Find your direction

Find your direction

Majors, interests and fitting it all together

What do you want to do?

That’s a big question. Plenty of people are probably asking you that these days. You’re likely asking yourself the same thing.

What do I want to do?

What do I not want to do?

Where should I go to start doing that thing I want to do?

And maybe: What if I don’t know what I want to do?

Find your interests

BIOLOGY

NURSING (BSN)

ENGLISH

CHEMISTRY

HISPANIC STUDIES

COMMUNICATIONS

VISUAL

NEUROSCIENCE

BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

DESIGN

ECONOMICS

PSYCHOLOGY

FILM & NEW MEDIA

EDUCATION

Enter the Compass Curriculum

One of the many great things about our college is that we give you the space— along with the resources and expert advice that are needed—to explore a world of ideas and possibilities. To ask yourself questions, and to meet people who can guide you. To take a familiar path, or try a new one, or travel several paths simultaneously.

Our Compass Curriculum gives you the flexibility to chart your own course to success. It’s light on requirements beyond the major, so you have the space to explore the topics that interest you.

At Wheaton, you have the benefit of personalized advising and professional mentorship from distinguished faculty who can help whether you already know where you want to go, or if you’re working on figuring that out.

Learn more about how the Compass Curriculum provides both the freedom and guidance to pursue the course of study that is just right for you.

Beyond the classroom

Learning involves action, when you go to Wheaton. Yes, there will be classes and seminars, deep reading and study sessions—that will completely fascinate you—but there also will be engrossing research in advanced laboratories, exciting experiments in the studio, opportunities to turn an idea (business, humanitarian, artistic) into reality, internships with people doing what you want to do, and immersing yourself in other cultures through study abroad.

Learning by doing is an integral part of the Compass Curriculum (which we may have mentioned before).

It’s built into the courses that you will take during your Wheaton career. And it’s an essential ingredient in many of our programs, like:

• WheaGo Global, which allows first-year students to kick start their college experience by studying abroad with one of our partner institutions.

• Wheaton Research Partnerships, which involves students in ongoing faculty scholarship, from examining antiquities to studying icy worlds in our outer solar system.

• Wheaton Innovation Centers, where students use cutting-edge technologies and a range of other resources to develop business ideas and non-profit projects for the greater good Altogether, we call it the Wheaton Edge

$1.2 million annual college commitment to student internships, research and travel

55% of the student body participated in an overseas study program in the last 10 years

Top 5 study abroad locations have included: Denmark, Greece, Italy, Spain and the UK.

It’s guaranteed

The Wheaton Edge includes guaranteed funding to support internships and other outsidethe-classroom learning that will give you the skills, connections and inspiration to forge a successful career. A few of the recent places where students have interned:

• American Airlines

• Christie’s

• Comedy Central

• Good Housekeeping

• HBO

• Johns Hopkins Hospital

• Merrill Lynch

• NASA

• New England Aquarium

• Smithsonian Institute

• Viacom

• The White House

This is the place

You will find an active, diverse and welcoming campus community. Our students pursue wide-ranging interests in more than 100 student-run organizations, including club and intramural sports; 26 varsity athletic teams (including one of the oldest artistic swimming teams in the world); a student-managed coffeehouse; and vibrant centers for community service, social justice, entrepreneurship and making. (And so much more!)

Varsity athletic teams

• Artistic swimming (W)

• Baseball (M)

• Basketball (W, M)

• Cross country (W, M)

• Fencing (W, M)

• Field hockey (W)

• Lacrosse (W, M)

• Soccer (W, M)

• Softball (W)

• Swimming and diving (W, M)

• Tennis (W, M)

• Track and field, indoor (W, M)

• Track and field, outdoor (W, M)

• Volleyball (W, M)

• Water polo (W, M)

12 things you can do at Wheaton

1. Sing a cappella (in one of five performance groups)

2. Learn to play steel drums

3. Play ultimate frisbee

4. Debate an historic or current event

5. Improvise (with our awardwinning improv team)

6. Write and speak poetry

7. Make art

8. Make dinner

9. Explore the outdoors

10. Dance

11. Join a student think-tank

12. Build a boat and race on Peacock Pond

Who will you find at Wheaton?

