About Centre College
Preparing students for lives of learning, leadership, and service.
At Centre College, students obtain an extraordinary liberal arts and sciences education, in a supportive community, leading to a meaningful life and career.
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Why Centre?
Pursue your interests. Explore beyond your expectations. There’s a place for you at Centre, a place where you’ll learn to make a difference.
Over 200 Years of Higher Education
Values & History
Centre College opened its doors in 1819 with a single building, a faculty of two, and a student body of five. Today, there are approximately 1,400 students and 150 full-time faculty members dedicated to the mission of preparing those students for lives of learning, leadership, and service.
College Policies and Initiatives
Where we are. Where we are going. Where we want to be. Achieving the Centre experience together.
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President's Office
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Featured Event
EaSeL Evening-Bullet Journaling
Combine art, time management, and goal tracking all in one place. Join Rejoice Madembo, Reina Kunika, and Anna Bostoganashvili as they demonstrate how to use bullet journals.
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Nichols Dining Room
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Teddy Talk-How to Learn from Lectures
Feel lost in the crowd? Not sure what to write down in your lecture classes? Come participate in our discussion with Dr. Danielle La Londe, Dr. Drew Morris, and Dr. Sami Sweis as we learn what these professors hope students glean from lectures this week at Teddy Talks.
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Crounse 302
Featured Event
Sacred Fiction: Memory and Lived Religion in Contemporary Jewish American Women’s Literature
This talk surveys contemporary Jewish American women’s fiction and explores a pattern wherein ritualized and ostensibly secular reading and writing practices function as lived religion. Inherited...
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Evans-Lively Room of Old Carnegie
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On the eighth annual Building Bridges and Community Day, students, faculty and staff across campus came together to celebrate connection, learning and belonging. “ From a first-year point of view...
Homecoming Weekend 2025 showcased the strength and impact of Centre’s community, bringing alumni from all over the country back to Danville. Exceptional Centre graduates through the years were honored...
Students got an up-close look at the state’s judicial process in action when Centre College hosted two days of arguments before the Kentucky Supreme Court. The Commonwealth's highest court will be...