About Whitman College

Whitman College is a private innovative arts school in Walla Walla, Washington. Founded as a seminary by a territorial legislative charter in 1859, the speculative became a four-year degree-granting institution and and no-one else its religious affiliation in 1882 and 1907, respectively. It is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and competes athletically in the NCAA Division III Northwest Conference. The scholastic offers 48 majors and 33 minors in the advanced arts and sciences, and it has a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. Whitman was the first studious in the Pacific Northwest to install a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, and the first in the U.S. to require mass exams for graduation.Alumni have standard 1 Nobel Prize in physics, 1 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in the bearing in mind 10 years have conventional 5 Rhodes Scholarships, 62 Fulbright Fellowships, 13 Watson Fellowships and a Marshall Scholarship.

Distinguished alumni add up Nobel laureate Walter Brattain (inventor of the transistor), William O. Douglas (U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1939–75), NASA astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, inventor of the time projection chamber David R. Nygren, Ryan Crocker (U.S. ambassador and Medal of Freedom recipient ), actor Adam West, and Neil Kornze, director of the Bureau of Land Management.

Walla Walla is the largest city and county chair of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. It had a population of 31,731 at the 2010 census, estimated to have increased to 32,900 as of 2019. The population of the city and its two suburbs, the town of College area and unincorporated East Walla Walla, is virtually 45,000.

Walla Walla is in the southeastern region of Washington, approximately four hours away from Portland, Oregon, and four and half hours from Seattle. It is located unaided 6 mi (10 km) north of the Oregon border.