Editing University of Puget Sound (section)

==Academics==
The institution offers more than fifty traditional and nontraditional areas of study in the liberal arts and sciences, as well as graduate programs in [[occupational therapy]], [[physical therapy]], and education. It recently launched a master of public health program.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Master of Public Health {{!}} University of Puget Sound |url=https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/master-public-health |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=www.pugetsound.edu}}</ref><ref name="harned">[http://www.ups.edu/x2234.xml Dedication of new science building, Harned Hall, set for September 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051121110857/http://www.ups.edu/x2234.xml |date=2005-11-21 }}</ref> The student to faculty ratio is 12 to 1.<ref name=About/>

===Rankings and reputation===
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In 2012, Puget Sound was named one of forty schools nationwide in the college guide ''[[Colleges That Change Lives]]: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pugetsound.edu/news-and-events/campus-news/details/1055/ |title=40 Colleges That Change Lives: Puget Sound is Selected to Join Elite Group |publisher=University of Puget Sound |date=2012-08-28 |access-date=2014-08-22}}</ref>

The institution has ranked among the top five small liberal arts colleges for the number of graduates who participate in [[Peace Corps]]; in 2007, it ranked first.<ref>[http://www.peacecorps.gov/news/resources/stats/pdf/schools2007.pdf Peace Corps Top Schools for 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070615012301/http://www.peacecorps.gov/news/resources/stats/pdf/schools2007.pdf |date=2007-06-15 }}</ref>

Puget Sound professors have been named Washington State Professor of the Year seven times by the [[Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching]] and the [[Council for the Advancement and Support of Education]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/faculty-scholarship/teaching-awards/professors-of-the-year/ |title=Professors of the Year |publisher=University of Puget Sound |date=2007-02-06 |access-date=2014-08-22}}</ref>

===Admissions===
For the Class of 2022 (enrolling fall 2018), University of Puget Sound received 5,730 applications, admitted 3,060 (58.3%), and enrolled 653 students.<ref name=CommonDataSet>{{cite web |url=https://www.pugetsound.edu/files/resources/cds2018-19-4.pdf |title=University of Puget Sound Common Data Set 2018-2019, Part C |publisher=University of Puget Sound}}</ref> For the freshmen who enrolled, the middle 50% range of [[SAT]] scores was 1230-1450, the [[ACT (examination)|ACT]] composite range was 27–32, and the average high school grade point average was 3.70.<ref name=CommonDataSet/>

===International programs===
The institution sponsors [[study abroad]] programs in [[Argentina]], [[Australia]], [[Austria]], [[Chile]], [[China]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Denmark]], [[England]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Greece]], [[Ireland]], [[Italy]], [[Japan]], the [[Netherlands]], [[New Zealand]], the [[Pacific Rim]], [[Scotland]], [[Spain]], [[Taiwan]], and [[Wales]].<ref>University of Puget Sound, [http://www2.ups.edu/intlprogs/List_of_Programs.htm List of Study Abroad Programs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110050809/http://www2.ups.edu/intlprogs/List_of_Programs.htm |date=2006-01-10 }}</ref>

The program in the Pacific Rim, known as PacRim, or the Pacific Rim/Asia Study-Travel Program (PRAST) is unique to Puget Sound. Every three years a group of fifteen to twenty-five students are selected to spend two semesters traveling, studying, and researching in eight Asian countries. Students must have taken three courses in the Asian studies program and completed a course of readings assigned by the director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/asian-studies/pac-rim/ |title=Pacific Rim/Asia Study-Travel Program |publisher=University of Puget Sound |access-date=2014-08-22}}</ref> Over the program's 40-year history students have visited: [[Mongolia]], [[People's Republic of China]], [[Japan]], [[South Korea]], [[India]], [[Nepal]], [[Vietnam]], [[Thailand]], [[Cambodia]], [[Malaysia]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Indonesia]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Fiji]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Iran]], and [[Yugoslavia]]. Previous lecturers have included: [[Johan Galtung]], [[Ken Yeang]], M.S. Nagaraja Rao, [[Jack Weatherford]], the [[14th Dalai Lama]], Swasti Sri Charukeerthi Bhattaraka, [[Ogyen Trinley Dorje]], [[Khyongla Rato Rinpoche]], and [[Sogyal Rinpoche]].