Founded
1832 (About The Founding)

Type
Private, independent, four year liberal arts college for men, granting Bachelor of Arts degree.

Location
Crawfordsville, Indiana, a community of 14,000 located 45 miles northwest of Indianapolis and 150 miles southeast of Chicago.

Endowment
As of June 30, 2009, the value of Wabash's endowment was $250 million, which places Wabash among the highest colleges in the nation in per-student endowment.

Financial Aid
Approximately 90 percent of students receive some form of student aid.

Tuition and Fees
For the 2000-2010 academic year, tuition is $29,100. Room is $3,500. Meals: $4600 (21 weekly meals), $4,100 (15 meals), $3,710 (10 meals). Activities fee is $450.$200 student health center fee.

Campus
The 60-acre wooded campus contains 25 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 Teacher Education Department. 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. The College dedicated the newly expanded and renovated Fine Arts Center in 1993. The Detchon Center for Modern Languages and International Studies, housed in an expanded and renovated campus landmark built in 1893, is a state-of-the-art facility. During the Campaign for Leadership, Wabash built Hays Hall, the $30 million home of the biology and chemistry departments; renovated Goodrich Hall, which is home to the mathematics and physics departments; built a $2 million Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies; and built the $20 million Allen Athletics and Recreation Center.

Students
Wabash's 900 male students come from 34 states and about two dozen foreign countries. Seventy-four percent are from Indiana. Test scores range from the middle 50 percent of entering freshmen: SAT verbal 530-650, SAT math 550-660. Each year, approximately 250 freshmen students enroll.

Faculty
More than 95 percent of the 85 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 or lower.

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, Rhetoric, Spanish, 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 Teach Education Program.

Library Collections And Services
Lilly Library, built in 1959, was renovated and expanded in 1992. Resources from the Goodrich Chemistry Library were integrated into Lilly in the summer of 2000. The holdings include more than 434,460 book and periodical bound volumes; 5,530 current periodical titles; and a media collection of over 11,151 recordings, CD's, videos and other media.

Both in the library and on the campus network students have access to CD-Rom periodical indexes and the online catalog of the 2.7 million volumes of Wabash and the 24 other private colleges and seminaries that are part of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Additional off-campus resources available electronically from the Library web site (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 37.5 million volumes in over 30,000 libraries around the world.

The Media Center located on the library lower level has individual and group viewing and listening facilities for its collection of videos, DVD's, laserdiscs, cassette tapes, CDs, recordings and CD-Roms.

In addition, computers are available for exploring multi-media presentations, digital and analog video editing, creating computer graphics, slide scanning and CD-ROM and DVD production. Software programs available includes Adobe Creative Suite and Final Cut Pro. Equipment available includes a laminator, transparency makers, slide projectors, digital video and still cameras, digital editing computers, 16mm movie projectors, and tape recorders. Color printing is also available in up to 11"x17" paper size

The visually impaired can use a networked computer with a 21" monitor and the following programs: OSCAR scanning, VISTA for text enlargement and VERT for converting text to voice.

Robert T. Ramsay, Jr. Archival Center, located in the library 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 350 systems are available to students in various public and classroom labs. The College has campus-wide wireless service. The Chemistry Department has a 64 node Beowulf parallel processor system. A next generation Compaq UNIX server supports IMAP e-mail that can be accessed anywhere, anytime through the web.

Through these connections, students have access to the resources of the Internet and to on-campus servers.

Telephones and Voice Mail
Every student has his own phone number and voice-mailbox which he holds through his four years at the College, no matter where he lives on the campus.

Housing
Students may live in one of five residence halls: Martindale Hall, Wolcott Hall, Morris Hall, Cole Hall and College Hall; one of  nine national fraternities: Beta Theta Pi, 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 room has a phone, a video connection, and a network connection for each student. Many students also choose to rent near-campus apartments from the College.

Sports
Wabash competes at the NCAA Division III level in ten varsity sports--baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, trackand field, swimming, and wrestling-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 and over 40 percent of students are varsity athletes.

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; 10 percent enter law school; 9 percent enter medical school; and 20 percent enter graduate arts and sciences programs. Among those entering the work force, 31 percent begin careers in business, while 9 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