Edwin DayOverview
Washington University in St. Louis is a private institution that was founded in 1853. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 7,653 (fall 2020), its setting is city, and the campus size is 169 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar.
Washington University in St. Louis is located in a city that offers professional sports in baseball and hockey in addition to a wide range of options for dining and entertainment. Freshmen are required to live on campus in one of the residence houses. After freshman year, students can choose to live in suite-style housing, on-campus apartments, fraternity houses or off-campus apartments and homes. Approximately 35 percent of students are affiliated with Greek life at Wash U.
Acceptance Rate: ~16%
Notable Rankings (US News)
- Overall: #14
- Engineering: #45
- Business: #14
- Computer Science: #37
What Students Say...
The Good
- "When I viewed the campus I was in awe! So underhyped and love the school soo much ! The students there were so beyond nice and incredible! Amazing school and faculty."
- "The overall academics and great balance of student life they offer is amazing. There's a lot of flexibility within a student's schedule itself.”
- “WashU is full of really smart, really engaging, and really driven people. Every day I was challenged by my classmates, friends, and peers to be my very best academically, but also professionally, and socially. My main problem with the school is that I don't think it has a strong enough relationship with Saint Louis. I wish it invested more in ways to retain students within the region instead of letting them slip away to take what they learned at WashU to other cities.”
- “I've been having a great experience at WashU. I'm currently a premed student majoring in Genomics and Computational Biology, and I have found all my professors and advisors to be incredibly supportive and helpful. The food quality has dropped since my freshman year, but it's still very delicious. I would attend WashU again if I had to do it all over again.”
The Not-So-Good
- "Faculty isn't the best in terms of building a peer support learning environment. You will also get used to professors delaying responding to your email or even not responding at all. They seem to care about you in class but then they are hard to reach after class.”
- “WashU is a decent school if the only thing you care about is academics and can't get into any other school of the same caliber. The campus and food are nice but are overshadowed by the fact that as a research institution, teachers want to research and not teach for the most part and the school is very expensive. If you have any interest in a party scene, WashU is not the school for you. As a member of greek life on campus I can say the school is making it harder to have and go to parties than it was as a non greek-life freshman student. I'm not sure why WashU has an A- rating on Niche for party scene, I honestly cannot think of a school with a worse party scene. People I am familiar with at small liberal arts colleges have a much larger party scene than WashU, so if this is any factor in where you apply, don't come here as you will be very disappointed.”
- “Why are the students here so pretentious? We aren't in an Ivy but everyone acts like students should prefer to come here over anywhere else. It was the right fit for me but I find the population very annoying. The classes are challenging but there is not much variety in available courses.”
Notable Alumni
- Dave Peacock, CEO of Anheuser Busch
- Peter Sarsgaard, Actor
- Wade Miquelon, CFO of Walgreens
Student Life in Pics
