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Wheaton College

Private liberal arts college in Norton, Massachusetts
Organization University Q924318

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
university, private not-for-profit educational institution[4]
Official website
www.wheatoncollege.edu[10]

Status and dates

Inception
1834[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1834 GND (DNB) 1912 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.968°, -71.184°[9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Norton[2]
Postal code
02766-2322[5]
Street address
26 E Main St, Norton, MA, 02766-2322

Industry and activity

Industry
higher education[6]

Financials

Employees
+509[11]
Total assets
+374085010[18]

People

Chairperson
Dennis M. Hanno[7]
More facts +10
Academic calendar type
semester
Admission rate
+0.77
Admission yield rate
+0.17
Athletics program
Wheaton Lyons
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
baccalaureate colleges: arts and sciences focus, exclusively undergraduate four-year, four-year, small, highly residential, arts & sciences focus, no graduate coexistence, four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in[19][20][21][22][23]
Count of students
1.7k (1.5k–2.6k, n=3)[15][16][17]
Described by source
The Encyclopedia Americana, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[12][13]
Different from
Wheaton College[14]
Endowment
647.4M (210.6M–647.4M, n=3)
Social media followers
+6121, +5994
🏷️ Also known as
en Wheaton College en Wheaton Female Seminary ar كلية ويتون fa ویتن کالج he קולג' וייטון ja ウィートン・カレッジ ja ウィートン大学 zh 韦顿学院
🔖 Identifiers · 32
ROR ID
055ja0v85
ISNI
0000000091114134, 0000000088644185
VIAF cluster ID
129009587, 132538221
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n80166997
GND ID
814721-8
OpenAlex ID
I53618229
GRID ID
grid.422659.e
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Wheaton College (MA) Sign.jpg ↗
Crunchbase organization ID
wheaton-college-massachusetts
Domain name
wheatoncollege.edu
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Wheaton-College-Norton-Massachusetts
Facebook username
WheatonCollege
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Freebase ID
/m/041g_4
GeoNames ID
4955384
Giphy username
wheatoncollege
Instagram username
wheatoncollege
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
168281
J9U entity ID
987007352274605171
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
814721-8
Kallías ID
KS00153338
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
53618229
OpenStreetMap way ID
311556549
Ringgold ID
6097
SEVIS school ID
4212
SNARC ID
HNLMS Tromp
Scilit organization ID
14965
Threads username
wheatoncollege
Times Higher Education World University ID
wheaton-college-massachusetts
Topic's main category
Category:Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
UniRank ID
9103
X (Twitter) username
wheaton
Yale LUX ID
group/05c1f010-8338-4fa0-a2c2-ea17cc1dfa7f
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
28 m 2026-09-26 S/SCH · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Notable alumni 12
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Catherine Keener, Christine Todd Whitman, Callie Thorne, Lesley Stahl, Ann Ronell, Mary Ellen Avery, Gabe Amo +4 more
Employees / affiliates 6
Hilda Geiringer, Jane Cronin Scanlon, Maria Ovsiankina, Hyunju Kim, Michael B Gousie, Thomas VanDrunen
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Norton, TiPS 1b
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni, Category:Wheaton College (Massachusetts) faculty
Academic calendar type 1
semester
Category for alumni of educational institution 1
Category:Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni
Country 1
United States
Different from 1
Wheaton College
Industry 1
higher education
Instance of 1
university
SNARC ID 1
HNLMS Tromp
Topic's main category 1
Category:Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
← Different from 1
Wheaton College
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Summary

Wheaton College is a university[1].

Related Entities

Catherine Keener Hyunju Kim Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Michael B Gousie Thomas VanDrunen TiPS 1b United States university

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Class ancestry

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  1. 9w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
    Instagram username → wheatoncollege
    Admission yield rate → 0.17
    Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID → 168281
    + 52 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: OpenStreetMap way ID: 311556549, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/311556549 in United States"
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