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Founding Date: |
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1749 |
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Affiliation: |
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Private, non-profit |
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Carnegie Classifications:
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Basic: Baccalaureate Colleges--Arts & Sciences
Size and Setting: Small four-year, highly residential
Enrollment Profile: High undergraduate
Undergraduate Profile: Full-time four-year, more selective, lower
transfer-in
Undergraduate Instructional Program: Arts & sciences plus professions,
no graduate coexistence
Graduate Instructional Program: Postbaccalaureate professional
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Accreditations and approvals: |
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Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission of Colleges
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Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) |
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Undergraduate |
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Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications
(ACEJMC) |
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American Chemical Society (ACS) |
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The Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business (AACSB
International) |
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Law |
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American Bar Association, Council on Legal Education (ABA) |
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Association of American Law Schools (AALS) |
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Academic Calendar: |
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Undergraduate:
4-4-2 (two four-month terms plus a six-week spring term) |
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Law: 4-4 (two 14-week semesters) |
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Degrees Offered: |
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Bachelor of Arts |
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Bachelor of Science |
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Juris Doctor |
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Master of Laws |
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Location: |
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332-acre campus in Lexington, Virginia |
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55 miles from Roanoke |
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70 from Charlottesville |
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Governance: |
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The President of Washington and Lee University |
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The Trustees of the University |
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Mission and
Honor System: |
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"Washington and Lee University has two preeminent objectives: to dedicate
all its resources to developing in its students the capacity and desire
to learn, to understand, and to share the fruits of their intellectual
growth, and to pursue its educational mission in a climate of learning
that stresses the importance of the individual, personal honor and
integrity, harmonious relationships with others, and the responsibility
to serve society through the productive use of talent and training..." |
