OpenFieldIWU · Bloomington, Illinois, United States
Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) is a top-ranked private national liberal arts university in Bloomington, Illinois, celebrated for pre-med sciences, registered nursing, fine arts, and actuarial mathematics.
IWU exclusively educates undergraduate students, fostering intimate faculty-student collaborative research, guaranteed clinical rotations in top medical centers, and exceptional graduate school and medical school acceptance rates exceeding 80%.
Undergraduate admissions are holistic and test-optional, reviewing high school coursework rigor, cumulative GPA (average 3.8), personal statements, and extracurricular distinction.
Direct-entry CCNE-accredited bachelor's degree offering sophomore clinical start at Carle BroMenn Medical Center and OSF St. Joseph Medical Center.
Elite program preparing students for Society of Actuaries (SOA) professional exams, covering probability theory, financial mathematics, actuarial modeling, and predictive loss statistics.
Intensive laboratory degree training future physicians and research scientists in enzyme kinetics, structural crystallography, recombinant DNA cloning, and NMR spectroscopy.
Prestigious full-time summer research fellowship pairing students directly with faculty investigators to conduct publishable empirical research in STEM and social sciences.
Over 700 hours of direct hospital bedside patient care across emergency medicine, intensive care, pediatrics, and surgical oncology.
Illinois Wesleyan’s highest academic scholarship awarded to two exceptional incoming freshmen who demonstrate transformative intellectual achievement and civic leadership.
President and Professor of Classics
Office of the President and Faculty of Humanities
Dr. S. Georgia Nugent has led Illinois Wesleyan since 2019, previously serving as President of Kenyon College, researching classical literature and the evolutio...
View researcher profile ↗Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Specialist
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Prof. Dr. Brian Brennan investigates protein-protein interaction inhibitors, organic peptide synthesis, and novel targeted anti-cancer pharmaceutical agents....
View researcher profile ↗Director of the School of Nursing and Associate Professor
School of Nursing
Prof. Amber Kujath specializes in orthopedic surgical nursing outcomes, clinical simulation pedagogy, and patient mobility interventions in acute-care medical c...
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