Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831. Its academic model combines undergraduate liberal arts education with graduate study and emphasizes close faculty-student engagement, interdisciplinary work, and original research. The university enrolls students in undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree programs and organizes its curriculum through divisions spanning the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences and mathematics.

The institution’s work centers on residential education and broad intellectual training, with a notable scale anchor in its campus setting and collections: Wesleyan maintains a 316-acre campus and a library system holding more than 1.5 million volumes. It offers more than 45 majors and supports study across fields ranging from film, music, and theater to neuroscience, economics, government, and environmental studies. Wesleyan also operates graduate programs, including doctoral study in selected disciplines, and it has a long-standing reputation for the arts, civic engagement, and student-led inquiry.