Hollins University is a non-public institution of higher education located in Hollins, Virginia. It is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women in the United States and was established in 1842 in the historic village of Botetourt Springs under the name Valley Union Seminary. About 800 undergraduates and graduate students are now enrolled at Hollins. The undergraduate programmes of Virginia's first authorised women's college are restricted to female students alone. Men only are allowed to participate in the graduate-level programmes. Annie Dillard, Natasha Trethewey, and Henry S. Taylor are just a few of the authors who have graduated from Hollins' writing programmes and gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Hollins is well-known for both its undergraduate and graduate writing programmes. UC-first Berkeley's tenured female physicist was Mary Garber, who was also a pioneering sportswriter. [5] Kiran Desai, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2006, was the first renowned female physicist to graduate from UC-Berkeley (and a principal contributor to theories for detecting the Higgs boson) Mary K. Gaillard, Margaret Wise Brown (author of Goodnight Moon), Lee Smith (author), Sally Mann (photography), and Ellen Malcolm (founder of EMILY's List) are some of the women who have been honoured.
THE APPLICATION FEE TO HOLLINS UNIVERSITY IS WAIVED OFF for few Programs If you apply through Grad-Dreams
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS AT HOLLINS UNIVERSITY
English proficiency is required from all students, the students can take TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE. Following are the approximate test requirements
TOEFL
IELTS
PTE
80
6.5
65
Students may require to take certain standardised tests for specific courses. SAT may be required to apply to Bachelors, GRE for Masters, and GRE and GMAT for MBA. Check the specific program websites for requirements or talk to our admission counselors for free
SAT
GRE
GMAT
1126
not require
not require
Minimum GPA requirement is 2.5, But certain programs may have higher requirements
FACTS
Hollins University is a private liberal arts college for women in Roanoke, Virginia.
It was founded in 1842 by the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Hollins is the oldest women's college in the South and the 12th oldest women's college in the United States.
The university offers bachelor's degrees in over 40 majors, as well as master's degrees in education, nursing, and business administration.
Hollins has a student body of over 1,000 students, with over 90% of students identifying as women.
At Hollins, housing and eating plans are priced independently from one another. In the year 2020, the cost of housing an average student was $8,450, and the cost of meals was $5,480.