Wheaton’s academic community includes 1,700 students from more than 40 states and more than 40 countries and about 150 talented professors who teach (and learn), mentor and collaborate with students on research, inventions and other big ideas.

11:1 student-faculty ratio

15–20 average class size

99% of new students receive scholarships covering at least half of tuition

$27,883 was the average net cost (after aid) for all first-year students in 2023–2024

33% of first-year students saw a total bill (after aid) of less than $20,000 in 2023–2024

250+ scholarships and fellowships (Rhodes, Fulbright, Watson, etc.) won by students since 2000

What can you study at Wheaton?

African, African American, Diaspora Studies

Animal Behavior

Anthropology

Art History

Art (Visual)

Astronomy

Biochemistry

Bioinformatics

Biology

Business and Management

Chemistry

Classics Communications

Computer Science

Creative Arts Management

Creative Writing and Literature

Criminal Justice

Dance

Design

Early Childhood Education

Economics

Education

Elementary Education

Engineering

English

Environmental Science

Film and New Media Studies

Finance

French Studies

German Studies

Greek

Healthcare Management

Hispanic Studies

History

Human Resource Management

International Business

International Relations

Italian Studies

Journalism Studies

Latin

Legal Studies

Liberal Arts

Marketing

Mathematics

Mathematics and Computer Science

Music

Neuroscience

Nursing (BSN)

Optometry

Philosophy

Physics

Political Science

Pre-Dentistry

Pre-Law

Pre-Medicine

Pre-Occupational Therapy

Pre-Physical Therapy

Pre-Physician Assistant

Pre-Veterinary Psychology

Public Health

Public Administration

Religion

Russian Studies

Secondary Education Statistics

Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management

Sociology

Theatre

Transnational Cultural Studies

Women’s and Gender Studies

For a comprehensive list of all academic programs, and details on which programs are majors, minors, concentrations, and academic tracks, please visit our website.

A sampling of first jobs

• ACLU of Massachusetts

• Colgate-Palmolive

• Comedy Central

• General Dynamics

• Google

• JP Morgan Chase and Company

• MetLife

• Microsoft

• NBC Universal Inc.

• Oxford University Press

• Pfizer

• Rhode Island Attorney

• General’s Office

• Sotheby’s

Where will your degree take you?

Six months after graduation, 95% of Wheaton graduates report success.

• 73% are employed

• 15% are enrolled in graduate

• or professional school

• 3% are working internships

• 2% have accepted national fellowships (Fulbright, Watson, etc.)

• 2% are engaged in volunteer and national service (AmeriCorps, City Year, etc.)

(Data based on a knowledge rate of 65 percent for the classes of 2014–2022)

While you’re figuring out the answers to some big questions, here are a few easy answers about Wheaton...

Where is Wheaton College?

Founded in 1834

Located in Norton, Massachusetts, Wheaton College has a welcoming and walkable campus with a traditional New England feel (trees that change with the season, an active campus green known as The Dimple, and a mix of classic brick buildings and modern architecture).

95% students live on campus

19 residential halls, including a brand new hall with a focus on mind and body wellness

17 student-run theme houses

#45 Best Value Liberal Arts College, U.S. News & World Report, 2024

#21 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges, Princeton Review’s The Best 388 Colleges: 2023 Edition

Top Ten for Gender Equality, Times Higher Education, 2022

Top Producing Fulbright Institution, U.S. Department of State, 2024

Top 10 Safest City In The United States (Norton), SafeWise Report

Did you know?

There are actually two, unaffiliated Wheaton Colleges, one in Massachusetts and one in Illinois. Find our Wheaton (secular, New England campus, undergraduate studies) at wheatoncollege.edu

Where can you learn more?

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