Wabash men have access to a full range of pre-professional programs, academic minors, and off-campus study opportunities.
Students interested in business typically enroll in our Center for Innovation, Business & Entrepreneurship, which is a set of courses that best prepare young men for careers in business. The program also includes a range of on- and off-campus immersion experiences, including the Summer Business Immersion, as well as networking events, internships, and externships.
New co-curricular also include Democracy & Public Discourse, Global Health Initiative, and Digital Arts & Human Values.
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Stephenson Institute
The Stephenson Institute for Classical Liberalism is a non-partisan, student-centered forum that asks important questions about personal responsibility, individual rights, freedom of speech, and the essential role of liberty in a free society.
Wabash offers pre-professional programs and advising in law, medicine, and engineering. Pre-law students often compete in the fierce Moot Court competition, participate in the LSAT Bootcamp, and make visits to top-ranked law schools. Over 80 percent of our pre-med students are admitted to medical schools thanks in part to excellent pre-med advising, a rigorous curriculum, and opportunities for research with faculty and job shadowing with alumni physicians. For young men interested in engineering, Wabash offers dual degree programs with Purdue, Columbia, and Washington universities.
The college has a dedicated staff member who serves as the Fellowship Advisor. Students who are interested in learning about or applying for nationally-competitive fellowship or scholarship opportunities - such as the Fulbright, Truman, Rhodes, Gilman, Marshall, Knight-Hennessy or Goldwater - should visit the FELLOWSHIPS website for further information.
All Wabash freshmen take two all-college courses. The first, Freshman Tutorial, is taught in the fall semester and introduces students to academic life at Wabash. Topics vary with individual instructors and are usually interdisciplinary and non-tradition. Recent Tutorials have covered the history of baseball in American life, the art of interactive media (video games), men and masculinity, and Homer’s Iliad, to name a few. In the spring semester, all freshmen take Enduring Questions, a colloquium devoted to engaging students with fundamental questions of humanity from multiple perspectives. Both courses teach students to read critically, write clearly, and communicate effectively.
For more than a decade, Wabash has offered students opportunities to take Immersion Learning Courses. Each year, over 100 students and professors travel across the country and around the world to do intense research and study in locations critical to their classroom work. Classics students study in Rome and Athens; German students spend a week in Berlin; English literature students study Hardy, Dickens, and Joyce in the cities and towns where they wrote; theater students spend a week in London’s theater district or in New York City.