About
Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.. Wellesley is known for the excellence of its education, the beauty of its setting, its gifted faculty, and the uniqueness of its campus culture. But most of all, Wellesley is known for the thousands of accomplished, thoughtful women it has sent out into the world for over 100 years—women who are committed to making a difference.
Wellesley's average class size is between 17 and 20 students, with a student-faculty ratio of 7:1. Wellesley's libraries contain more than 1.5 million cataloged books, journals, media recordings, maps, and other items. Wellesley College offers 52 distinct undergraduate degrees, concentrated into 37 majors within 15 broad fields of study
Wellesley’s lively academic community places a high value on rigorous, probing inquiry, and creative, cross-discipline thinking. Everything about Wellesley College bespeaks its commitment to women, and to providing them with an unequaled educational experience that honors and cultivates not only what is best about each of them, and their own potential, but about what women offer our world.