Wabash College

Since 1832, we’ve educated countless lawyers, doctors, artists, scientists, and CEOs. Graduated Rhodes Scholars and Academic All-Americans. And continually turned out men of character: men who challenge one another to do great things (for themselves, for Wabash, and for the world).

Wabash educates men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely. Founded in 1832, Wabash College is an independent, liberal arts college for men with an enrollment of 900 students. Its mission is excellence in teaching and learning within a community built on close and caring relationships among students, faculty, and staff.

Wabash offers qualified young men a superior education, fostering, in particular, independent intellectual inquiry, critical thought, and clear written and oral expression. The College educates its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts, while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines.

Wabash emphasizes our manifold, but shared cultural heritage. Our students come from diverse economic, social, and cultural backgrounds; the College helps these students engage these differences and live humanely with them. Wabash also challenges its students to appreciate the changing nature of the global society and prepares them for the responsibilities of leadership and service in it.

The College carries out its mission in a residential setting in which students take personal and group responsibility for their actions. Wabash provides for its students an unusually informal, egalitarian, and participatory environment which encourages young men to adopt a life of intellectual and creative growth, self-awareness, and physical activity. The College seeks to cultivate qualities of character and leadership in students by developing not only their analytic skills, but also sensitivity to values, and judgment and compassion required of citizens living in a difficult and uncertain world. We expect a Wabash education to bring joy in the life of the mind, to reveal the pleasures in the details of common experience, and to affirm the necessity for and rewards in helping others.

Wabash college offers qualified young men a superior education, fostering, in particular, independent intellectual inquiry, critical thought, and clear written and oral expression. The College educates its students broadly in the traditional curriculum of the liberal arts, while also requiring them to pursue concentrated study in one or more disciplines.

Wabash provides for its students an unusually informal, egalitarian, and participatory environment in order to cultivate qualities of character and leadership in students by developing not only their analytic skills, but also sensitivity to values, and judgment and compassion required of citizens living in a difficult and uncertain world. We expect a Wabash education to bring joy in the life of the mind, to reveal the pleasures in the details of common experience, and to affirm the necessity for and rewards in helping others.

The curriculum at Wabash allows maximum flexibility while providing the broad base of understanding that is the core of the liberal arts concept. Wabash offers 39 majors and minors, with minors exclusively in Asian Studies, Black Studies, Business, Computer Science, Electronic Music, Film & Digital Media, Gender Studies, Global Health, Multicultural American Studies, and Neuroscience, dual degree programs in Engineering and Accounting, and pre-professional programs in law and medicine.

Wabash's Liberal Arts Plus initiative is in its third year focusing on Global Health, Democracy & Public Discourse, the Center for Innovation, Business, & Entrepreneurship, and Digital Arts & Human Values. To graduate, Wabash students must complete 34 courses, including the Freshman Tutorial and Enduring Questions; demonstrate proficiency in English composition and in a foreign language; and pass the senior oral and written comprehensive examinations.

The very best way to learn about Wabash is to visit campus, attend a class, meet with faculty and coaches, spend the night, and watch a game. You can take part in a Visit Day program or we'll customize a visit just for you. You can't afford not to look at Wabash College. The extraordinary generosity of Wabash alumni and friends enables us to maintain outstanding merit scholarships and a robust need-based aid program. The Wabash Promise is our commitment to making Wabash affordable for all students who desire to be Wabash Men.

Wabash has one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. But you have to experience what goes on here to fully appreciate the breadth and depth of our student-centered culture, and understand the high expectations of our Gentleman's Rule.

The Schroeder Center for Career Development helps students to identify, develop, and experience civic and career leadership before they graduate. Through professional immersion trips and vibrant internships, students explore opportunities to reach individual career goals of employment, graduate school, or service opportunities. Whatever he can dream, we offer individualized programs and resources to help Wabash men get there.

Wabash college was founded on NOVEMBER 21, 1832. The founders were all young and, while full of faith and energy, not one of them had any financial means. A meeting was held in the home of James Thomson, who was considered the motivating force for the idea of a college here. All who attended the meeting agreed that if the Wabash Country, as this section of Indiana was known, was to have enough preachers and teachers, it would need to educate them from among the boys of this area.

Wabash college has always been independent and non-sectarian, although its founders and Caleb Mills were Presbyterian ministers. The school was patterned after the conservative liberal arts colleges of New England, with their high standards. Caleb Mills declared the aims of the college to be learning, virtue, and service.