The College of Wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. We engage motivated students in a rigorous and dynamic liberal education.

Mentored by a faculty nationally recognized for excellence in teaching, Wooster graduates are creative and independent thinkers with exceptional abilities to ask important questions, research complex issues, solve problems, and communicate new knowledge and insight.

A proud history with an international reputation for excellence
The College of Wooster is the nation’s premier college for mentored undergraduate research and the most internationalized campus in Ohio.

Located just 45 minutes from Cleveland, Wooster offers an excellent, comprehensive liberal arts education in a spirited residential setting, culminating in every student creating new knowledge through a rigorous, in-depth project of inquiry or creative expression. Working in partnership with a faculty mentor to conceive, organize, and complete a significant project on a topic of the student’s own choosing, every Wooster graduate develops abilities valued by employers and graduate schools alike: initiative, collaboration, self-confidence, independent judgment, creative problem solving, and strong written and oral communication skills.

Wooster is a vibrant, diverse, unpretentious community of learners with a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Students can be themselves at Wooster, discover and pursue their passions, connect learning in the classroom to the real world through paid internships, research fellowships, and other experiential opportunities, and forge lifelong bonds with faculty, coaches, and staff.

Mission, Vision & Values

Mission Statement
The College of Wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. We engage motivated students in a rigorous and dynamic liberal education. Mentored by a faculty nationally recognized for excellence in teaching, Wooster graduates are creative and independent thinkers with exceptional abilities to ask important questions, research complex issues, solve problems, and communicate new knowledge and insight.

Vision Statement
Our collective endeavor is to prosper as a distinguished independent liberal arts college, to thrive as a vigorous intellectual community, and to create a reputation that reflects our achievements. We seek to be leaders in liberal learning, building on our tradition of graduating independent thinkers who are well prepared to seek solutions to significant problems, to create and communicate new knowledge and insight, and to make significant contributions to our complex and interdependent world.

Core Values
These are the values that govern our shared pursuits, the ideas that we hold true:
 

• Education in the Liberal Arts Tradition
• A Focus on Research and Collaboration
• A Community of Learners
• Independence of Thought
• Social and Intellectual Responsibility
• Diversity and Inclusivity

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Wooster is committed to creating a welcoming, equitable, and inclusive campus for all members of our diverse and international community.

Students learn best when they study in a community that spans a wide range of experiences, traditions, identities, perspectives, and beliefs. Such diversity is necessary to fully realize our educational purpose, and we actively seek to increase it. Wooster students, staff and faculty come from all over the world, and from rural, urban, and suburban communities across the US.

Careers

Join a dedicated, vibrant campus community
The College of Wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. Mentored by a faculty nationally recognized for excellence in teaching, Wooster graduates are creative and independent thinkers with exceptional abilities to ask important questions, research complex issues, solve problems, and communicate new knowledge and insight.

Our diverse community is made up of students, faculty and staff from around the country and across the globe. Employees at the College have the opportunity to interact and get to know our students in meaningful ways and provide mentorship and guidance in formal and informal ways. In recognizing that student success is the reason for our work, we create a supportive community with a multitude of ways in which to make life-long connections that last beyond a student or employee’s time at the College.