Attached to this Description Education Illinois Wesleyan University is a private, coeducational school that selectively enrolls 2,000 undergraduates. Founded in 1850, Illinois Wesleyan consists of a College of Liberal Arts, School of Nursing, and College of Fine Arts with professional Schools of Art, Music, and Theatre Arts.
All students have individual faculty advisers.
Additional counseling is available for career and graduate school placement. Illinois Wesleyan is a nationally recognized liberal arts university dedicated to personalized education. More than 80 percent of the students live on campus. Thirty-six states and thirty nations are represented. On-campus activities include an International Society, Model UN, student senate, professional and honorary societies, intramural and intercollegiate sports, national social fraternities and sororities, political and religious groups, service groups, activities in the arts, a radio station, and several publications.