Washington University in St. Louis |
The Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL, Wash. U.) is a private research university 15 minutes west of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It includes schools of law, business, medicine, social work, art, architecture and engineering. In the 2004 US News
Rankings, its undergraduate program was ranked at number 9 in the nation. This was the first time it has been ranked among the
top 10 premier institutions in America. It has also gained recognition for its ability to get financial endowments.
Washington University was founded in 1853 by the Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfather of the Nobel
Prize laureate poet T. S. Eliot. There are occasional suggestions that
the school's name be changed to Eliot University to obviate confusion about its location: neither in Washington state nor Washington, DC.
The current Chancellor of the University is Dr. Mark S. Wrighton, an MIT-trained chemist who was formerly the provost at
MIT.
The school's sports teams are called the Bears. They participate in the NCAA's Division
III and in the University Athletic
Association. Some events during the Olympics of 1904 were held on its athletic field.
It also collaborates with a large St. Louis hospital, BJC HealthCare , sharing many of its
medical resources and staff.
Washington University hosted debates for the United States presidency in 1992 and 2000, and is scheduled to host a debate in
October 2004.
School of Law
The law school offers a full-time, day program beginning in August for J.D in a state-of-the-art building, Anheuser-Busch Hall
(opened in 1997). The building combines traditional architecture, a five-story open-stacks library, and the latest wireless and
other technologies. National Jurist ranked Washington University 4th among the "25 Most Wired Law Schools." The School of Law
offers eight joint-degree programs, including JD/MSW, JD/East Asian Studies, and JD/MBA programs. The law school offers 3
semesters of courses in the Spring, Summer, Fall and requires at least 87 hours of coursework for graduation. Tuition for the
2004-05 academic year is $32,590 divided into fall and spring payments. The average undergraduate grade point average is 3.6 and LSAT is 164 for the 2003-2004 school year.
Olin School of Business
The John M. Olin School of Business is located in the heart of the Midwest, historic city St. Louis. Olin has been ranked on
Top 30 US MBA by BusinessWeek for years. As one of the country's leading research-oriented business schools, Olin attracts top
faculty and students from all over the world.
School of Medicine
The School of Medicine is ranked the #2 medical school in country according to U.S. News & World Report behind Harvard University and ahead of Johns Hopkins University.
George Warren Brown School of Social Work
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work (commonly called GWB) is currently ranked #2 among Master of Social Work
(MSW) programs in the United States. GWB also offers a PhD in Social Work, in cooperation
with the Graduate School. The school is named for George Warren Brown, a St. Louis shoe manufacturing magnate and philanthropist.
The school was led by Dr. Shanti K. Khinduka from 1968 to 2003, who greatly expanded the school's international appeal, including
cooperative agreements with universities in Central Asia through the
Open Society Institute established by George Soros. It also has a center for Native American research.
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