Wesleyan University

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The Wesleyan University ( Wes or simply Wesleyan ) is a private university in the U.S. state of Connecticut in the United States, with a campus in Middletown. It was founded in 1831 by Methodists, was named after John Wesley, 1937 but was completely independent of the Methodist Church.

The Wesleyan is among the best universities in the United States. In the university rankings regularly achieved top positions. In 2006, she finished third in the U.S. News & World Report ranking ranked 10th in the U.S. liberal arts colleges.

At Wesleyan University about 3,350 students are enrolled and it employs 375 employees (as of 2013). The Wesleyan Foundation decreed 2005 on funds of about 570 million U.S. dollars.

The students run their own newspaper, The Argus. The Wesleyan is a member of the Little Three Little Ivies or college sports, with the Williams College and Amherst College. Your sports teams The Cardinals call themselves. The official school colors are red and black.

Famous graduates of Wesleyan University are the screenwriter Zak Penn, the writer Robert Ludlum and Robin Cook, the athlete Bill Belichick, the musicians of the band MGMT Indietronic, the director Michael Bay and the psychologist David McClelland and Elliot Aronson. At Wesleyan University studied the German journalist Domenika Ahlrichs that since August 2007 the editor of the Open Full Story until the end of 2009 and later deputy editor of Time Online was. The long-standing issues of the day presenter Ulrich Wickert studied in 1962 as part of a Fulbright scholarship for one year at Wesleyan.