Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life. The college enrolls students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries.

Denison engages its students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Denison students pursue a major field of study in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college.

For Denison students, their college education is not just for a living but for a life. Graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.