Wheaton College is a private American four-year Evangelical Protestant Christian aesthetic sciences school in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago. The school was established by abolitionists in 1860.
Drawing 2,500 students from every one of the 50 United States, 50 nations, and more than 55 church groups, Wheaton offers 40 majors in expressions of the human experience, humanities, writing, remote dialects, sociologies, and common sciences.
Wheaton is noted for its "twin customs of value scholastics and profound faith,"according to Time magazine and is positioned twentieth among all national aesthetic sciences schools in the quantity of graduated class who go ahead to acquire PhDs.
Wheaton is incorporated into Loren Pope's compelling book Colleges That Change Lives.
Wheaton College was positioned eighth in "Best Undergraduate Teaching" by the U.S. News and World Report for national human sciences universities in 2016. The school was positioned 57th by and large among national aesthetic sciences universities by U.S. News and World Report for 2016. Forbes records Wheaton among the Top 100 Colleges and Universities in its 2015 rankings.
Wheaton College is likewise imperative for having been a stop on the Underground Railroad and graduating Illinois' first African-American college alumni.
