Wheaton College is a Christian liberal arts college known for...

• A rigorous liberal arts curriculum
• High academic standards
• A gifted faculty who both teach and mentor
• A vibrant commitment to evangelical Protestant Christian faith
• Bringing Christian perspectives to bear on all areas of learning
• The high caliber of its students
• The success of its alumni in leadership roles worldwide

Wheaton College exists to help build the church and improve society worldwide by promoting the development of whole and effective Christians through excellent programs in Christian higher education. This mission expresses our commitment to do all things - “For Christ and His Kingdom.”
- Wheaton College Mission Statement

What others say about Wheaton College

“Through a remarkable combination of intellectual stimulation and tenacious opposition to any departure from evangelical faith or practice, the College creates discussion as intense as any to be found on American campuses, and as consistently directed to ultimate issues.”
- A Carnegie Study of the Future of Liberal Arts Colleges

“At Wheaton, classes are small, the professors actually teach, and the curriculum is informed with solid and well-articulated values.”
- The National Review College Guide: America's Top (50) Liberal Arts Schools

“Indeed, the fusion of excellent academics and devotion to faith at Wheaton College prepares its students to do big things, ‘For Christ and His Kingdom.’”
- The Insider's Guide to the Colleges

Top Rankings - In the 2008 edition U.S. News & World Report rankings, Wheaton College finished 59th out of 212 National Liberal Arts Colleges. (See www.usnews.com)

According to The Washington Monthly's 2007 Annual College Guide, Wheaton College is ranked 3rd on the list of Top Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation. This ranking is based on the social mobility and service of students, and the research done at each school.

Kiplinger's rates Wheaton 12th for Best Values in Private Colleges. Wheaton ranked 1st for (lowest) total cost and 9th for (lowest) cost after need-based aid. Kiplinger's rankings measure academic quality and affordability, with quality accounting for two-thirds of the total.

Colleges that Change Lives included Wheaton on this select list of 40 schools. Author Loren Pope said, “Wheaton is often called the Harvard of the evangelicals, but that moniker does not do it justice because it is head, shoulders, and heart above Harvard in its concern with good moral compasses and strong value systems, as well as in the percentage of future Ph.D.s it has turned out.”

Peterson's says of Wheaton, “The academic curriculum combines with the extensive cocurriculum of artistic, athletic, religious, service, and social activities to achieve a lively interaction of Christian faith, learning, and living.”

Majors

Special Programs

• Arts in London
• HoneyRock (Northwoods Campus, Wisconsin)
• HNGR - Human Needs and Global Resources Program (developing countries)
• International Improvisation Institute (Black Hills Campus, South Dakota)
• International Study Semester
• May in Asia
• Music and Ministry in the Great Cities of Europe
• Pre-health Professions
• Pre-law Program
• ROTC
• Science Station (Black Hills Campus, South Dakota)
• Science Teacher Education
• Scriptorium Center (Herefordshire, England)
• Summer study in Spain and Latin America
• Urban Studies
• Wheaton in Chicago
• Wheaton in England
• Wheaton in France
• Wheaton in Germany
• Wheaton in the Holy Lands
• Wheaton in Washington, D.C.

Wheaton's faculty is productive, interactive and creative.

• Full-time: 193, Part-time: 102
• Student/faculty ratio: 12:1
• Over a third graduated from the top 25 graduate schools as designated in U.S. News and World Report
• 10% graduated Phi Beta Kappa

At Wheaton, students see themselves as part of something bigger

Student Activities

• Student Government
• Leadership development opportunities
• College Union (campus wide events, concerts, films, coffee-house events)
• The Record (weekly student newspaper)
• The literary magazine Kodon
• Tower yearbook
• Gospel choir
• Intercollegiate speech and debate competition
• Theater productions
• Multicultural and international groups
• Departmental and pre-professional study groups (including Pre-Law and Pre-Med)
• Orientation, homecoming and family weekend planning committees

Conservatory Music Organizations

• Concert Choir
• Men's Glee Club
• Symphonic Band
• Symphony Orchestra
• Jazz Ensemble
• Opera Music Theater
• Percussion Ensemble
• Women's Chorale

Ministry/Service Opportunities

• Christian Service Council (22 local ministries); World Christian Fellowship
• Missions in Focus
• Student Missionary Project
• Breakaway Ministries
• Global Urban Perspectives
• Youth Hostel Ministry
• Small Group Discipleship Program
• Underclass Residence Hall Community Life Councils

