University Attributes

Puget Sound is a highly selective liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. It's a place where people come together - to learn, to make lasting connections, to plunge into a sea of ideas, and to begin to scale the challenges of the world ahead. An intellectual atmosphere, an energized academic community, a beautiful campus in a vibrant city, and a depth of opportunities to reach out, connect, and explore, Puget Sound is the result of a unique confluence of the elements.

The Academic Program

Curriculum

* Four-year core curriculum in the liberal arts tradition
* More than 40 majors, minors, and interdisciplinary programs
* 1,200 courses offered annually

Degrees Available

• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Arts
• Master of Arts
• Bachelors
• Masters

Subject Areas

Experience Required

no

Application Process Involves

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Letters of Reference
• Transcript
• Written Application

Post Services Include

• Alumni Network
• Job and Internship Network

University of Puget Sound's Mission Statement

The University of Puget Sound is an independent predominantly residential undergraduate liberal arts college with selected graduate programs building effectively on a liberal arts foundation. The University, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction. The mission of the University is to develop in its students capacities for critical analysis, aesthetic appreciation, sound judgment, and apt expression that will sustain a lifetime of intellectual curiosity, active inquiry, and reasoned independence. A Puget Sound education, both academic and co-curricular, encourages a rich knowledge of self and others, an appreciation of commonality and difference, the full, open, and civil discussion of ideas, thoughtful moral discourse, and the integration of learning, preparing the University's graduates to meet the highest tests of democratic citizenship. Such an education seeks to liberate each person's fullest intellectual and human potential to assist in the unfolding of creative and useful lives.

Year Founded

1888