PALMER COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC H-16

1000 Brady St.
Davenport, IA 52803-5287
Tel: (563)884-5000
Free: 800-722-3648
Admissions: (563)884-5656
Fax: (563)884-5897
E-mail: pcadmit@palmer.edu
Web Site: http://www.palmer.edu/

Description:

Independent, comprehensive, coed. Awards associate, incidental bachelor's, master's, and first professional degrees. Founded 1897. Setting: urban campus. Total enrollment: 1,669. Faculty: 126 (all full-time). Student-undergrad faculty ratio is 13:1. Full-time: 92 students, 65% women, 35% men. Part-time: 5 students, 20% women, 80% men. 0% Native American, 2% Hispanic, 3% black, 2% Asian American or Pacific Islander, 0% international. Academic area with the most degrees conferred: health professions and related sciences. Core. Calendar: trimesters. Academic remediation for entering students, services for LD students, summer session for credit, internships.

Entrance Requirements:

Options: Peterson's Universal Application, Common Application, electronic application, deferred admission. Required: high school transcript, minimum 2.0 high school GPA, minimum 2.0 in math, science, and English courses. Required for some: essay, interview. Entrance: moderately difficult. Application deadline: Rolling. Notification: continuous. Preference given to students from colleges with whom PCC has an articulation agreement.

Costs Per Year:

Application fee: $50. Tuition: $5640 full-time, $137 per credit part-time. Mandatory fees: $255 full-time, $100 per term part-time.

Collegiate Environment:

Orientation program. Student-run newspaper. Social organizations: 60 open to all; local fraternities, local sororities. Most popular organizations: Gonstead Club, intramural sports, campus guides, Student International Chiropractic Association, Palmer Student Alumni Foundation. Major annual events: homecoming, Chili Cook-off, Fall Harvest. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling. Campus security: 24-hour emergency response devices and patrols, late night transport-escort service. College housing not available. D. D. Palmer Health Sciences Library with 55,278 books, 2,297 microform titles, 525 serials, 22,225 audiovisual materials, an OPAC, and a Web page. Operations spending 2003-04: $840,766. 75 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from off-campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.

Community Environment:

The Quad-Cities area, a community of about 400,000, offers a wide variety of entertainment options including more than 275 restaurants; professional basketball and ice hockey; Class A baseball; arena football; 60 miles of bike trails; theater, museums and the art galleries.