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campus map www.wellesley.edu class of 2007 class of 2007 career resources distribution of majors employment/graduate school statistics* center for work and Humanities 28.1% service (cws) Art and Architecture 6.5% Employment by Field wellesley college • Offers career counseling services • Pforzheimer Learning and English 6.5% Arts/Communication/Media 6.9% to students and alumnae Teaching Center Business 34.6% history and mission faculty French 4.4% • Provides accessibility to the CWS finances Education 15.0% • Founded in 1870 by Henry and • 347 full- and part-time • Science Center Spanish 4.9% library and various online resources; endowment Pauline Durant faculty members Other 5.8% Government/Public Policy 3.8% • Wellesley Centers for Women Wellesley’s own networking data- • The market value as of June 30, Health-related 11.9% • Mission is to provide an excellent • 54% of tenured faculty are women base, the W Network, which consists • Wellesley College Botanic 2007 was $1.6 billion Social Sciences 40.9% Law 5.7% liberal arts education for women who international study of over 30,000 alumnae; a recruit- alumnae • Student/faculty ratio of 9 to 1 Gardens, including Margaret Economics 13.0% ment program; not-for-profit tuition and fees (2007-2008) Not-for-Profit 3.8% will make a difference in the world • Administers programs in Vienna, C. Ferguson Greenhouses, the • 36,000 living alumnae career fairs; and graduate advising Tuition $34,770 History 3.2% Science/Technology 2.6% • Commitment to intellectual Austria, and Aix-en-Provence, France Alexandra Botanic Garden and • 100 active Wellesley Clubs academic opportunities Philosophy 1.3% Other 15.7% scholarship, research, and innovative Hunnewell Arboretum • Supports numerous student intern- Room and board $ 10,826 majors • Member of consortia with programs • More than 40 key alumnae Political Science 8.8% teaching provides an environment in Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain ships and service endeavors • More than 1,000 courses offered • Whitin Observatory Student activity fee $224 contacts world wide Psychology 7.6% Graduate School by Degree in which women can achieve and in 53 areas of study • Sponsors day and weeklong • Participates in additional exchange Total tuition and fees $45,820 Sociology 1.8% Arts and Design 10.0% excel to meet their personal goals technology community-service projects alumnae association For more information, please visit programs with universities in Women’s Studies 1.6% Business/Management 5.0% • Strengthens alumnae connections Argentina, Japan, Korea, France, • Accessibility to a wide range of For more information, please visit financial Aid Education 7.0% location www.wellesley.edu/admission to the College and to each other Other 3.6% and the United Kingdom online resources from any campus • Average financial award for • 12 miles west of in the town www.wellesley.edu/cws Government/Public Affairs 5.0% exchange programs building via the campus network 2006–2007 was $28,919 in work through alumnae class programs of Wellesley, and reunions; academic symposia Mathematics and Science 14.7% Humanities/Social Sciences 13.0% • Cross-registration programs summer school study, loans, and grants • Wireless internet available in sports and athletics and faculty speaker programs; Biological Chemistry 2.3% Human Services/Psychology 6.0% • Occupies more than 450 rolling with MIT, Babson, • Co-educational program featuring addition to wired connections in • 13 varsity sports; Division III • Approximately 55% of all students alumnae achievement awards; club Biological Sciences 3.1% acres of cultivated and natural areas of Engineering, and Brandeis full credit courses drawn from the Law 11.0% the libraries, residence halls, Wang athletics receive aid directly from the College adjacent to Lake Waban regular Wellesley curriculum and regional events; volunteer train- Chemistry 1.6% Medicine/Health-related 18.0% • Five-year BA/BS double degree Campus Center and all study • Instructional programs in • Aid is awarded based on need ing weekends; Wellesley Education Computer Science 1.0% Sciences 16.0% • Open to all college students and program with MIT; BA/MA double locations in academic buildings Expeditions, and Wellesley, a quarterly student enrollment fitness, sports, and dance established by required financial Mathematics 2.8% Other 9.0% degree in international economics college graduates, as well as eligible • E-mail, computing workstations, and information magazine sent to alumnae and • 2,300 women representing 50 states commuting high school juniors • Nannerl Overholser Keohane Neuroscience 2.0% *Response rate: 72% and finance at Brandeis free printing available across campus friends of the College and 62 countries of residence Sports Center houses volleyball, and seniors fund year statistics Physics and Astrophysics 1.9% • Twelve College Exchange • FirstClass®, a centralized e-mail and squash, and racquetball courts, class of 2011 stats (2006–07) after wellesley: Program with Amherst, Bowdoin, facilities conferencing system, supports aca- weight rooms, fencing/ dance/ Interdisciplinary 16.3% • Of those candidates ranked, , Dartmouth, (Gifts and Bequests) a few statistics • Buildings range in style from demic and extracurricular activities exercise studios, and the American Studies 1.5% 94% were in the top fifth of Mount Holyoke, Smith, Trinity, Alumnae $46,812,101 • 53% of Wellesley’s biological Gothic with stone towers and brick Chandler Pool Cinema & Media Studies 1.5% their high school class Vassar, Wesleyan and Wheaton • High-end laboratories provide Foundations and chemistry majors who graduated quadrangles to state-of-the-art opportunities for developing skills • The Towne Field House includes corporations $3,705,102 in 2006 entered graduate or profes- International Relations 5.0% Mean : • Other exchanges include Mills facilities for the sciences, arts, with advanced software tennis, volleyball, and Parents, friends, sional school directly following Other 8.3% Reading 700 College, the National Theater and sports courts, a 200-meter track and an and other $13,661,862 graduation or the year after Writing 694 • The Knapp Media and Technology Institute, , and the indoor golf and archery practice area Total $64,179,065 • 21 residence halls Center provides accessibility to a • Another 35% are working in science Math 687 Williams Mystic Seaport Program Percentage of Number of applicants: 4137 in American Maritime Studies • Clapp Library, plus Art, Astronomy, television studio as well as audio • Lake Waban, Nehoiden golf course, alumnae donors 50% for two years before entering and video digitizing, editing, scan- outdoor tennis courts, 3 natural graduate or professional school Number enrolled (as of 8/16/07): 593 Music, and Science libraries ning, large format printing, and turf fields, a softball field, and an Ethnically diverse students: 43% • Davis Museum and Cultural Center • Over the past five years, Wellesley’s videoconferencing equipment 8-lane outdoor track around an International citizens: 9% average acceptance rate to medical • Keohane Sports Center artificial turf field provide additional schools has been 70% wellesley college U.S. states represented: 42 athletic and recreational opportunities • Knapp Media and Technology Center 106 Central Street Countries represented: 29 • Last year, 84% of both Wellesley Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 • Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center students and alumnae who applied 781.283.1000 were accepted to law school • Newhouse Center for the Humanities www.wellesley.edu

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