Founded
1832
Type
Private, independent, four-year liberal arts college for men, granting Bachelor of Arts degree.
Location
Crawfordsville, Indiana, a community of 20,000 located 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis and 150 miles southeast of Chicago.
Endowment
As of June 30, 2004, the value of Wabash's endowment was $307 million, with a per student endowment of approximately $361,176. Wabash ranks near the top of all private colleges in the country.
Financial Aid
Approximately 90 percent of students receive some form of student aid.
Tuition and Fees
For the 2004-2005 academic year, tuition is $21,870. Room and board charges are $7,050, and the activities fee is $404 for an annual total of $29,324.
Campus
The 60-acre wooded campus contains 39 buildings predominantly of Georgian architecture. Caleb Mills taught the first class of Wabash students in 1833 in Forest Hall, located since 1965 at the north end of campus and now home to the Office of Teacher Education. Built in 1836, Caleb Mills' House hosts various college functions. Also built in 1836, Hovey Cottage, home to the College's second faculty member, Edmund O. Hovey, houses the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. Nine campus buildings have either been renovated or are new in the last 10 years, including the 170,000-square-foot Allen Athletics and Recreation Center, a new biology and chemistry building, and Trippet Hall, home of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College.
Students
Wabash's 860 male students come from 34 states and several foreign countries. Seventy-four percent are from Indiana. Test scores range from the middle 50 percent of entering freshmen: SAT verbal 538-650, SAT math 558-650. Each year, approximately 250 freshmen and 10 transfer students enroll.
Faculty
More than 95 percent of the 88 faculty members at Wabash hold a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree. Wabash's special strength lies with a faculty dedicated to teaching undergraduate students.
Student/Faculty ratio
Wabash maintains a student/faculty ratio of 10/1.
Majors
Wabash offers 21 majors in the following areas: Art, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English, French, German, Greek, History, Latin, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Spanish, Speech, and Theater. Students may choose a double major, a 3-2 engineering program with Columbia University or Washington University (St. Louis), or a 3-3 program in law with Columbia University. Students interested in secondary education may participate in the Ninth Semester Teacher Education Program.
Library Collections and Services
Lilly Library, built in 1959, was renovated and expanded in 1992. The holdings include more than 434,460 books, serial backfiles, and government-documents; 5,530 serial subscriptions, including 4,524 full text files; and a media collection of over 11,000 recordings, CDs, videos and other media.
Both in the library and on the campus network, students, faculty and staff have access to a combined online catalog of the 2.8 million volumes in the libraries of Wabash and the 26 other private colleges, universities, and seminaries of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Additional off-campus resources available electronically from the Library homepage (www.wabash.edu/library) encompass a wide range of specialized subject indexes and abstracts, full-text journal and information databases, and the OCLC international database of 50 million volumes in over 42,000 libraries around the world.
The Media Center provides the Wabash College community with technical assistance and systematic production support for the development of instructional, new-media projects. All forms of multiple media (text, images, audio, and video) are encouraged by the center with the industry-standard equipment, software and technical knowledge required for current delivery methods such as paper-based materials, the Internet, videocassette, compact disc, and DVD technologies. Please contact Jeana Rogers by telephone to arrange an appointment to discuss enrollment in the Element-K e-learning program or your specific needs for project or inquiry based learning. You may also drop by the Media Center, located in the basement of Lilly Library, for student assistance. The Media Center staff is dedicated to supporting teaching and learning at Wabash College by assisting the instructional design and educational technology needs of the faculty, staff, and students.
The Robert T. Ramsay, Jr. Archival Center, located on the library's lower level, contains the records of the College, including catalogs and yearbooks, student publications, fraternity files, and other related materials that document Wabash's history, along with several special collections.
Computers
More than 380 systems are dedicated for students. Two public labs with Dell Pentium 4 computers are open 15 hours a day, and a third public lab with a mixture of Dell Pentium 4 and Apple Macintosh G4 computers is open 24 hours a day. Departmental computer labs include a language lab; two calculus labs; a molecular modeling lab; five mobile wireless computing labs for chemistry, biology, and physics; art and music labs; and a social sciences lab. The chemistry department has a 100-node parallel computer. A gigabit ethernet network links all campus systems, and multiple T1 lines provide Internet access. Wireless networking access is available in the library, science buildings, and public areas of many academic buildings. Software includes Microsoft Office, Mathematica, JMP, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and PageMaker. Students have network file storage and email accounts that can be accessed anywhere, anytime through the Internet.
All College-owned dormitories, houses, and fraternities have a high-speed network connection for each student. Through these connections, students have access to the resources of the Internet and on-campus servers.
Telephones and Voice Mail
Every student has his own phone number and voice-mailbox that he holds through his four years at the College, no matter where he lives on the campus.
Housing
Students may live in one of four dormitories, College Hall, Martindale Hall, Wolcott Hall, and Morris Hall; an International House; Spanish, German, and French Language Houses; or one of 10 national fraternities, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Theta Delta Chi. Every college-owned study room has a phone, a video connection, and a network connection for each student.
Sports
Wabash competes at the NCAA Division III level in 11 varsity sports—football, cross country, soccer, golf, basketball, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, wrestling, tennis, swimming, and baseball—as a member of the North Coast Athletic Conference. In addition, students may participate in 23 intramural sports and four club sports. More than three-quarters of Wabash students participate in at least one intramural sport.
Extracurricular activities
Wabash students take part in a number of extracurricular activities, among them: student government; departmental clubs; political clubs; speech, music, and theater groups; various literary publications; special interest groups; and religious groups.
Automobiles
There are no restrictions regarding student automobiles.
Graduates
Approximately 75 percent of Wabash students enter graduate or professional school within five years of graduating from Wabash: 15 percent enter business programs; 12 percent enter law school; nine percent enter medical school; 17 percent enter other graduate schools; and 20 percent enter graduate arts and sciences programs. Among those entering the work force, 31 percent begin careers in business, while nine percent work in government, social service, or teaching.
Address
For additional information, write to:
Wabash College
Admissions Office
P.O. Box 352
Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352
Phone: 1-800-345-5385 or 765-361-6225
Fax: 765-361-6437
email: admissions@wabash.edu
website: http://www.wabash.edu
Accreditation:
North Central Association of College and Schools
Commission on Institutions of Higher Education
30 North La Salle Street Suite 2400
Chicago, Illinois 60602
800-621-7470