University of Puget Sound - Education facility details

University overview for University of Puget Sound

Kind of institute is private institution, established 1888, with no affiliation to religious institutions. The academic calendar is organized as semester and has 2,604 students capacity. This college is located in a suburban location and university's endowment is 201,767,000.The admission fee estimate is $ 40 and the application deadline is february 1. See Extra Curriculars details for University of Puget Sound It is considered more selective and fees is around $ 30,425 while room or board is USD 7,670. For schooling grants (as explained in Students loans without cosigner) use the provided contact info to inquire University of Puget Sound about available grants that can be available.

Services at University of Puget Sound

The essential services provided are nonremedial tutoring, placement service, health service, health insurance, other. Remedial services offered are study skills. It offers counseling on: minority student, career, personal, veteran student, academic, older student, psychological, birth control, religious.

The career services offered counseling are: co-op education, on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training, otherFirms that hire most graduates are Microsoft, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Russell Investment Group, Japan Consulate, Peace Corps, Hitachi Consulting, Teach for America, Ames International, Guy Carpenter, Quellos.

Library and special facilities of University of Puget Sound

It does have a library, and is member of a library consortia. Provides 506,419 books, serial files.The current number of serial subscriptions is: 10,732. Has 356,705 microforms, audiovisuals and 18,980 eBooks. Has other facilities: University Archives, Special Collections (History of Science), Student Diversity Center; Abby Williams Hill Digital Painting Collection and relating to museums or other special academic buildings on the Campus offers: Art gallery, sculpture building (completed September 2003), natural history museum, greenhouse, transmission and scanning electron microscopes, spectrophotometer, X-ray diffractometer and spectrometer, microcomputer lab, sedimentology lab, thin section preparation equipment, stereoscopic and petrographic microscopes, a computerized plotting/digitizing board and an image analysis system, portable seismograph, gravimeter, proton precession magnetometer, Global Positioning System, electrical resistivity meter, rock and mineral collection, exercise science lab, observatory, paleomagnetic & X-ray Lab, physiology labs, Spectrometer Gas Chromatography Mass Spectral Detector (GCMS), Automated DNA Sequencer, Arboretum, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) mass spectrometer.

Technology focus and facilities in University of Puget Sound

This college does not require a computer course to be undertaken, and an own computer is not necessary. There are 314 computer available for students.It does offer Internet access and it does not provide e-mail addresses.Computers available in: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center. The number of available wired connection in the library (except computer labs) is 70. The classrooms have 44. In the laboratories the number is 240. Additionaly other 20 wired online accesses are offered.University of Puget Sound does provide wireless connections.

The suggested OS is Microsoft.The percent of hostings found at college for OnlineInternet access is 100%. Students are allowed publish personal web sites and there is an internet registration system. Security services provided on the Campus are: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc).

Life at Campus and School Housing for University of Puget Sound

The % of undergrads that live in college-owned houses is 60%. The percentage of male undergrads that live in Fraternities is 22%. The % of female undergrads staying at Sororities is 23%. The % of students staying on campus on weekends is 90%.

The college does offer students housing. And the amount of students living in college-owned housing is 60%. Housing is available for all unmarried students. The School does provide assistance if housing is not available. The types of available housings are coed dorms (59%), women's dorms (5%), sorority housing (8%), fraternity housing (8%), special housing for disabled students (0%), other housing options (20%). The university-owned percentage of housings units is 42% singles, 54% double rooms, 3% triples, 0% apartments, 1% uncategorized.

The college owns 77 buildings The amount of housing units that have a sprinkler system is 14%. Among buildings, 22% have fire alarms. In total 100% are equipped with high speed internet access. The total campus size is 97 acres.

Transportation (distances in miles) to University of Puget Sound

  • Nearest airport to University of Puget Sound: Sea-Tac (25)
  • Closest train station to University of Puget Sound: Tacoma (5)
  • Nearest bus station to University of Puget Sound: Tacoma (4)


Public transportation does not serve the campus. Students are not allowed to have cars in the campusand 46% of students do have a vehicle with them.

Student Employment, Reserve Officers Training Corps as well as Rules at University of Puget Sound

The school does provide jobs and the percent of undergraduates that worked on campus in 2005/2006 is 25%, the average wage was 2,000 and freshmen are suggested not to work in their first term.

Army ROTC: Offered at cooperating institution (Seattle University @ Pacific Lutheran University), Navy ROTC: Not offered, Air Force ROTC: Not offered.

Legal alcohol is allowed in the faculty.Other regulations: class attendance policies set by individual instructors, honor code, hazing prohibited, other.

Campus most famous events: Diversity Theme Year, First Friday Log Jam, Homecoming, Campus Music Network Concerts, Cultural Events Series, Hawaiian Luau, Pierce Lectures, Film and Theatre Society, Foolish Pleasures Student Film Festival, Infinite Monkeys Theatre Festival. For more sport informations visit the site of University of Puget Sound. You may also search other universities in Washington as the available data varies for each university.

University of Puget Sound address:
1500 N. Warner Street
Tacoma, WA 98416

Website: http://www.ups.edu
Email: admission@ups.edu




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