FIND YOUR DIRECTION
Interests
and Fitting It All Together
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
That’s a big question. Plenty of people are probably asking you that these days. You’re likely asking yourself the same thing.
What do I want to do?
What do I not want to do?
Where should I go to start doing that thing I want to do?
And maybe…
What if I don’t know what I want to do?
Enter the Compass Curriculum
One of the many great things about Wheaton is that we give you the space— along with the resources and expert advice that are needed—to explore a world of ideas and possibilities. To ask yourself questions, and to meet people who can guide you. To take a familiar path, or try a new one, or travel several paths simultaneously.
Our Compass Curriculum gives you the flexibility to chart your own course to success. It’s light on requirements beyond the major, so you have the space to explore the topics that interest you.
At Wheaton, you have the benefit of personalized advising and professional mentorship from distinguished faculty who can help whether you already know where you want to go, or if you’re working on figuring that out.
VISUAL ART & HISTORY OF ART
NURSING (BSN)
COMMUNICATIONS
CHEMISTRY
BIOLOGY
HISPANIC STUDIES
ENGLISH
COMPUTER SCIENCE
NEUROSCIENCE
BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
DESIGN
ECONOMICS
FILM & NEW MEDIA
PSYCHOLOGY
EDUCATION
Life and career navigation
Wheaton’s Life and Career Design Institute integrates design thinking principles to help you align your education with your personal and professional goals.
Through the Life and Career Design Cycle, you’ll explore interests, develop strategies, and create meaningful experiences from your first year onward. Career Navigators provide personalized guidance on experiential learning, building networks, and accessing funding to support internships, research, and other hands-on opportunities. This holistic approach ensures that you connect classroom learning with real-world activities:
• Study abroad experiences
• Research with faculty or external organizations
• Career conversations and job-shadowing
• Internships and service learning
Beyond the classroom, you’ll connect your goals to courses, clubs, and relationships with peers, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals. With unlimited access to one-on-one career coaching during your time as a student as well as throughout your alumni years, Wheaton ensures that you graduate ready to thrive in your career and life.
It’s guaranteed
100% of students are guaranteed access to funding outside-the-classroom learning, where you will gain relevant skills, connections, and awareness to forge a successful career.
Self Understand yourself and Wheaton
Synthesis
Transform your expertise into action
You
System
Make informed decisions and set goals
Story
Tell your story with impact
This is the place
You will find an active, diverse and welcoming campus community. Our students pursue wideranging interests in more than 100 student-run organizations, including club and intramural sports; 26 varsity athletic teams (Wheaton is the only college in the East to offer 5 varsity aquatic sports); a unique student-managed event space; and vibrant centers for community service, social justice, entrepreneurship and making. (And so much more!)
Varsity athletic teams
• Artistic swimming (W)
• Baseball (M)
• Basketball (W, M)
• Cross country (W, M)
• Fencing (W, M)
• Field hockey (W)
• Lacrosse (W, M)
• Soccer (W, M)
• Softball (W)
• Swimming and diving (W, M)
• Tennis (W, M)
• Track and field (W, M)
• Volleyball (W, M)
• Water polo (W, M)
12 things you can do at Wheaton
1. Sing a cappella (in one of five performance groups)
2. Learn to play steel drums
3. Play ultimate frisbee
4. Debate a historic or current event
5. Improvise (with our awardwinning improv team)
6. Write and speak poetry
7. Make art
8. Make dinner
9. Explore the outdoors
10. Dance
11. Join a student think-tank
12. Build a boat and race on Peacock Pond
Who will you find at Wheaton?
Wheaton’s academic community includes 1,700 students from more than 43 states and more than 40 countries and about 150 talented professors who teach (and learn), mentor and collaborate with students on research, inventions and other big ideas.
11:1
Student-faculty ratio
260+
Scholarships and fellowships (Rhodes, Fulbright, Watson, etc.) won by students since 2000
99%
Percentage of new students receive scholarships covering at least half of tuition
15-20
Average class size
$
24,414
The overall average net cost for all first-year students in Fall 2024
40%
Percentage of first-year students in Fall 2024 saw a total bill (after aid) of less than $20,000
What can you study at Wheaton?
Undergraduate programs
African, African American, Diaspora Studies
Animal Behavior
Anthropology
Art History
Art (Visual)
Astronomy
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Biology
Business and Management (B.S.)
Chemistry (B.S.)
Classics
Communications
Computer Science (B.S.)
Creative Arts Management
Creative Writing and Literature
Criminal Justice
Dance
Design
Early Childhood Education
Econometrics and Quantitative Economics
Economics
Education
Elementary Education
Engineering
English Environmental Science
Film and New Media Studies
Finance (B.S.)
French Studies
Global Literary Studies
German Studies
Greek
Healthcare Management
Hispanic Studies
History
Human Resource
Management
International Business
International Relations
Italian Studies
Journalism Studies
Latin
Legal Studies
Liberal Arts
Marketing (B.S.)
Mathematics
Mathematics and Computer
Science
Music
Neuroscience
Nursing (B.S.N.)
Optometry
Philosophy
Physics (B.A. and B.S.)
Political Science
Pre-Dentistry
Pre-Law
Pre-Medicine
Pre-Occupational Therapy
Pre-Physical Therapy
Pre-Physician Assistant
Pre-Veterinary
Psychology
Public Health
Public Administration
Queer and Trans Studies
Religion
Russian Studies
Secondary Education
Statistics
Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management
Sociology
Teaching Multilingual Learners
Theatre
Transnational Cultural Studies
Women’s and Gender Studies
4+1 Master’s Programs
Earn a bachelor’s and a master’s degree on an accelerated five-year schedule.
Business (M.S.), options for specialization in arts management or sustainable business
Creative Industries (M.A.), business and management, digital media and the arts
Environmental Science (M.S.), environmental research, planning, and policy
For detailed information on academic programs, please visit our website.
A sampling of first jobs
• ACLU of Massachusetts
• Colgate-Palmolive
• Comedy Central
• General Dynamics
• JP Morgan Chase & Co.
• MetLife
• Microsoft
• NBC Universal Inc.
• Oxford University Press
• Pfizer
• Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office
• Sotheby’s
While you’re figuring out the answers to some big questions, here are a few easy answers about Wheaton...
Where is Wheaton College?
Founded in 1834
Located in Norton, Massachusetts, Wheaton College has a welcoming and walkable campus with a traditional New England feel (trees that change with the season, an active campus green known as The Dimple, and a mix of classic brick buildings and modern architecture)
95% students live in on-campus guaranteed housing all four years
19 residential halls, including a brand new hall with a focus on mind and body wellness
17 student-run theme houses
Top 25 Best Classroom Experience, The Princeton Review 2025 Best College Rankings
Top 50 Best Value Liberal Arts College, U.S. News & World Report, 2025
Top Producing Fulbright Institution, U.S. Department of State, 2024
Top 10 Safest City In The United States (Norton), SafeWise Report
Did you know?
There are actually two, unaffiliated Wheaton Colleges, one in Massachusetts and one in Illinois. Find our Wheaton in New England at wheatoncollege.edu. Rankings
