About Wellesley College

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Wellesley College is a private historically women’s open-minded arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a fanatic of the native Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of elite historically women’s colleges in the northeastern United States. Wellesley’s triumph of $2.2 billion is the largest out of anything historically women’s colleges and the 49th largest among whatever colleges and universities in the United States in 2019.

Wellesley is house to 56 departmental and interdepartmental majors spanning the avant-garde arts, as skillfully as more than 150 student clubs and organizations. Wellesley athletes compete in the NCAA Division III New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference. Its 500-acre (200 ha) campus was expected by Frederick Law Olmstead and houses the Davis Museum and a Botanic Garden.

Admissions is exclusively restricted to women and nonbinary people. It adopted a more transgender inclusive admissions policy in 2015. Notable alumnae and affiliates increase two U.S. Secretaries of State; the first female nominee for President of the United States from a major party; noted academics, journalists, writers, politicians, diplomats, activists, businesspeople, filmmakers, and entertainers; and recipients of Emmy, Tony, Academy, and Peabody Awards, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Wellesley /ˈwɛlzli/ is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Wellesley is share of Greater Boston. The population was 27,982 at the mature of the 2010 census. Wellesley College, Babson College, and a campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College are located in Wellesley.