unitid 179867 · St. Louis, MO · private nonprofit 4-year · suburb (large)
Washington University in St Louis
Private research university in Missouri, US
- founded
- 1853
- enrollment 2023
- 18,292
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- washu.edu/
- motto
- “Per veritatem vis”
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in the St. Louis metropolitan area, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for the first U.S. president George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth and Medical campuses. It comprises 10 schools and offers more than 150 undergraduate, 80 master's and professional, and 50 doctoral degree programs. As of 2024, Washington University enrolled 16,399 students representing all 50 U.S. states and more than 110 countries. wikipedia rev 1364459965 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
12%
4th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,857
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
18%
undergrads on Pell grants
16th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
94%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$88,488
99th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$21,786
after aid, aided students
47th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$86,182
after entry, Title IV students
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$17,500
13th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $1,716 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k16%
- 30-48knot reported
- 48-75knot reported
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $88,696
- First-generation students
- 11%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $65,790
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 4.9× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 440 | — | — |
| Applied Mathematics. | 346 | — | — |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 319 | $61,499 | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 291 | $159,514 | — |
| Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies. | 236 | — | — |
| Law. | 230 | $153,068 | — |
| Social Work. | 204 | $67,062 | — |
| Computer Science. | 181 | — | $15,500 |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 169 | — | $15,450 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 150 | $190,811 | $19,250 |
| Computer Science. | 142 | — | — |
| Economics. | 118 | $79,278 | $14,110 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,370 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (1,454) · university teacher (302) · writer (101) · politician (98) · lawyer (71) · botanist (61) · physician (61) · mathematician (60)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. Medicine 1971
- Daniel Nathans Medicine 1978
- Edwin G. Krebs Medicine 1992
- William E. Moerner Chemistry 2014
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Tennessee Williams
101 wikis · Public domain
William E. Moerner
57 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Daniel Nathans
53 wikis · CC BY 3.0 de
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
50 wikis · Public domain
Harold Ramis
49 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Dan Simmons
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Peter Sarsgaard
42 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Phyllis Schlafly
40 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Robert Guillaume
40 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Richard Ford
36 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Robert Culp
34 wikis · Public domain
Robert L. Behnken
33 wikis · Public domain
Also recorded: Edwin G. Krebs, Shulamith Firestone, Marilyn vos Savant.
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1364459965), CC BY-SA 4.0.