,·Private (Religious Society of Friends / Quaker)·Est. 1870
“A Quaker liberal arts college where peace, agriculture, and hands-on learning meet on a 1,300-acre rural Ohio campus.”
Wilmington College is a small private liberal arts college founded in 1870 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in rural Wilmington, Ohio, set roughly halfway between Cincinnati and Columbus in Clinton County. With about 1,100 students, the college is intentionally residential and community-scaled: nearly two-thirds of undergraduates live on the 80-acre main campus, freshmen are required to live in the residence halls, and decision-making across trustees, faculty meetings, and student groups follows a Quaker consensus model rather than majority voting. Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, integrity, simplicity, and community show up in everyday college life — students and faculty often address one another by first name, and the on-campus Kelly Religious Center houses the Wilmington Yearly Meeting that selects the Board of Trustees. Academically, Wilmington pairs traditional liberal arts with unusually strong applied programs. It is the only private college in Ohio offering a full agriculture degree, supported by 1,248 acres of farmland, on-campus livestock and crop operations, an Equine Center, and the Withrow Center for Agricultural, Life and Physical Sciences. Other signature programs include athletic training (housed in a 41,000-square-foot Center for Sport Sciences with on-site clinical offices), education, business, equine business management, and exercise science. The college's Peace Resource Center — founded in 1975 by Quaker peace activist Barbara Reynolds — is the only U.S. academic center wholly devoted to the human experience of nuclear war and holds the largest Hiroshima-Nagasaki Memorial Collection outside Japan, anchoring a peace-and-social-justice thread that runs through the curriculum and the annual Westheimer Peace Symposium. The Fightin' Quakers compete in NCAA Division III in the Ohio Athletic Conference, fielding 18 varsity sports. The college emphasizes social mobility — U.S. News has repeatedly ranked it in the top tier of Midwest schools on that metric — and offers a low 14:1 student-faculty ratio with hands-on, experiential learning across more than 80 academic programs.
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Official SourceRolling — Fall start
No formal deadline; rolling admissions with a recommended August 1 fall-entry target.
Rolling — Spring start
December 1 recommended for spring entry.
International — Fall start
International applications for August (fall) entry due by June 1.
International — Spring start
International applications for January (spring) entry due by November 1 of the prior year.
The deep admissions playbook beyond the headline acceptance rate — round-by-round breakdowns, nationality data, requirements, and contact paths.
Domestic
$31,654 – $32,762
/yr
Out-of-State / Intl
$20,000
/yr
Beyond the sticker price — every named scholarship, the financial aid policy, need-aware notes, and a personalized net-cost estimate.
How life on campus actually feels — clubs, sports, traditions, housing realities, and how the school integrates with its city.
Housed in the Withrow Center and supported by a 1,248-acre academic farm, livestock operations, and an Equine Center — the only private Ohio LAC offering a full agriculture degree.
Long-standing teacher preparation programs grounded in Quaker values of community service, with placements across rural and urban Ohio schools.
Anchored by the 41,000-sq-ft Center for Sport Sciences, which co-locates classrooms with four clinical medical offices so athletic-training, occupational therapy, and pre-med students gain hands-on experience without leaving campus.
Career-oriented business programs with applied tracks in agriculture, equine, and sport industries; communication arts integrates digital media with public-affairs and advocacy work.
Distinctively Quaker liberal-arts offerings including Peace Studies, Race/Gender/Ethnicity Studies, and a Food Policy & Agriculture Advocacy track in Political Science. Home to the Peace Resource Center and Quaker Heritage Center.
4 years
The only full agriculture degree at an Ohio private college, with concentrations in Agricultural Business, Agronomy, Animal Science, Agricultural Education, Communications, and Resource Conservation & Regenerative Agriculture. Students learn on a working 1,248-acre crop and livestock farm and the Withrow Center labs.
4 years
A clinically intensive program based in the 41,000-sq-ft Center for Sport Sciences, which houses on-site medical and rehabilitation offices so students rotate through real clinical settings without leaving campus. Strong pipeline into BOC certification and graduate health-professions programs.
4 years
An interdisciplinary program rooted in Wilmington's Quaker tradition, anchored by the Peace Resource Center — the only U.S. academic archive devoted to the human experience of nuclear war — and the annual Westheimer Peace Symposium that brings global peace leaders to campus.
4 years
A rare blend of equine science and business taught at the on-campus Equine Center, preparing graduates for careers in equine operations, sales, breeding, and the wider horse industry.
Where alumni go after graduation — top industries, grad-school continuation, and the qualitative outcomes story.
Sticker price (annual, out-of-state): $32,082
Net-cost estimate is US-resident-only — international applicants are typically excluded from need-based aid at most schools and should treat the sticker price as the planning baseline.
