Foreign Student Series: A Look at Washington University in St. Louis (1/2)

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 11000 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" class="hjdict" word="applied" target=_blank>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 52000 dollars for undergraduates. That includes 12 months of living expenses estimated at 17000 dollars.

Graduate tuition differs by program. Tuition for the Master of Social Work program, for example, will cost 27000 dollars in the coming year. The Master of Business Administration program will cost about 38000 dollars.