THIS IS WAGNER COLLEGE

"Beautiful upon the hill. Looking out to the Sea, There our thoughts are turning still. To hours we spent with three. We love thee alma mater, our praise to thee we sing, For Wagner will forever be Deep in memory." Wagner Alma Mater Frank Betancourt, '41

Founded in 1883 as a Lutheran seminary, Wagner has evolved to become an independent residential liberal arts college enrolling a capacity of over 2,000 students. Most students reside at the College and come from over 34 states and 20 countries.

A selective, A selective, competitive institution, Wagner's enrollment is full-to-capacity. The College's primary undergraduate focus is a broad-based liberal arts curriculum embodied by "The Wagner Plan" a nationally recognized approach which features learning communities emphasizing "learning by doing" through off-campus experientials which complement in-classroom studies.

The Wagner Plan was recently cited by the American Association of Universities and Colleges as a national case study exemplar, and noted in the September 10, 2001 edition of TIME Magazine. Wagner has also been selected by the Harvard Medical School as an undergraduate research partner. U.S. News & World Report annually ranks Wagner "top tier" among northeastern regional colleges and universities and top ten among private regional colleges and universities in New York State. In the 2004 edition of The Princeton Review Wagner was ranked the "Most Beautiful Campus" among 357 colleges as well as the nation's "Top Theatre" program. In the spring of 2005 the College received the prestigious TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for its outstanding faculty development and undergraduate education program.

Wagner's location within the city limits of America's largest and most influential urban center provides students with ready access to the impressive array of professional and cultural offerings of Manhattan. At the same time, Wagner's rural atmosphere offers a contrasting atmosphere that is more characteristic of the New York Finger Lakes region, rural New England or the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. Movie companies have frequently used the campus as a classic college setting, most recently for a movie titled "School of Rock" starring Jack Black (Shallow Hal). The picturesque campus was also used in a fall 2001 television series, The Education of Max Bixford, starring Richard Dreyfus and as the young Soprano's prospective private military school in the HBO series, The Sopranos.

The full-time faculty and staff assembled at Wagner bring experiences from many of the finest colleges and universities in America including Harvard, Dartmouth, Yale, Vassar, Indiana, Williams, Skidmore, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Chicago, Shawnee, Bryn Mawr, Fordham, St. Bonaventure and the University of London to name just a few.

Campus life includes the array of sports provided by an NCAA Division I program which is housed in a 93,000-square-foot sports center featuring an extensive fitness center, an indoor NCAA swimming pool and a basketball arena. A football and track & field stadium showcases a variety of playing fields throughout the campus including baseball, softball, lacrosse and soccer venues.

Wagner`s graduate programs include master's degrees in business, education, nursing and microbiology. Noteworthy among Wagner's nationally prominent academic offerings is a theatre program that specializes in musicals and is considered one of the nation's finest. Over 80% of undergraduates intend to earn graduate degrees and over 12% aspire to careers in medicine.

Wagner's alumni include Broadway Tony award winners, movie stars, film producers, playwrights, and Fortune 500 CEO's including the Chairman of GE Investments, the Chairman of Dupont Europe, the Chairman Emeritus of The Oppenheimer Management Company and the Chairman of the New York Power Authority.