Lake Forest College

Lake Forest Collegeis aprivateliberal arts collegeinLake Forest, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1857 asLind Universityby a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts institution since 1903.Lake Forest enrolls approximately 1,800 studentsrepresenting 43 states and 114 countries.Lake Forest offers 34 undergraduate majors and 49 minor programsin the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and features programs of study in pre-law, pre-medicine, communication, business, finance, and computer science.Most students live on the college's wooded107-acre (43ha)campus located0.5 miles (0.80km)from theLake Michiganshore; however, the population of commuting students has increased in the past few years.