About Washington College
Quick Facts
Founded in 1782 under the patronage of George Washington, Washington College was the first college chartered in the new nation. Today it ranks among the nation's top 100 selective liberal arts colleges.
Students
- Approximately 1,400 undergraduates from 35 states and 40 nations attend WC. Slightly more than half are from public schools, 7% are minority students; 3% are international.
- Our student-to-faculty ratio is 12-to-1. The average class size is 17 students; only 1 in 7 classes has more than 25 students.
- Of the most recent entering class, 60% took Advanced Placement coursework, 57% played a varsity sport, 43% were members of the National Honor Society, 33% had a music background, and 31% held a leadership position during their high school careers.
Experiential Learning
- More than 30 students participate each year in the College's National Model UN programs.
- The Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows provides nearly $100,000 annually in grants of $500 to $3,000 to support student-designed projects and research activities.
- The Sophie Kerr Prize is the largest literary undergraduate prize in America. The 2007 winner received a check for $60,000.
- The College's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience sponsors the annual George Washington Book Prize, a nationally prominent award for the year's best work on early American History.
- We offer more than 40 study abroad programs.
Our Location
- Our rural, 120-acre campus is in a residential community on Maryland's Eastern Shore, about 90 minutes from Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, DC.