Our Model & Mission
The world needs insightful, experienced, and passionate problem solvers. We’re ready to help you be one. At Warren Wilson College, you don’t just learn it. You do it.
You’ll have an active education, grounded in practice.
Here, you’ll explore real-world solutions to the issues you care about, tackling challenges head – and hands – on.
You’ll amplify your classroom experiences through:
Work on a campus crew Hands-on community engaged courses Internships Research & Senior Projects
Experiential Learning
These experiences are guaranteed for every student in every major. This comprehensive approach to learning engages the mind through the heart and the hands.
Experience forges confidence.
Our Work Program and internship requirements set you apart when you’re applying for jobs — you’ll already have a resume full of accomplishments. And our community engagement courses add service experience while providing you an opportunity to advocate for causes you care about.
Better Career Prep
We know that the marketplace demands the broad-based skills developed with a college education. But we also know that’s not enough. By the time you graduate, you will have: solved problems in a professional environment, developed your leadership on a team, calculated the impact of your decisions in a workplace, and delivered on your commitment to your supervisor and colleagues.
Our students can and do change the world. When you graduate, you won’t say you learned how to do it. You will say you’ve done it.
Our college-wide Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) for 2025 through 2030 is geared toward strengthening career outcomes for all students.
“I met friends, teachers, and mentors here who became my family. I ran cross-country here and worked with the pigs on the farm here and fell in love here and found the world’s greatest writers and mentors. I’ve grown older now, but my husband and I both are quite certain that our time at Warren Wilson made us into fuller versions of ourselves.”
Erin Pesut, Creative Writing
