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The largest undergraduate division at WashU, the COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES allows you to explore your interests in an intellectually dynamic and engaged community. As WashU’s home to the liberal arts and sciences, we offer more than 70 majors and minors across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Our students lead with curiosity, integrate their learning across disciplines, and develop diverse perspectives to navigate an ever-changing world with confidence.
You’ll learn from the best. Our faculty are leaders in their fields, routinely recognized for their innovative research and teaching excellence. Take a class with a Guggenheim Fellow, work in the lab of a NASA scientist, or collaborate with a Mellon Scholar on your own research.
No matter which academic path you choose, our curriculum will prepare you to build a life of meaning and impact.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
The Sam Fox School offers three primary degree paths in the COLLEGE OF ART: studio art, communication design, and fashion design. You can earn a degree with a deep studio focus or one with a broader liberal arts orientation.
Do you want to publish illustrated books? Create sculptural installations? Design for public health initiatives? Launch your own fashion line? Produce aerial drone videos? Make interactive websites? You can forge an educational path to do all this and more in the College of Art.
Studio is a place for collaboration and creative development. Our students are supportive of one another and engaged with social issues and the community. You’ll learn to make original visual work with technical and conceptual depth. Our expansive facilities will support your creative endeavors. You’ll work with faculty who are recognized in their fields, nationally and internationally.
Many of our graduates become prominent artists and designers. Others harness the creative thinking they learn while pursuing rewarding careers in business, law, medicine, publishing, and writing.
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Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
The COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE in the Sam Fox School offers a rigorous architecture program within a crossdisciplinary campus. You’ll graduate with the tools to design beautiful, innovative environments and become a more creative thinker.
We believe that you learn by doing. From your first year, you’ll work in the design studio with renowned faculty. You’ll explore a wide array of media and techniques using our spacious facilities. Your work will engage actual sites and tackle complex social, cultural, and environmental challenges.
Our alumni have become worldwide leaders in architecture. They’ve also made a mark in the fields of sustainability, development, landscape architecture, urban design, furniture design, interior design, and fashion design. They include Fulbright Prize winners, founders of major firms, and artist-urbanists selected for the Venice Biennale.
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OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL’s Values Based, Data Driven® program offers a collaborative learning environment. Your courses will provide a solid business foundation. But you’ll also learn to look beyond the bottom line to make thoughtful decisions to benefit business and society.
First-year entry into Olin means you’ll take business management courses starting your first semester. You’ll work closely with advisors to tailor your degree to your interests and your professional goals.
The theories, skills, and cases from your classes will prepare you for corporate, startup, and nonprofit environments. You’ll practice creative problem-solving by teaming with classmates and world-class faculty on real-world consulting projects.
Our program embraces a global mindset. We integrate academic and immersive experiences throughout the curriculum. You’ll be prepared to positively impact our rapidly changing world—a leadership advantage that will benefit you in any professional field.
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OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL
McKelvey School of Engineering
At the McKELVEY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, you can push the boundaries of what it means to learn. As a world leader in research and education, we’re solving some of the greatest challenges in the environment, health, and artificial intelligence.
Learning extends beyond the classroom. You can turn an idea into a product, company, or social movement with help from our facilities, competitions, and other design resources. Or you can join other students in building race cars, rockets, or robots; inspire young students to study STEM; and so much more!
When you graduate, you’ll join a global alumni network of more than 23,000 industry leaders, including NASA’s former chief astronaut, a Nobel laureate, and the cofounder of Block, Inc. (previously Square).
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The BEYOND BOUNDARIES PROGRAM is for students who want to address challenges by connecting diverse ideas as part of a collaborative team. In your first year, you’ll take interdisciplinary courses and a group seminar. You’ll learn from experts and peers engaged in combining knowledge from multiple backgrounds to address real-world problems. Alongside a cohort of like-minded peers, you’ll build skills to work across disciplines to make a difference in a complicated world. Graduates join a growing group of alumni applying this interdisciplinary mindset in their work.
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