Washington State University is a school with a population of about 19,000 undergrad students at it's
Pullman, Washington campus. It is a very good school and has been voted one of the top public
research universities in the U.S., according to
U.S. News & World Report.
WSU offers some 300 fields of study including more than 150 majors plus many minors, options and certificate programs. The
university is composed of 9 different
schools and
colleges. These are:
The school was founded as the state's land-grant research university. This means that the school must continually do constuction all year round to keep getting money from the state of
Washington.It has campuses in
Spokane, the
Tri-Cities (Richland, Pasco and Kennewick) and
Vancouver. Pullman is one of the largest residential campuses west of the
Mississippi with about half of the student body living in
residence halls, single and family student apartments and
fraternity and
sorority houses.
The town of
Pullman, Washington is quite small, but it is 8 miles away from the
University of Idaho in
Moscow, Idaho. Other than that, it is literally in the middle of nowhere.
The school mascot, Butch, is a
cougar. The school is a member of the
Pac-10 division and usually has a pretty good football team, although the other teams usually aren't that great.