Wabash College: Career Services - Why Recruit At Wabash College?

Why Recruit At Wabash College?

Schroeder Center for Career Development

Wabash College educates men to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely.

Founded in 1832, Wabash College is a selective liberal arts institution for men enrolling approximately 900 students from across the U.S. and two dozen foreign countries. Each year, Wabash sets national benchmarks in the National Survey of Student Engagement. Our mission is excellence in teaching and learning within a community built on close and caring relationships among students, faculty, and staff. Wabash offers a superior education, fostering 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 challenges its students to appreciate the changing nature of the global society and prepares them for the responsibilities of leadership and service in it. Wabash provides for its students an 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 analytical skills, but also sensitivity to values, and judgment and compassion required of citizens living in a difficult and uncertain world.

Intensive Academic Preparation

Wabash offers 21 majors:

Art
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Classics
Economics
English
French
German
Greek
History
Latin
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Religion
Rhetoric
Spanish
Theater

Students may minor in all of the above areas, plus Computer Science, Asian Studies, and Chinese. Areas of Concentration include International Studies, Multicultural American Studies, Teacher Education, and a Business Sequence. Students complete both a major and minor, or double major. Students are taught by professors (98% PhD), not teaching assistants; average class size is 13. To graduate, seniors must successfully pass oral and written comprehensive examinations in their major and minor fields

Experiential Learning and Global Focus

50% of Wabash students study overseas through study abroad semesters and/or cultural/academic immersion trips, including an interdisciplinary summer program in Ecuador.
70% of our students complete one or more off-campus internships. Students also complete on-campus summer research projects in conjunction with professors.
Students participate in learning/working programs including a Business Immersion Program, Marketing Immersion Program, and extern programs in New York City and Washington DC.
Our students are involved: 40% compete in intercollegiate athletics, 80% in intramurals, 90% in campus organizations.

Outcomes

One out of every eight of our graduates holds the title of President or CEO
13% of our graduates go directly into law school
14% go directly into medical school/health care programs
23% go directly into other graduate and professional programs
Within 5 years of graduation, 80% of our students pursue graduate education