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Wabash at a Glance 1

WABASH COLLEGE AT A Students Wabash’s 868 male students come from 31 states and 19 foreign GLANCE countries. Seventy-seven percent are from . Test scores from the middle 50 percent of entering freshmen range as follows: SAT evidence- based reading and writing 550-650 and SAT math 570-670. Each year, Founded approximately 250 freshmen and a few transfer students enroll. 1832 Faculty Type In 2020-21, 85 of the 87 full-time faculty members at Wabash held a Private, independent, four-year liberal arts college for men, granting Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree. Wabash’s special strength lies with a Bachelor of Arts degree. faculty dedicated to teaching undergraduate students. Location Student/Faculty Ratio Crawfordsville, Indiana, a community of 16,100, is the county seat of In 2020-21, Wabash had a student/faculty ratio of 9.5/1. Montgomery County, population 38,300. Crawfordsville is located 45 miles northwest of and 150 miles southeast of Chicago. Majors Wabash offers 27 majors in the following areas: Art, Biochemistry, Endowment Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Computer Science, Economics, English, As of June 30, 2019, the value of Wabash’s endowment was French, German, Greek, History, Latin, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, approximately $344 million, with a per-student endowment of about Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Rhetoric, Spanish, and $396,000. Wabash ranks near the top of all private in the country. Theater, along with multidisciplinary majors in Financial Economics, Hispanic Studies, and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and a self- Financial Aid designed major in Humanities and Fine Arts. Students may choose a double major; participate in the Business Leadership Program; or enroll Nearly all students at Wabash receive some form of student aid. in a 3-2 engineering program with Columbia , , or Washington University in St. Louis. These academic programs are Tuition and Fees augmented with on and off-campus internships; collaborative research For the 2021-2022 academic year, tuition is $45,000, Room fees in with faculty; off-campus externships; and Wabash’s Summer Business College-owned housing are $6,200 per year. Board plans vary by the Immersion Program. number of meals per week. The 19-meal plan is $5,400 per year and the 15-meal plan is $5,000 per year. Mandatory fees for student activities Library Collections and Services and the Health Center are $450 and $400 per year, respectively. Wabash students rely on the Lilly Library to meet their research and information needs. Our collections include 225,000 print books, 1,765,000 The College’s Campus electronic books, and 125,000 electronic journals. We also offer The 94-acre wooded campus contains over 60 buildings predominantly streaming movies and music as well as DVDs and CDs. Built in 1959, of Georgian architecture. Caleb Mills taught the first class of Wabash the Library was renovated and expanded in 1992. In 2014, the Library students on December 3, 1833 in Forest Hall, located since 1965 at the welcomed the 1832 Brew coffee shop followed by the Writing Center north end of campus and now home to the Department of Education in 2016. The Ramsay Archives and Special Collections documents the Studies. Built in 1836, Caleb Mills’ House hosts various college functions. life of the College, including old editions of the student newspaper (The Center Hall, home to the departments of English, Philosophy, and Bachelor) and yearbook. The Educational Technology Center provides the Religion, as well as administrative offices, was built over 160 years ago equipment and training for a range of media projects. and is the oldest continuously used classroom building on campus.

Twenty-six campus buildings have either been renovated or are new Computers in the last 20 years, including a new $13 million Little Giant Stadium; More than 360 systems are dedicated for students. Three public a $23 million investment in the construction of the Ott Residential Life computer labs are available, one of which is open 24 hours/day. District and renovation of Martindale Hall; the Shelbourne Wrestling Departmental and specialized computer labs include a digital media lab; Center; 170,000-square-foot Allen Athletics and Recreation Center; two calculus labs; a molecular modeling lab; art and music labs; two 81,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Hays Hall (biology and chemistry); social science labs; and six mobile wireless computing labs for chemistry, Trippet Hall, home of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash biology, physics, and art. Software includes Microsoft Office, Adobe College; and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology Creative Suite, Box, Zoom, Mathematica, SPSS, computer programming and Religion. languages, and a variety of course-specific applications. An innovative “virtual computer lab” system offers access to network resources and lab Most of the College’s structures circle the Wabash Mall with Trippet Hall software from student personal computers, whether on or off campus. A on the north end and the Pioneer Chapel on the south end. The Fine Arts high-speed ethernet network links all campus systems, and provides high- Center, which houses the Art, Music, Rhetoric, and Theater departments, speed Internet access. Wireless networking access is available campus- is adjacent to the Fuller Arboretum, an open expanse of trees and brick wide, including in dormitories and . paths. 2 at a Glance

