The Bridge

Based on enrollment figures as of Aug. 15, the entering Carthage College class totals 1,070 new undergraduate students — an all-time record.

Carthage Business and Professional Coalition welcomes new chair, unveils 2025-26 season
Carthage College is kicking off an exciting new season of its Business and Professional Coalition with a new leader and a forward-looking program lineup.
Carthage interns expand research at Johnson Space Center
Known as MOSAICS scholars, five students have spent summer 2025 in Houston as part of a program that Professor Kevin Crosby established with $300,000 in NASA seed money.
Carthage adds bachelor’s degree in biotechnology
This distinctive undergraduate biotechnology program takes advantage of Carthage’s proximity to leading biotech companies, as well as its long-running genomics research collaboration.
Carthage establishes School of Health to address regional healthcare shortages
Aligning successful programs like nursing and neuroscience with new offerings in the biomedical sciences, Carthage College intends to make the new school a highly adaptive talent incubator that relies on real-time input from regional employers and practitioners.