, Discipline, Diversity] of The Citadel in a challenging intellectual environment. The Citadel strives to produce graduates who have insight into issues, ideas, and values that are of importance to society. It is equally important that Citadel graduates are capable of both critical and creative thinking, have effective communication skills, can apply abstract concepts to concrete situations, and possess the methodological skills needed to gather and analyze information." [Source]
Website: http://www.citadel.edu/
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Undergraduate
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Composition
YES
Literature
Foreign Language
U.S. Government/History
YES
Economics
Mathematics
YES
Science
YES

The Citadel uses one or more of the following instruments to assess undergraduate progress in core collegiate skills: the Council on Aid to Education Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), the Educational Testing Service Proficiency Profile, or the ACT Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP).
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2021-22 enrollment and tuition data, and four-year graduation rates for first-time, full-time freshmen who enrolled in Fall 2012, are derived from the National Center for Education Statistics’ College Navigator.