Student-Faculty Ratio
8:1
Full-Time Student Population
2,186
Part-Time Student Population
138
Full-Time Instructional Faculty
316
Part-Time Instructional Faculty
123
Faculty with Terminal Degree
96%
Average Faculty Salary
$106,671
Full-Time Retention Rate
96%
Programs/Majors Offered
48
Academic/Career Counseling?
Yes
Class Sizes
- Fewer than 20 students: 68%
- 20 to 49 students: 31%
- 50 or more students: 1%
Instructional Programs
Occupational:
NoAcademic:
YesContinuing Professional:
NoRecreational/Avocational:
NoAdult Basic Remedial:
NoSecondary (High School):
NoSpecial Credit Opportunities
Advanced Placement (AP) Credits:
YesDual Credit:
YesLife Experience Credits:
NoDegrees Awarded
Bachelor's degree
Most Popular Majors
- Economics and Econometrics: 6%
- English Language Studies: 4%
- Political Science and Government, General: 5%
- Psychology: 4%
Graduation Requirements
- Arts/fine arts
- English (including composition)
- Foreign languages
- History
- Humanities
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Sciences (biological or physical)
- Social science
- Writing program
Special Study Options
- Study abroad
- Teacher certification (below the postsecondary level)
Other Academic Offerings
- Cross-registration
- Double major
- Dual enrollment
- Exchange student program (domestic)
- Honors program
- Independent study
- Internships
- Student-designed major
Best Places to Study
- By the lake
- Dorm living rooms
- The Hoop
- One of the libraries
- Wang Campus Center
Tips to Succeed
- Don't give in to the pressure of doing recruiting or internships if you don't want to-not everyone is made for investment banking or building houses in third-world countries.
- Don't kill yourself over your studies or grades. Do your work, but don't despair if you don't get it done.
- Don't take on too many activities right away-make sure you can handle the normal workload.
- Enjoy yourself!
- Everything really will be all right, but you're going to have to adjust your idea of what "all right" is.
- Get enough sleep.
- Get off campus when you can-make off-campus friends, be part of some other scene or community.
- Get to know your professors.
Did You Know?
- Wellesley has a series of distribution requirements for students to fulfill before graduation. Students choose which courses they desire to take in the mandated categories, including math, science, social studies, and literature.
- Wellesley is an undergraduate institution, and professors teach all classes (though lab instructors conduct some labs).
- Wellesley has produced more female directors of Fortune 500 companies than any other college in the country.
- Among those who took the first Massachusetts Teachers Test, 100 percent of Wellesley graduates passed. Wellesley is the only undergraduate institution to achieve this.
- According to Wellesley's Web site, women who graduate from all-female colleges are more than twice as likely as their counterparts in coed institutions to end up in a top-level position, in either a community organization or in the workplace.