Wellesley College

private women's liberal arts college in Massachusetts
Organization university Q49205
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Summary

Wellesley College is a university[1].

Key Facts

  • Member of: Women's College Coalition[2], Association of American Colleges and Universities[3], American Council on Education[4], National Humanities Alliance[5], Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition[6]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Wellesley[7]
  • Country: United States[8]
  • Instance of: private not-for-profit educational institution[9], women's college[10]
  • Founder: Henry Durant[11]
  • Postal code: 02481-8203[12]
  • Part of: Seven Sisters[13]
  • Industry: higher education[14]
  • Chairperson: Paula Johnson[15]
  • Has part(s): Davis Museum and Cultural Center[16]
  • Inception: 1870[17]
  • Official website: https://www.wellesley.edu[18]
  • Employees: 1177[19]
  • Described by source: The Encyclopedia Americana[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21]
  • Owner of: WZLY[22]
  • Count of students: 2474[23], 2392[24], 2379[25]
  • Total assets: 2,991,368,000 US dollars[26]
  • Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: baccalaureate colleges: arts and sciences focus[27], exclusively undergraduate four-year[28], four-year, small, highly residential[29], arts & sciences focus, no graduate coexistence[30], four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in[31]
  • Admission rate: 0.20[32]
  • Street address: 106 Central St, Wellesley, MA, 02481-8203[33]
  • Endowment: 2,285,397,000 US dollars[34], 2,846,865,000 US dollars[35]

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  1. [8] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [12] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [2] ↑ . womenscolleges.org. womenscolleges.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [3] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [4] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [5] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [6] ↑ . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . nacubo.org. Retrieved . nacubo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. wikidata.org.
  31. [32] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . nacubo.org. Retrieved . nacubo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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