Westminster College (Missouri)

Westminster College (Missouri)

Westminster College is a private, residential, undergraduate college with a curriculum based on the liberal arts and an emphasis on developmental experience. Located in Fulton, Missouri, the College was established in 1851 as Fulton College. The National Churchill Museum (formally known as the Winston Churchill Memorial) is a national historic site located on campus and includes the Church of St Mary, Aldermanbury. The church, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1667, was rebuilt on the campus to commemorate Sir Winston Churchill, who made his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at the college gymnasium in 1946. As a bookend to history, Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech in 1992, declaring the end of the Cold War. In recent years, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Wałęsa, and James A. Baker have participated in the College's international lecture series. The College is dedicated to teaching excellence and an education centered on key values (integrity, fairness, respect, and responsibility) that prepare graduates to become leaders of character.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Westminster College in the Top 150 schools for undergraduate education. It also placed Westminster College as 4th among liberal arts colleges for its proportion of international undergraduate students and as one of the Ten American Colleges with the most students in fraternities. Westminster College was also ranked “Best in the Midwest” by The Princeton Review and recognized in Forbes Magazine as one of the nation’s top colleges. Westminster was also ranked the Top Liberal Arts College in Missouri and 53rd nationally by Washington Monthly.

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