Appendix I: WSU Campuses | Presidential Search

WSU PULLMAN: Classic college-town experience

The Pullman campus is the original land-grant university for Washington State, established in 1890. The 1,742-acre Pullman campus serves as home to nearly 16,500 students, as well as the university administration. WSU Pullman is home for most of the university’s student organizations and supports the full range of academic disciplines at WSU. The campus serves as the headquarters for seven of the university’s ten academic colleges and is the only residential campus in the WSU system, with 40 percent of students living in residence halls, university-owned apartments, or fraternity and sorority houses. It is a bustling hub of research and creative activity centered in an agricultural and rural setting.

WSU Pullman celebrates a strong connection to its community, and serves as the largest employer in Whitman County, with nearly 5,000 permanent employees. As the flagship campus, WSU Pullman is home to Cougar Athletics, as well as numerous galleries, performance venues, and museums dedicated to art, anthropology, zoology, and other topics.

WSU SPOKANE: Home to the health sciences

Established in 1989, WSU Spokane is the university’s 48-acre urban health sciences campus and serves as the hub for educating the state’s future generations of health professionals. Located in downtown Spokane’s University District, the campus is home to WSU’s human health sciences colleges, the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Students can pursue undergraduate, professional, and graduate-level programs at WSU Spokane, including DNP, MD, and PharmD degrees and six PhD programs. Additionally, the campus operates programs in Yakima through a partnership with the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.

Central to the mission of the WSU Spokane campus is ensuring students are equipped with specialized and comprehensive training to pursue careers in the dynamic and continually evolving healthcare industry, with a particular focus on rural and underserved communities. The campus features clinical spaces, healthcare simulation facilities, wet labs, and classroom spaces with the latest instructional technology.

With $41.5 million in direct research grant expenditures in FY 2023, the campus also houses bench, translational, and clinical research. Key focus areas include autism, Native and rural health, drug delivery and safety, neurological disease, and sleep.

WSU TRI-CITIES: Career-connected learning

WSU Tri-Cities is located on 200 acres along the banks of the Columbia River in the southeastern part of the state in the growing Tri-Cities. WSU Tri-Cities is purposefully located in a hub for industry and agriculture and is part of the Tri-Cities Research District, which includes the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and an assortment of high-profile companies and organizations. It is centrally located in Washington wine country and near an assortment of production farms and facilities for crops, livestock and food packaging corporations. It is also located directly down the street from the Hanford Nuclear Site.

With a focus on energy, environment, and agriculture, the campus delivers career-connected learning and innovative research that addresses economic and social challenges. WSU Tri-Cities serves more than 1,400 students by offering 50-plus undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It also has the most diverse student body of all WSU campuses.

WSU Tri-Cities is leading the way in wine research; addressing the demands for clean energy; and testing sustainable aviation fuels. It is home to the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center; the Institute for Northwest Energy Futures; and the Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory, built in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

WSU VANCOUVER: Big-school resources, small-school environment

Located on 351 scenic acres in the southwest Washington/Portland metro area, WSU Vancouver offers stunning views of Mount St. Helens and Mount Hood. The campus provides 26 bachelor’s, eight master’s, and three doctoral degrees, with additional Ph.D. programs available through the Pullman campus with local studies. The university features state-of-the-art facilities across seven colleges: Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences; Arts and Sciences; Business; Education; Communication; Nursing; and Engineering. As the only four-year research university in southwest Washington, research focuses include water resources, climate change, sustainability, social justice, and health equity.

WSU Vancouver is recognized for its equity work, having received two Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) awards. More than 80% of students take advantage of some form of financial aid, and 49% pay no out-of-pocket tuition due to federal and state grants. The average student age is 25, and most balance work and additional responsibilities while pursuing their degrees.

WSU Vancouver drives regional economic growth through partnerships with local businesses, schools, and nonprofits. The award-winning Business Growth Mentor & Analysis Program supports small business development and offers real-world experience to students. The Future Leaders Project provides underserved students with C-Suite internships. Ninety-five percent of graduates remain in the region to live and work.

WSU EVERETT: Real-world experience, small class sizes

Located about 30 miles north of Seattle, WSU Everett offers upper-division and graduate education in high-demand degree programs to prepare students for the jobs of the future.

Among the programs offered are data analytics, cybersecurity, education leadership, engineering, hospitality business management, and integrated strategic communication. The campus also serves as a clinical campus for the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

WSU Everett is located in an award-winning, state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2017 close to the Everett waterfront. The campus enrolls more than 200 students.

WSU GLOBAL: 100% online,100% WSU

WSU Global Campus extends the reach of Washington State University, serving nearly 3,600 students worldwide with online undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs. These programs, many of which have earned national recognition, cover diverse fields such as accounting, data analytics, human development, strategic communications, and criminal justice.

Since 1992, WSU Global Campus has been delivering the university’s world-class faculty and academic programs to students using cutting-edge technology and innovative teaching methods, bringing the classroom to life in an online format.

Our holistic student experience features student government, career and financial services, high-touch student support, and engaging Cougar Connections programming, ensuring our online students are fully integrated into our vibrant, supportive, and dynamic online learning community.

Beyond degree programs, WSU Global Campus offers a variety of non-credit continuing education opportunities, including seminars, workshops, conferences, trade expositions, and online certificates.