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Oregon’s Best Career Center, Reimagined for Your Future

The Renjen Career Center is Willamette’s new hub for career development, right in the heart of the Salem campus. But it’s more than a building. It’s a bold new approach to helping you build a career that fits your goals, from your first day on campus through graduation and beyond.

Your Success Story Starts Here

Welcome to the Future of Career Readiness

At Willamette, we don’t just get you ready for a job. We help you build a career that connects your passions with your potential. Opening in Fall 2025, the Renjen Career Center will bring together advising, networking, mentorship, and career-focused programs. With more career staff per student than many large universities and a new $2 million facility, we're raising the bar for what career support should look like.

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An architectural rendering of the Renjen Career Center interior.
An architectural rendering of the Renjen Career Center exterior.

At Willamette, Our Athletes Break Records On the Field and in the Classroom

It’s not just about game day. At Willamette, student-athletes don’t have to choose between victory and academics. They win at both. This past spring semester, Bearcats posted a 3.42 GPA and 119 of them earned a GPA above a 3.75.

Academic All-Stars

20 Teams. One Goal: Excellence.

This isn’t a fluke. It’s our philosophy. We believe that academic drive and athletic intensity are a powerful combination. This is what it looks like when personal growth, leadership, and grit come together. And while this competition took place in the classroom, the results are just as headline-worthy as any scoreboard.

Celebrating Our Athlete’s Academic Success
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Some Things You Have to See for Yourself

Want to know if Willamette is the right fit? Don’t guess. Come see for yourself. Tour the campus. Sit in on a class. Talk with students who’ve turned their curiosity into career paths. Because the best way to decide if a university is right for you is to walk its paths, meet its people, and feel the vibe for yourself.

Where Curiosity Becomes Clarity

Step on Campus. Picture Your Future.

Soak in the energy of downtown Salem. Visiting Willamette gives you something college rankings or viewbooks can’t: a real look at how your next chapter might begin. Chat with students. Meet professors who actually care. And see what it’s like to be part of a community where your potential is the baseline, not the exception.

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Learning and Leading since 1842

For almost 200 years, Willamette has helped students turn their knowledge into action — right here in the heart of the Pacific Northwest.

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Discover how you can turn knowledge into action through our undergraduate and graduate programs, or take a closer look at what it’s like to live and learn in the Pacific Northwest.
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