Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was founded in 1834 in the town of Wake Forest and moved to its present Reynolda Campus in 1956. Historically tied to Baptist education, it is now a university with a liberal-arts college and professional schools of law, business, divinity, and medicine.

The undergraduate College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences share the Reynolda Campus with the School of Business, School of Law, and School of Divinity. The Wake Forest School of Medicine and associated hospitals operate on the Bowman Gray campus and with Atrium Health. Graduate applicants cluster in medicine, law, business, biomedical sciences, and a smaller set of arts and sciences doctorates.

About 9,000 students are enrolled, with professional and graduate students forming a large share. International enrollment is moderate. Faculty include clinical staff at the medical school as well as arts-and-sciences professors. Alumni include golfer Arnold Palmer, basketball player Tim Duncan, and political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry.

Graduate degrees include the M.D., J.D., M.B.A., M.Div., and M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. programs. Medical and law study follow professional curricula; arts and sciences doctorates are seminar- and laboratory-based. The calendar is semester-based. Students divide time between the wooded Reynolda Campus and the medical complex in Winston-Salem, a Piedmont manufacturing city.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Wake Forest University lists 64 graduate programs across 21 subjects: 36 master's programs and 13 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, law and health & medical sciences.