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North Carolina Wesleyan is a four-year coeducational,
liberal arts college, with a number of preprofessional programs, founded in 1956. It is
related to the United Methodist Church.
Telephone numbers:
(252) 985-5100 (Campus Switchboard)
(800) 488-NCWC (Office of Admission)
(800) 488-6292(919) 736-2312 (NCWC-Goldsboro)
(919) 465-4777 (NCWC-Triangle) |
- Postal address:
- 3400 North Wesleyan Boulevard
Rocky Mount, NC 27804-8630
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Driving Directions: Rocky Mount, Raleigh-Durham
Wesleyan's Statement of Purpose
- Enrollment: About 900 students in the traditional Rocky Mount program.
Another 1,300 students are enrolled in the evening college programs at
sites in Rocky Mount, Morrisville, and Goldsboro.
- Student-Faculty Ratio: 17 to 1
- Degrees Offered: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science.
- Accredited: by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools. The Teacher Education Program is accredited by the National Council
for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
- Cultural Programs: Visiting
Writers Series, Performing
Arts Series, Staley
Lecture Series, Mims Gallery Exhibits, Four Sisters Gallery
- Special Collections: The Lynch Collection of Outsider
Art, Johnson Collection of North Carolina Maps, Black Mountain College Collection
- Performing Groups: The Wesleyan
College Choir, Gospel Choir, Wesleyan
Players
- Student Publications: The Decree (newspaper), The Dissenter (yearbook)
- Campus: The attractively planned 200-acre campus contains
six residence halls, nine academic and main buildings, Performing Arts Center and outdoor
athletic facilities, including soccer field, baseball field, tennis courts, intramural
fields, and softball field.
- Located: in Rocky Mount, North
Carolina (pop. 55,000), just off Interstate 95.
- Driving Distances: (map/directions)
- Richmond, VA: 120 miles
- Washington, DC: 200 miles
- Baltimore, MD: 220 miles
- Columbia, SC: 220 miles
- Philadelphia, PA: 300 miles
- New York, NY: 450 miles
- Boston, MA: 550 miles
- Charlotte, NC: 200 miles
- Savannah, GA: 320 miles
- Jacksonville, FL: 450 miles
- Athletics: USA South
Athletic Conference, NCAA Division III. Men's baseball, basketball, golf,
soccer and tennis; Women's basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball.
North Carolina Wesleyan College does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion,
creed, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, marital status, or disability in
administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan
programs, athletic and other school administered programs. |
