Wellesley College
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private women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts
Key facts
- Former names
- Wellesley Female Seminary (1870–1873)
- Motto
- Non Ministrari sed Ministrare ( Latin )
- Motto in english
- Not to be ministered unto, but to minister
- Type
- Private women's liberal arts college
- Established
- 1870 (chartered), 1875 (commenced classes)
- Accreditation
- NECHE
- Academic affiliations
- Annapolis Group CLAC COFHE NAICU Oberlin Group Seven Sisters Space-grant
- Endowment
- $3.19 billion (2025)
- President
- Paula A. Johnson
- Academic staff
- 338 (fall 2024)
- Undergraduates
- 2,285 (fall 2025)
- Campus
- Suburban ( college town ), 500 acres (200 ha)
- Colors
- Wellesley Blue
- Nickname
- Blue
- Sporting affiliations
- NCAA Division III – NEWMAC NEISA
- Mascot
- The Blue
- Website
- wellesley.edu
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Education, Funder
- Founded
- 1873
- Location
- Wellesley, United States
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.268091.4 · ISNI 0000 0004 1936 9561
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- women's college
- Part of
- Seven Sisters
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wellesley
- Founded by
- Henry Durant
- Industry
- higher education
- Employees
- 1177
- Official website
- www.wellesley.edu
- Image
- Wellesley College 1881.JPG
- Students count
- 2379
- Admission rate
- 0.20
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- Commons category
- Wellesley College
- topic's main category
- Category:Wellesley College
- inception
- 1870-00-00
- postal code
- 02481-8203
- category for alumni of educational institution
- Category:Wellesley College alumni
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:Wellesley College faculty
- street address
- 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA, 02481-8203
- social media followers
- 19217
- total assets
- 2991368000
- endowment
- 3236785000
- admission yield rate
- 0.43
- academic calendar type
- semester
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Istrana
- P8168
- Maizières
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is one of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of women's colleges in the northeastern United States.
Wellesley enrolls approximately 2,500 students, including transgender, non-binary and genderqueer students since 2015. It contains 60 departmental and interdepartmental majors spanning the liberal arts, as well as over 150 student clubs and organizations. Wellesley athletes compete in the NCAA Division III New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Its 500-acre (200 ha) campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and houses the Davis Museum and a botanic garden.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wellesley College” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.