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University Quick Facts

Willamette University's Salem campus, showing the Hatfield Library and Millstream

Founded

1842


University Type

Private university with an undergraduate liberal arts college, an undergraduate art and design college, and four professional graduate schools in law, management, art and design, and computing and data science.


President

Stephen E. Thorsett


Degree Programs


Tuition and Fees


Athletics

Willamette University Bearcats logo

Budget and Endowment, 2023

  • Operating budget: $96.5 million
  • Endowment: $304.8 million

Employees, June 2023

  • Full-time Instructional: 187
  • Part-time Instructional: 150
  • Full-time Staff: 371
  • Part-time Staff: 94
  • Total: 802

Alumni

  • 38,506 alumni
  • 71% live in Oregon, Washington or California

Recognition

Willamette has been recognized for academics, sustainability and service — see what others say about us.


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Campuses

Enrollment, Oct. 2023*

  • College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate: 1,565
  • Pacific Northwest College of Art Undergraduate: 412
  • Joint Degree, JD/MBA, BA/JD, BA/MBA, MBA/MSDS, BA/MSDS: 74
  • College of Law: 326
  • Atkinson Graduate School of Management: 114
  • Pacific Northwest College of Art Graduate: 112
  • Computing & Data Science Graduate: 34
  • Total: 2,637

Degrees Awarded, 2022–23*

  • BA, BS, BM: 342
  • BFA: 80
  • MBA, MBAP: 94
  • JD, LLM, MLS: 103
  • MFA, MA: 55
  • MS: 10
  • Total: 684

Accreditations

  • Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
  • University Senate of The United Methodist Church
  • National Association of Schools of Music
  • American Bar Association
  • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International
  • National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA)

Global Partnerships

  • Co-located with Tokyo International University of America, the American campus of Willamette’s Japanese sister university
  • In a typical school year, more than 40 percent of Willamette’s undergraduates earn credit abroad through opportunities in more than 40 countries