Learning Through Action
Wesleyan attracts people who believe being smart is never enough. We want our students to be able to transform intellectual rigor into real-world action. That’s why learning through action is so central to the education and experience here.
Learning While Helping the Community
In Wesleyan’s Community-Engaged Learning courses students experience the real-world impact of their studies. These courses give students the chance to apply classroom theories to address the needs of community partners. Students gain new knowledge and skills while providing valuable services to community organizations.
Results By the Numbers
Wesleyan students have many opportunities to learn while simultaneously making a real impact in the community.
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1,300 Pieces of Clothing Repurposed by WesThrift Free Store
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$50k Yearly Community Support Raised by WESU Radio
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4,000 Free Rides Provided by XtraMile Shuttle Service
Explore the World鈥擜nd Your Place in It
Wesleyan is a multi-dimensional, global campus, representative of our increasingly interconnected world—and that’s both important and intentional. We actively recruit and welcome international students to join us in Middletown, Connecticut, and we embrace the many cultures, traditions, and perspectives they bring to our campus.
We also encourage students across all of our disciplines to discover how they can pursue their academic goals in over 300 opportunities to study abroad. At Wesleyan, studying abroad is an integral part of your education. All programs we offer are carefully vetted by Wesleyan faculty and staff, financial aid travels with you when you study abroad, and credits and grades automatically transfer to ensure you stay on track with your plan of study.
Career Support and Guidance From Day One
From your very first day on campus to your life as an alum, our Gordon Career Center will be there to prepare you to succeed in the life you choose. We provide you with the tools you need to map out your future, step by step. It’s more than teaching students how to write a compelling resume — although we do that too. It’s about preparing students for their professional trajectory beyond Wesleyan.
This includes internship support and placement, summer grant opportunities, mentoring programs that connect alumni and students, support from career counselors and peer advisors, courses and programs to help students develop critical career skills, access to alumni and employer networks, job listings across a wide range of industries and long-term resources for alumni already well on their way.
Learn by Doing
At Wesleyan, theory meets practice. From the arts to the sciences, students immerse themselves in hands-on experiences that turn academic knowledge into real-world skills.
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I was able to pursue an opportunity oriented towards helping others through the practice of service, which was also nourishment to my own soul.
Laurence Fine 鈥�25
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At its core, we are interested in hands-on course work鈥攍earning through making. That is central to the studio model and to our engineering curriculum
Elijah Huge
Associate Professor of Art and Director of CoDES
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I want to build things that people interact with and things that people play with.
Peter Ketels Fulweiler 鈥�23
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What I've learned to love about documentary is the adventure of it. Being able to engage in the world in these really creative cool ways that I wouldn't be able to without doc, that's my favorite part of it.
Maddie Nagler 鈥�22
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The point of our trip was to gather information that we would not have been able to by just doing research from a desk. We wanted to get on the ground to talk to people who were directly experiencing and witnessing various human rights abuses.
Annie McGovern 鈥�22
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Where you鈥檒l come here on a weekend, and you鈥檒l see folks editing something together in one of our edit suites and a different team strategizing a project in our co-working lounge. It鈥檚 a free-flowing incubator of creative talent and possibility on campus.
Pedro Bermudez
Assistant Professor of the Practice in Video and Audio Production
The Patricelli Center
Located inside Wesleyan’s Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship offers classes, grants, and advising to support Wesleyan student entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and changemakers focusing on social impact. The Patricelli Center helps students build problem-solving mindsets and skill sets, gain creative confidence and competence, develop comfort with ambiguity, and translate theory to practice.