School, University of Michigan Law School, IU Kelley School of Business, Automobiles IU School of Medicine and IU School of Dentistry, IU McKinney School of There are no restrictions regarding student automobiles. Vehicles are Law, Princeton University, Wake Forest University, and registered at no cost and all campus parking regulations are expected to UCLA to name a small selection. be followed. Address Housing For additional information, write to: All students are required to live in college housing. Students may live in one of six residence halls: College Hall, Martindale Hall, Rogge Wabash College Hall, Wolcott Hall, Morris Hall and Williams Hall; in one of ten national Admissions Office fraternities: , , , Lambda Chi P.O. Box 352 Alpha, , , Phi , , Tau Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352 Kappa Epsilon, and ; or in College-owned houses that Phone: 1-800-345-5385 or 765-361-6225 include two townhomes: the Butler House and the Seymour House. Fax: 765-361-6437 Students may also live in one of the lodges (Placher Lodge) attached to email: [email protected] Williams Hall or the lodge attached to Rogge. Approximately sixty percent website: http://www.wabash.edu of students reside in a while 40% live in one of the residence halls, lodges, or campus-owned houses. The entire campus is served Accreditation with a wireless Internet network. Wabash College is accredited by:

Sports Higher Learning Commission Wabash competes at the NCAA Division III level in 13 varsity sports 230 South LaSalle Street, Suite 7-500 —football, cross country, soccer, golf, , indoor track and Chicago, Illinois 60604-1411 field, outdoor track and field, wrestling, tennis, swimming & diving, Phone: 800-621-7440 volleyball, lacrosse, and baseball—as a member of the North Coast website: https://www.hlcommission.org/ Athletic Conference. In addition, students may participate in a variety of Wabash College is authorized by name by the State of Indiana through intramural sports, including soccer, flag football, basketball, dodgeball statute (Indiana Code 21-7-13-6). Wabash’s program in chemistry (http:// and softball. More than three-quarters of Wabash students participate in bulletin.wabash.edu/programsaz/chemistry/) is accredited by the at least one intramural sport. American Chemical Society. Extracurricular Activities Wabash students take part in more than 50 Student Senate-recognized clubs and organizations, such as student government; departmental clubs; political clubs; speech, music, and theater groups; various literary publications, a weekly newspaper, and yearbook; student-run radio; special interest groups; and religious groups. Internships More than 91 percent of Wabash graduates complete an internship during their college careers, and more than 88 percent complete two or more internships. In Summer 2021, students interned with a wide variety of organizations, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sach, First Financial, & Co., Cummins, Trek10, Wells- Fargo, Williamstown Theater Festival, Chrysler, , Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IDEA Public Schools, and Handshake. They also secured internships at start-ups and technology programs such as Purchasing Platform, LEDIndy, Capturly, Bridgebuilders, Archon Tech, and TechPoint. Graduates In 2021, at Commencement, 83 percent of all graduates had secured employment, fellowship, or postgraduate education. Wabash graduates accepted positions with Eli Lilly & Co., Goldman-Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, IU Health, SalesForce, Spot, Liberty Mutual, Morgan Stanley, Teach for America, Charles Schwab, BKD Corporate Finance, Chicago Cubs, Elanco, United Health, and Pacific Life among many others. This year, 29 percent of the graduating class went directly into graduate, medical, or law school. Wabash had three graduates named Orr Fellows, along with four Fulbright Fellows. Graduates pursued further education at University of Notre Dame, DePaul University, Georgetown Law School, Duke Law