Why Wesleyan
Learning is a way of life here…a way of life defined by action.
Every day brings new opportunities to deepen your knowledge, challenge your assumptions, push past obstacles, and do meaningful work that matters to you and the world around you. Choosing among 1000 courses, 47 majors, and 32 minors, you create your academic journey in unexpected and innovative ways. Sparked by curiosity and sustained in collaboration with superb scholars and fellow students, your journey is at once yours–and ours.
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3,000 Full-time Undergraduates
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7:1 Student-Faculty Ratio
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316 Acre Campus
We want each student who comes to Wesleyan to get three things out of their education: discovering what they love to do; getting better at it; learning to share it with others. 鈥�
An Empowering Approach to Education
Learning Through Action
Whatever you choose to study 九色视频, you won’t stand on the sidelines, reading the outcomes of someone else’s work or relying on the pages of a textbook to tell you what you need to know. You will engage in passionate discourse and debate, challenge your assumptions, and work through purposeful, hands-on collaboration in the classroom, in the lab, and beyond the border of campus.
Expression Through the Arts
Research with Impact
Wesleyan’s unique blend of undergraduate focus and high research expectations has earned it the top ranking for grant-supported research among liberal arts colleges. Every department, college, and academic center integrates opportunities to do meaningful interdisciplinary research alongside expert scholar-teachers who want you to work with them—not for them.
Engagement is Woven In
On campus and off, Wesleyans are catalysts of positive change and impact. In their hands, theory becomes practice, ideas become innovations, and hope becomes change. This is a place that nurtures students’ strong social conscience, awareness, business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking both inside and outside the classroom through volunteerism, sustainability practices, service-learning programs, and our various community engagement centers.
Together, We Make Wesleyan
Our community is strengthened through difference: varied voices, different backgrounds, diverse experiences. Wesleyan provides resources, events, and dedicated staff to help our community come together and remove barriers that have traditionally separated people.
Wesleyan Voices
Discover how Wesleyan’s unique approach to education fosters deep engagement and collaboration, preparing you to make a lasting impact on the world around us.
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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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A student who is interested in being an artist, but also wants to learn about engineering, the sciences, or the social sciences, can do so. It is about building a conversation across disciplines.
Elijah Huge
Associate Professor of Art and Director of CoDES
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I was drawn to this community of people who are just as passionate about their field of public service as I am. To be the most effective advocate that you can be, it is really important that you have people around you that are going to support you.
Desaree Edwards 鈥�25
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At Wesleyan, I鈥檝e been able to work in an environment where I can do the highest level of research as well as teaching鈥擶esleyan is unusual in that it allows for research at this level even though it is not a huge institution.
Martha 鈥淢arty鈥� Gilmore
Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Joshua Boger University Professor of The Sciences and Mathematics
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Because we want a safe space for our students, we innately want a safe space for everyone in Middletown. I think it鈥檚 really important for us to be in solidarity with the people who we share such a close space with.
Jose Pagan 鈥�22
Assistant Director of Alumni and Parent Engagement
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Art education supports mental balance and channelizes one鈥檚 thoughts. It exposes us to diverse cultures and creates curiosity to understand other traditions.
Balu Balasubrahmaniyan
Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and Adjunct Associate Professor of Global South Asian Studies
