Seventh-day Adventist university in Washington offering 100+ programs across five Pacific Northwest campuses.
Walla Walla University offers more than 100 areas of study including pre-professional degrees, associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, and four graduate programs. The university is administratively divided into six schools: Business, Education and Psychology, Engineering, Nursing, Social Work, and Theology. The largest undergraduate programs are nursing, engineering, business, biology, and education. The Department of Biological Sciences operates the Rosario Beach Marine Campus and offers the university's oldest master's degree program.
The main 83-acre campus in College Place, Washington serves nearly the entire undergraduate program and the graduate education program. Additional campuses include a Portland nursing campus (opened 1947), Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory in Anacortes (opened 1954), and graduate social work campuses in Missoula (1997) and Billings (2001), Montana. The campus features Martin Airfield (opened 1942), Columbia Auditorium, University Church, and residence halls including OPS and AGA dorms. Students engage in eight varsity sports (Wolves, NAIA/CCC), campus clubs, drama, music, and student missions programs that send 50–90 student missionaries annually worldwide.
The university accepts freshman, transfer, graduate, international, and non-degree-seeking students. More than 95% of students qualify for scholarships and financial aid. The typical student pays $7,346 per year out-of-pocket after aid. Campus visits (virtual and in-person) are available for prospective students to customize their experience.
Established in 1892 through the consolidation of three Oregon Adventist schools, Walla Walla College became the first Adventist institution to offer an exclusively vegetarian diet and the first to grant accreditation for a full four-year college program (1935). The university opened the first engineering school in the Seventh-day Adventist church (1947) and the first master's program in biology (1948). Today it serves approximately 1,700 students across five campuses with a mission rooted in Adventist values of faith, character development, and service.