Ripon College offers a very personalized academic experience for its students. The student to faculty ratio at Ripon is 14:1, which allows for hands-on experience, one on one attention with faculty and collaboration with fellow students. Ripon College also has a long standing tradition of Military Science and a legendary Reserve Officers‘ Training Corps (ROTC) program. Ripon’s Red Hawk Company was established in 1919 and is one of the first ROTC units in the state of Wisconsin. Seven cadets from the Red Hawk Company have gone on to become generals in the United States Army.