Resources Available

• Computing labs with networked Windows and Macintosh workstations, printers, Internet access in Buswell Library, the Billy Graham Center and five residence halls
• Residence Hall Network (ResNet) allows students to connect personal computers to the campus network
• Libraries with 1,024,646 items and 2,300 current periodical titles
• The Marion E. Wade Center collections of the works of C. S. Lewis and six other British authors
• Wheaton College Special Collections and Archives
• Billy Graham Center Museum and Archives
• WETN-FM 88.1 radio station
• TV and audio production studios
• Music library
• Arena Theater
• Community School of the Arts
• Writing Center
• Speech Center
• Language laboratory
• Applied Health Science laboratory
• Sports and Recreation Center
• 35-meter indoor pool
• Edman Memorial Chapel
• Pierce Memorial Chapel
• Barrows Auditorium
• Todd M. Beamer Student Center
• Observatory

Career and Student Services

• Career exploration
• Internship and job search services
• Personal and spiritual counseling
• Cultural programs

On Wheaton's playing fields, student-athletes become champions

• Wheaton offers men and women intercollegiate participation in 22 different sports as a member of the non-scholarship NCAA Division III.
• Wheaton teams have more than 40 titles over the past six years in 11 different sports. More than 100 students have earned All-American recognition and more than 35 have been recognized as Academic All-Americans.
• Wheaton is a charter member of the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW). CCIW schools have accounted for 34 NCAA national championships, including for Wheaton College a basketball title, a women's soccer championship and two men's soccer titles.
• The women's soccer team won the 2004 and 2006 NCAA Division III Championships. The 2004 team became the first female program from both Wheaton and the CCIW to win a Division III title. Women's soccer has won every CCIW Championship since 1995, made three NCAA Final Four appearances (in 2001, 2004 and 2006) and has been ranked first in the Division III poll. Head coach Pete Felske was selected as the national "Coach of the Year" in 2004 and 2006.
• The Wheaton football team has been ranked in Division III's Top 25 for the past eight years. Wheaton has won five of the last seven CCIW championships with titles in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 with a school-record three-straight postseason appearances (2002, 2003, and 2004 and another in 2006). More than 95% of Wheaton's football players graduate with their class.

Intercollegiate Sports

Member of NCAA, Division III, College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin. About 15% of students participate in intercollegiate sports.

Men

Baseball
Basketball
Cross-country
Football
Golf
Indoor & Outdoor Track
Soccer
Swimming
Tennis
Wrestling

Women

Basketball
Cross country
Golf
Indoor & Outdoor Track
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Volleyball
Water Polo

Club Sports

Men

Ice Hockey
Lacrosse
Volleyball
Soccer

Women

Lacrosse
Cheerleading

Co-ed

Crew
Tae Kwon Do

40% of students participate in intramural sports.

Wheaton College students leave prepared for the “real world”

Placement six months after graduation:

69% employed
24% graduate school
2% military
6% other

1,500 business leaders, including:

Michael Bontrager '82, founder, Chatham Financial Corporation
Donald Soderquist '55, former senior vice chairman, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
William Pollard '60, former chairman and CEO of The ServiceMaster Co.
Bonnie Pruett Wurzbacher '77, senior vice-president, Coca-Cola
Robert W. Lane '72, chairman and CEO, John Deere & Co.
Mark Snyder '82, executive vice president, State Street Global Markets; Chair, Foreign Exchange Committee, NYSE

250 government & foreign service professionals, including:

J. Dennis Hastert '64, Illinois Congressman, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Dan Coats '65, former Senator and U.S. Ambassador, Germany
Michael Gerson '86, former policy adviser and former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush
Joan Humphrey Lefkow '65, federal judge, U.S. District Court (Ill.)

1,000 in medicine, including:

Kathy Albain '74, professor of medicine, Loyola University, Chicago
August M. Watanabe '63, vice president, Eli Lilly & Company, cardiovascular research
Wesley White '70, division director, Lutheran General, Chicago
David Sugarbaker '75, division chief, Harvard Medical School
William C. Wood '62, professor and chairman of surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Arthur Ammann '58, president of Global Strategies for HIV Prevention

30 college presidents or provosts, including:

Nathan O. Hatch '68, president, Wake Forest University
R. Judson Carlberg '62, president, Gordon College
Jeanette Hsieh, '66, interim president, Trinity International University
Niel Nielson '76 president, Covenant College

3,000+ in ministry and evangelism worldwide, including:

Billy Graham '43, evangelist
Elisabeth Fletcher Isais '46, missionary and journalist
Elizabeth Elliot '48, missionary and writer
Gary Chapman '60, author and pastor, Calvary Baptist Church
Louis L. Carter, Jr. '61, surgeon, missionary and medical teacher
John Piper '68, author and pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Church
John Ortberg, '79, author and pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
Seth Barnes, '80, executive director, Adventures in Missions
Larry Reed, '80, chief executive officer, Opportunity International Network
Ruth Haley Barton '81, author and founder, The Transforming Center
Jasper Bacon '82, founder, In His Steps Ministries
Rob Bell, '92, founding pastor, Mars Hill Bible Church

