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Gustavus Adolphus is currently ranked among the best 100 national liberal arts colleges by U. S. News & World Report.

Gustavus is ranked 85th in the 2013 rankings.

Students choose from over 70 programs of study with 75 majors in 24 academic departments and three interdisciplinary programs ( including 14 honors majors ), ranging from physics to religion to Scandinavian studies.

The College's Writing Across the Curriculum program fosters writing skills in all academic disciplines.

Since 1983, the college has had a chapter of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa.

The school operates Curriculum II, an interdisciplinary general education program.

Recently the college instituted a test-optional admission policy, making it the first private college in Minnesota to forgo the ACT / SAT score requirement on its application.