“Being a student here means that you will be a member of a close-knit community with welcoming undergraduates and faculty. It means that a professor from your first year will still recognize you as a junior.” — Kate Rogers ('09)
Wake Forest University is a leading collegiate university that combines the College's liberal arts core with distinctive programs in our graduate and professional schools, providing rich interdisciplinary programs for our students and faculty. We can produce great educational outcomes precisely because we are small enough to know one another, to forge strong links among our schools and departments. Our size and distinctive community create academic benefits for students and faculty that are challenging for larger, less personal universities to match.
The College embraces the teacher-scholar ideal, prizing student-faculty engagement--that personal interaction between students and faculty that can make college so special. It is a place where exceptional teaching, fundamental research and discovery, and the engagement of faculty and students in the classroom and the laboratory are paramount.
Wake Forest College of Arts and Sciences is a college that puts the education of the student first, with that education built on a firm foundation of outstanding scholarship. State-of-the-art research and scholarship reflects in the teaching—our students reap the benefits of our scholarly activities because we are encouraged to involve and engage them. Wake Forest College, thus, offers the opportunity to combine the best of both worlds—emphasis on both teaching and scholarship--to the benefit of both our students and our faculty.