Washington Agricultural College and Science College were established in 1890, and the school officially started teaching in 1892+ 10/3. 1905, the school became Washington state university. 1927 the first expense of American state university? Beta? Kappa top students' club was founded here.
1959 The school was renamed Washington State University.
Three campuses of Washington State University 1989 opened. Washington State University has been offering evening classes in Spokane since 1920, and training pharmacy assistants there. Starting from 1983, Washington State University began to train educational talents in Vancouver.
Famous graduates include cartoonist Gary? Larson, broadcast pioneer Edward? Murrow, the writer Sherman? Alexis and Paul, one of the founders of Microsoft? Allen.
Washington State University's biggest competitors are university of idaho and Washington University. University of idaho's campus is located in Moscow, Idaho, just a few miles from the campus of Washington State University.
The library of this school has a collection of 6.5438+0.56 million books, more than 22,000 periodicals and 2.53 million microfilms.
Featured facilities include: Dong Wen Art Museum, Animal Museum, Anthropology Museum, Natural History Museum, Herbarium, Audio-visual Center, Soil Research Center, Observatory, Large Electron Microscope, Atmospheric Research Center, etc.
At present, there are114 foreign students, accounting for 3.7% of the total number of students in the school. They come from 80 countries and regions, mainly from Asian countries and regions.
This university ranks 47th among the 50 best public universities in the United States, with 52% women, 2065 teachers and 150 undergraduate majors.
The school also set up an honorary college, which is to concentrate particularly outstanding students in high school in the honorary college. There are special professors who are responsible for teaching them. Their courses are taught deeply and quickly. It usually takes three years to complete a four-year course, five years to get two bachelor's and master's degrees, or seven years to get two bachelor's and doctor's degrees. The former usually takes six years, while the latter usually takes eight years.
The quality of freshmen in the 2002-2003 school year is as follows: 7,968 people applied for admission, 6,484 people were admitted, and the admission rate was 8 1%. However, after admission, a large number of people did not register and applied to many universities. The SAT scores of freshmen are far from 965,438+00-65,438+065,438+050.200810000000066. Among them, 43% are students before class14, and 76% are high school students. Their average CPA score is 3.43.
The situation of the whole undergraduate course is as follows: 83.3% is full-time study, 16.7% is part-time study. Girls are 4 percentage points more than boys. This is a common situation among American college students. Among undergraduates, 84% are white, 5% are Asian, 3% are African-American and 3% are Hispanic, 65,438+0% are Indian students and 3.7% are international students. 90% are students from our state, and only 6.3% are students from other states. 49% of undergraduates board at school, and more than half of them solve their own accommodation outside school. Yes 17.
The five most popular majors and the proportion of undergraduates are: 265,438+0% studying business administration, 9% studying media and social sciences, 6% studying pedagogy and 4% studying psychology. The above five majors account for 49% of undergraduates.
This school basically implements mathematics small classes: 49% of the classes have less than 20 students, 37% have 20-50 students, and only 15% have more than 50 students. Small class system can be taught more deeply, the relationship between teachers and students is close, and students are greatly influenced by professors.
Total cost of college students in our school: students in our state 14982 USD/year; Out-of-state students $22,732/year. The total cost of graduate students is $65,438+09,265,438+00/year. Out-of-state students $28,040/year. The total amount of scholarships awarded by the school to students is $65,438+0,250,000/year. About 65,438+0,300 students in the school received grants.
Washington State University offers attractive scholarships to female students with excellent sports performance to attract them to win glory in inter-school sports competitions. This preferential condition ranks in the top five in the United States, so Washington State University ranks among the best in women's education in the country.
Washington is located on the west coast of the United States, where many Yayi people live. In a national electronic media survey, it was rated as one of the 25 most ideal universities for Asian American students.