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A student at Xinjiang Normal University in China has a question for our Foreign Student Series. Akbar Mamat wants to go overseas after graduation and would like some information about Washington University.
Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a medium-sized school in the Midwest. It has almost 11,000 students. 12% this last school year were international students, mostly graduate students.
The university has schools for law, medicine and social work. It also has a business school, a school of design and visual arts and a school of engineering and applied science. But more than 70% of courses are taught through the Arts and Sciences program.
The new school year that begins this fall will cost $52,000 for undergraduates. That includes twelve months of living expenses
estimated at $17,000.Graduate tuition differs by program. Tuition for the Master of Social Work program, for example, will cost $27,000 in the coming year. The Master of Business Administration program will cost about $38,000.
The university offers financial assistance to international students, including first-year students, but says its resources are limited.
Scholarships are available. The university also offers a monthly payment plan to spread out the cost of tuition. And it offers loan programs.
International students in the United States generally cannot receive federal student loans. But they may be able to take out private loans, as many American students do. The student loan industry is in the news right now. Investigations are looking at questionable dealings between colleges and lenders.
Washington University in Saint Louis was named Eliot Seminary when it opened in 1853. Later the name was changed to honor the first American president, George Washington.
But other schools share the name Washington, including the University of Washington and George Washington University. So in 1976 Washington University added the words "in Saint Louis" to its name.
