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Whitman College
Whitman College, founded in 1859, is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the Pacific Northwest, and its small size — fewer than 1,700 undergraduates — combined with a location in Walla Walla, a small city increasingly known nationally for its wine industry, gives the college a distinctive rural-but-culturally-active setting. The college's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college west of the Mississippi, funding need-based financial aid and research opportunities that let Whitman compete for top applicants against better-known East Coast liberal arts colleges. Whitman's Semester in the West program, an off-campus academic program that takes students on an extended field-based study of public lands and environmental policy across the American West, reflects the college's particular strength in environmental studies and its Pacific Northwest regional identity. The college's close faculty-student ratio and its reputation for sending a high proportion of graduates on to competitive graduate and professional programs have made Whitman the clear top choice among students specifically seeking a small liberal arts college experience within Washington State.
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Washington State University
Washington State University, founded in 1890 as the state's land-grant institution, has built its strongest academic reputation around agriculture, veterinary medicine, and viticulture — a natural fit given the university's location in the Palouse, one of the most productive wheat-growing regions in the country. WSU's wine science program has grown alongside Washington State's emergence as the country's second-largest wine-producing state, and the university's Viticulture and Enology program gives students direct access to research vineyards used to study the specific growing conditions of the Columbia Valley and other major Washington wine regions. The university's College of Veterinary Medicine is one of the oldest and most respected west of the Mississippi, and WSU's remote Pullman, Washington location, far from any major metropolitan area, has fostered a self-contained agricultural-research-university culture built around the land-grant mission the school was founded to serve. WSU's Cougars athletic programs and its rivalry with the University of Washington, contested annually in the Apple Cup football game, give the university a statewide athletic identity that, combined with its agricultural research strength, has made it Washington's clear second major public university behind UW.
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