Wake Forest University

Wake Forest is a high quality institution with excellent graduate placement rates. They focus on crafting an education for the entire person, including promoting out-of-class opportunities, such as extending research to undergrads. Professors demand a lot from students, but love what they do, so are helpful and allow students to have a voice. You’ll get a small school atmosphere with large-school resources, including a strongly supportive alumni network. The community is encouraging and open and they boast D1 athletics.

Popular majors / known for: Business, Psychology, Political Science

Academic approach: Liberal arts with an undergraduate program in the school of business. Embraces teacher-scholar ideals and values student-faculty engagement.

Campus tradition: Springfest is an annual event organized by the Student Union which includes a wide variety of events across the span of a week in April. It concludes on Friday night with its largest event, Shag on the Mag, an annual dance held in a covered tent on Manchester Plaza (also known as The Magnolia Quad). Students dress up for a night of live music, dancing and catered food.

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School also featured in: Big School Feel, Similar to Highly Selective - Princeton, Conservative Leaning