in the United States in the number of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hollings Scholars it has produced since that undergraduate scholarship program's inception in 2005.
Eckerd ranked No. 3 among small schools on the list of Peace Corps top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in 2020.
Eckerd was profiled in The Princeton Review's Best 386 Colleges as well as its Guide to Green Colleges in 2022.
== Campus ==
Eckerd College has a suburban 188-acre (0.76 km2) campus on Frenchman's Creek and Boca Ciega Bay, about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Gulf of Mexico beaches. The campus is near residential and commercial neighborhoods of St. Petersburg.
The college has various sustainability efforts, including bikesharing systems and efforts to reduce plastic waste.
The school is ranked on the Princeton Review's list of Green Colleges for its sustainability efforts.
In 1958, the founders of Eckerd College hired the Chicago architectural firm of Perkins and Will to design the college's campus and first …
