Washington State University Vancouver is a premier, non-residential research university with access to the breadth and depth of resources of the WSU system.
Our academic community personalizes education. Our students interact with renowned professors engaged in leading research, as well as with community and industry leaders providing real-world experiences and career connections.
Amidst the basalt columns of our landmark fountains and stunning mountains framed in our outdoor view ways, we challenge and inspire our students to achieve their highest life and career goals, for themselves and their community.
Campus Profile (Spring 2008)
- Enrollment (Spring 2008): 2,562 Students; 1,902 FTE
- Female: 60.6%; Male: 39.4%; Students of color represent 11% of total enrollment
- More than 90 fulltime, Ph.D. faculty
- 15,600 area WSU alumni, nearly 6,000 of whom graduated from WSU Vancouver
- More than 157,000 alumni worldwide
Campus Resources
The 350-acre campus has many computing laboratories including student computing labs, group instruction labs, fine arts labs, circuits and microprocessors lab, computer aided drafting lab and a writing center. All provide students use of the Internet and access to WSU computing resources.
WSU Vancouver's library has more than 800 journals in hardcopy and over 9,000 fulltext online journals and newspapers, a core collection of more than 20,000 books and access to more than 100 major bibliographic databases. The library participates in several local and regional library consortia, including the Portland Area Library System and ORBIS/CASCADE (the Oregon and Washington Cooperative Library Project). It also houses the Environmental Information Cooperative Library.
Using the Videoconference Services, we send and receive classes and meetings to other WSU campuses and sites throughout the state.
History
Washington State University began offering courses in Southwest Washington in 1983 as part of the Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education. In 1989, the University formally established Washington State University Vancouver as a branch campus of the state's land-grant institution. The Salmon Creek campus opened in 1996.
We offer 16 Bachelor's degrees, 9 Master's degrees, 1 Doctorate degree, and more than 35 fields of study.
In Fall 2006, WSU Vancouver admitted freshmen and sophomores for the first time and began offering lower-division courses.