WashU 2024 2025
Amplify your future.
At WashU, we celebrate your drive and help you go even further. You’ll learn from faculty who are leaders in their fields. But we believe there’s more to your college experience than top-notch academics. We want to learn about you—and from you. Together, we help each other succeed and work toward a brighter future.
Academics
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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
As WashU’s home to the liberal arts, we offer programs in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Our students embrace new viewpoints, discover solutions, and acquire skills for flexible career paths. Be a part of our expansive and inclusive academic community.
OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL
Become the leader you want to be. First-year entry means you are fully immersed in business principles from day one, learning in a flexible, collaborative environment both in the classroom and through real-world projects.
SAM FOX SCHOOL OF DESIGN & VISUAL ARTS
Join a close-knit community of ambitious, engaged students working to create positive change through architecture, art, and design.
MCKELVEY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
Students can explore various interests and academic paths in engineering and receive a strong foundation in problem solving and teamwork. Our students are working to address the greatest challenges in the world today, and they are prepared for careers in medicine, technology, business, and more.
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
This unique interdisciplinary program draws on the strength and interconnectedness of the university’s seven schools to help talented, self-motivated students become creative problem solvers and insightful scholars.
Meet our students.
1,828
First-year students ENROLLED IN 2023
1,192
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WashU’s 7,576 undergraduates come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and 58 countries.
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681 UNDERGRADUATES ENROLLED IN 2023
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How WashU makes it work for you financially.
Did you know that WashU’s average financial assistance award is $65,000?
That means your aid award could be greater than the cost of our tuition.
All you need to do is apply for financial assistance, and we’ll consider you for all types of need-based aid. We’ll also waive your application fee.
We meet 100% of demonstrated need for all admitted students.
We provide no-loan awards for all undergraduate students. This means we replace loans with additional university grants and scholarships in all financial assistance awards.
We don’t consider home equity when determining financial assistance awards.
The WashU Pledge covers the cost of tuition, fees, housing, and food for all four years for qualifying students from Missouri and southern Illinois.
We have a need-blind admission policy for all first-year applicants who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents—meaning we do not consider your ability to pay when making admission decisions.
These initiatives are part of our commitment to ensuring that all admitted students can obtain a world-class WashU education without going into debt.
Beyond the
College is about more than academics. Our clubs and student-run organizations offer the chance to meet like-minded peers and build lifelong friendships.
SOME WASHU TRADITIONS
All Student Theatre
Black Anthology
Carnaval
Cheap Lunch
Convocation
Diwali
Lunar New Year Festival
Moonlight Breakfast
FOLLOW US
450+
STUDENT-RUN CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS
60%
OF WASHU STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE, CONTRIBUTING IDEAS AND LEADERSHIP TO THEIR EFFORTS
Relay For Life
Res College Olympics
Meet St. Louis
Thurtene Carnival
Underpass Painting
Vertigo
We Sing for Ice Cream WILD
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Career readiness
Our Center for Career Engagement is an integrated hub, collaborating with campus partners, faculty, and administrators across the university. As part of our holistic approach, the Center for Career Engagement connects with students from Day 1 and moves with them throughout their time at WashU—inside the classroom and beyond!
n Our programs support self-exploration. You’ll have opportunities to see how your interests and skills fuel the steps to build your career path.
n As a WashU student—and later as an alum— you’ll join a lifelong, global community who will support you.
n Our career coaches will really get to know you. They’ll guide you as you develop and hone the skills that are of real interest to employers.
n You’ll experience different careers and industries through internships and travel opportunities to cities across the country.
Visit WashU
To Apply Submit your application at commonapp.org or coalitionapp.org Contact Us Undergraduate Admissions admissions.wustl.edu 800.638.0700 or 314.935.6000 Student Financial Services financialaid.wustl.edu 888.547.6670 or 314.935.5900 Get a glimpse of all we have to offer, from our beautiful campus to our incredible community of faculty and peers, with a campus visit. And our virtual experiences let you see why WashU stands out, right from the comfort of your own home. To Visit Go to visit.wustl.edu or call 800.638.0700 or 314.935.6000
Undergraduate Admissions
MSC 1089-105-05
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Washington University encourages and gives full consideration to all applicants for admission, financial assistance, and employment. The university does not discriminate in access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, or genetic information. Applicants with a prior criminal history will not be automatically disqualified from consideration for admission. Inquiries about compliance should be addressed to the Vice Chancellor for Human Resources and Institutional Equity, Washington University, MSC 1190-853-03, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130.
DESIGN: Laura Burns, BFA87 | ILLUSTRATION: Dan Zettwoch, BFA99, Adjunct Lecturer