Welcome to Wake Forest!
A Summer Waitlist Update
As we prepare for the summer, we’d like to provide some more information about our waitlist.
See the World Beyond the Given.
Wake Forest University embraces that the world is rich and complex. We prize the liberal arts: asking “how” and “why” questions across a wide variety of disciplines. We hope you’ll ask those important questions too – because we want to engage with you and your forward-thinking ideas.
Our philosophy: the engaged liberal arts. Dean of the College Michele Gillespie explains that Wake Forest “delivers a rigorous liberal arts education that meets the needs of the world.”
Please explore that philosophy and what we can offer you. Also, don’t hesitate to reach out with your questions.
Just Getting Started?
New here? No problem. Here’s where to start.
The Basics
- Location: Winston-Salem, NC
- Type: Private
- National Rank: #28 (U.S. News)
- Undergrad Enrollment: 5,472
- Ethnic Diversity: 30%
What to Study
Wake Forest offers 45 majors and 60 minors. Following the engaged liberal-arts philosophy, students take courses in literature and languages, math and the natural sciences, religion, history, and philosophy, the social and behavioral sciences, and the fine arts.
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Experience Wake Forest
Sitting on 340 acres, Wake Forest University is home to six colleges, a research-innovation quarter, and the personalized attention you need with a student-faculty ratio of 11:1. Those are some numbers, but below discover infinite possibilities.
Don’t stop here. There’s more to explore.
Considering Wake Forest?
Here’s how to show your interest and get to know us.
Interviews 
Only seniors who have applied for admission are eligible for a virtual interview or video submission. Both are optional and not required as part of the admission process.
Apply
No matter how you apply, what matters is that we get to know you and gain a full appreciation of your excellence.
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Campus Visits and Information Sessions
Whether in-person – student-led tours in June or student-led tours paired with information sessions in July and August – or online – our diverse offering of live virtual information sessions – we want to help guide you through the world of possibility that is Wake Forest University.
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Come visit our beautiful campus! Due to high demand, additional guided tours are now available for July and August. Register at the link in profile. Go Deacs!
Our Forest is populated by more than 100 species of trees and more than 100 species of birds. More importantly, it is infused, invigorated, and enhanced by the experiences, scholarship, and cultural traditions of an entire planet.
One of every 10 Wake Forest undergraduates in 2021-22 came to the University from another country, but that’s only part of this global story.
The other is in the students — regardless of their points of origin — who take the leap to learn abroad and bring their knowledge back to their main academic home. In all, 66% of the Class of 2020 received academic credit for study abroad. That’s the third-highest figure among national universities in U.S. News & World Report’s September 2021 rankings.
Ours is the only Top 30 national university to own three academic-residential houses in other countries. Between them, Worrell House in London, Flow House in Vienna, and Casa Artom in Venice have been home to more than 3,000 Wake Foresters over the years.
It’s also important to note that our commitment to international education flows both ways. Wake Forest provides international students with a yearlong transitional experience rooted in written and spoken communication.
To learn more about all of these global experiences, please visit our campus community.
July and August Visits
From July 6-August 10, we will offer in-person information sessions paired with student-led campus tours. This two-hour visit experience will be offered Monday-Friday from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Register for your campus-visit experience at the link in profile. Go Deacs!
To tell you more about how Wake Forest creates contexts in which classroom concepts meet real-world experience, we hope you will visit our campus community.
From July 6-August 10, we will offer in-person information sessions paired with student-led campus tours. This two-hour visit experience will be offered Monday-Friday from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Register for your campus-visit experience at the link in profile. Go Deacs!
Wake Forest University faculty and staff work here for the chance to engage in meaningful interactions with Wake Forest students.
(We’re a liberal-arts school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with an 11:1 student-faculty ratio, 45 majors and 60 minors, and a 98% job and graduate-school placement rate.)
In fact, we regularly gather our students in “Calls to Conversation,” congregating small groups around dinner tables in faculty’s and administrators’ homes to talk and listen, to discuss serious topics in a structured, moderated conversation.
Our “Call to Conversation” is a time to put away our devices and engage in face-to-face interaction.
A chance to explore differences and build connections.
Simultaneous gatherings.
A shared meal and real communication.
We hope that, one day soon, we might see you around campus. And the dinner table.
To tell you more about how Wake Forest creates contexts in which classroom concepts meet real-world experience, we hope you will visit our campus community (link in profile).
We look forward to having a conversation with you soon.
Most of us need a job, and Wake Forest will help you achieve that – but also much more:
We’ll help you find a context in which you may do your best work.
Wake Forest University’s Office of Personal and Career Development (OPCD) equips students with the tools and confidence to navigate the often daunting path from college to career.
And our unique approach yields results.
For nine consecutive years, at least 96% of students in each graduating class were employed or in graduate school within six months of graduation. Additionally, we’re one of very few top national universities to offer five college-to-career courses for credit. The OPCD developed Ready7, a step-by-step process that gives students a clear set of accomplishable actions to be prepared, confident, and ready for career and life.
Students engage with employers through hundreds of experiences, including industry-specific Career Treks, career fairs, “boot camps,” and diversity recruiting events. After graduation, students will continue to be supported throughout their careers by the national-award-winning Alumni Personal and Career Development Center.
Early and intentional engagement: that’s the philosophy of the OPCD – and Wake Forest as a whole.
Get ready to be inspired, challenged, and prepared for your future by engaging with the OPCD team from Day One.
Student research is not only encouraged at Wake Forest; it’s backed by one of our most popular Centers, the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center (URECA).
In the past ten editions (2011-19, 2021), Undergraduate Research Day at Wake Forest has featured 1,321 presentations, more than 95% of which have been mentored by one or more faculty members. The research has been as close to home as campus and as far away as Thailand, one of nearly 60 foreign countries to which students have traveled in pursuing their work.
The chance to work side-by-side with your professors while creating new knowledge together is an experience that’s hard to beat. That’s one of the reasons we don’t limit student research to upperclass students. At Wake Forest, this experience is open to everyone.
So make sure to pack your ideas. We can’t wait to meet them, too.
Undergraduate research is a major focus of Wake Forest University, even during the summer months!
Through our Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center, we help students find professors, and vice-versa, to explore shared areas of interest, alert them to funding opportunities, showcase their research, and provide support for class, conference, and publication work.
We fully and publicly support research that expands our worldviews, helps us come to terms with the world’s irreducibility, and shapes and reshapes our interpretations of this complex world.
Examples of our activities?
* We provide summer stipends and housing to students engaged in scholarly and creative activities with WFU faculty mentors,
* organize campus-wide activities to showcase undergraduate research and creative work, including annual Research Day presentations,
* promote and support participation at professional meetings by student researchers and their faculty mentors, including national and regional disciplinary conferences,
* offer practical and pedagogical workshops and discussions for both undergraduates and faculty on the importance of undergraduate research practices,
* and develop and employ assessment tools that measure and track outcomes of undergraduate mentored scholarly and creative activities.
See the world beyond the given.
We couldn’t be prouder of you, Deacons! Congratulations! GO DEACS!
Wake Forest University's Commencement is Monday, May 16! Congratulations, Deacons!