550 in the arts, including:

Luci Shaw '53, poet/author
John Nelson '63, music director, L'Ensemble Orchestra de Paris
Jerry Blackstone '74, professor of conducting, University of Michigan School of Music
Wendy White Aftab '75, principal artist, Metropolitan Opera
David Clydesdale '75, freelance composer
Sylvia McNair '78, Grammy award winning soprano

In short

Founded:

1860

Type:

Private, independent, non-profit, coeducational, residential, interdenominational Christian liberal arts college

Degrees offered:

B.A., B.S., B.Mus., B.Mus.Ed.
M.A., M.A.T.
Ph.D. in Biblical and Theological Studies, Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology

Accreditation and Certifications:

Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Assoc. of Colleges and Schools (NCACS)
National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Chemical Society Certified (Chemistry Program)

Calendar system:

Two 16-week semesters
Two 4-week summer sessions

Enrollment:

Approximately 2,400 undergraduates, 500 graduate students

Student origins:

50 states
48 countries
18.6% multicultural students
32 church denominations
79% are from outside Illinois

Admissions:

Known for the quality of its academic offerings, Wheaton College continues to enroll strong, distinctively Christian students. We look at the whole student to assess the quality of the application. This includes evaluating the following:

Quality of course selection
Performance in high school/college
Rank in class
ACT and/or SAT
Essays
Recommendations
Extracurricular activities
Christian commitment (necessary for admission)

Important Dates

Early action deadline: November 1, with notification by December 31
Regular Action deadline: January 10, with notification by April 1
Conservatory deadline: January 10, with notification by April 1
Fall Transfer deadline: March 1
Spring Transfer deadline: October 1

Freshman (Class of 2011) Profile:

583 enrolled, including 30 National Merit Finalists
Average high school GPA, 3.7 (unweighted scale)
56% graduated in top 10% of their class 88% graduated in the top 25%
77% are expected to graduate in four years, 88% will graduate in five
108 are children of alumni
96% will return for their sophomore year
They will maintain a 3.4 GPA over the next four years
Middle 50% scored between 1240 and 1410 on the Critical Reasoning and Math portions of the SAT, between 27 and 31 on the ACT

Student expenses (2007-2008):

Undergraduate: $30,982 (Tuition $23,730, plus room and board $7,252)
Graduate: $580 per credit hour, ($760 for Psy.D. students, $706 for Ph.D. students)
See www.wheaton.edu/finaid/ for more information.

Scholarships, Grants and Loans:

$10 million in scholarships and grants is awarded annually to students.
Approximately 63% of undergraduate students receive need-based and non-need-based scholarships and grants. These are Perkins, Stafford Loans, and alternative loans and school loans, ranging from $100 to $5,500.
About 56% of undergraduates are offered loans, and about 45% accept.
Music, ROTC, and multicultural student scholarships are available
Federal Pell grants, FSEOG, state, and institutional grants and scholarships are available. Please contact the Financial Aid Office at www.wheaton.edu/finaid for information about scholarships, grants, loans, Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and Wheaton College Financial Aid.

Housing:

Wheaton College is intentionally residential for undergraduates. Approximately 88% of students live on campus. Two underclass residence halls house first and second year students. Second, third, and fourth year students may live in one of two upperclass residence halls. Third and fourth year students may apply to live in one of 15 college owned apartments or 16 houses. Undergraduates may live off campus if living with parents or spouse, or through an off-campus selection process in the spring. Limited graduate housing is available to single students and international married students.

A better investment is hard to find

Wheaton College consistently ranks in the Second Tier of National Liberal Arts Colleges (top 80) in U.S. News and World Report's annual listing of Best Colleges.

The 2007 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine ranked Wheaton College 16th in a list of “100 Best Values in Private Colleges.” Putting itself “in the shoes of parents who want excellence for their children but who also care how much it costs,” the magazine looked for “gems among the nation's 1,600 private schools.”

The Best Buys in College Education author Edward Fiske wrote, “when the high quality of its educational program is factored in, Wheaton's costs place it at the top end of college bargains.”

It's easy to reach us for more information

On-line:

Our website is www.wheaton.edu

By Telephone:

(area code 630)

In Person:

501 College Avenue, Wheaton, IL 60187-5593

Wheaton College is located in suburban Wheaton, a residential community 25 miles west of downtown Chicago, with easy access to the city, and O'Hare and Midway International Airports.

Wheaton College complies with federal and state requirements for non-discrimination on the basis of handicap, sex, race, color, national or ethnic origin in admission and access to its programs and activities.

All information and facts in this annual profile were believed to be accurate and current at the time of publication.