Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college offering an education that fosters creative, independent, and experimental work. Ideally situated on a hill overlooking the Connecticut River, Wesleyan's campus is famously beautiful and (in more ways than one) enviably green. Golden autumn light reveals a New England liberal arts college that is far from traditional. Today Wesleyan offers instruction in 46 departments and 45 major fields of study and awards the bachelor of arts and graduate degrees. The master of arts degree and the doctor of philosophy are regularly awarded in six fields of study. Students may choose from more than 900 courses each year and maybe counted upon to devise, with the faculty, some 900 individual tutorials and lessons. Wesleyan University was founded in 1831 by Methodist leaders and Middletown citizens. Instruction began with 48 students of varying ages, the president, three professors, and one tutor; tuition was $36 per year.

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