I was there for a week, attending a conference at their Winston-Salem campus, having flown down there from Washington DC - a short trip of just over an hour. It's a private liberal arts college, and the faculty-student ratio for the whole college is 1:10, which is obviously really good. Most of the student I met were historians/language students, and I have to say the standard was generally high.
The campus is independent of the nearby town, set in several acres of woodland. Its a very pleasant place, every inch a picture-book American university. In fact in reminded me a little of UVA Charlottesville, though not as old and - because of the relative isolation - very few amenities beyond what's on campus. I suppose most students have cars for precisely this reason - it did feel a little isolated to me. Coming from Britain, it also felt a bit white, ie. I didn't see too many non-white faces there, which made it appear a tad homogenous and made me wonder whether it was a rather conservative place. However, I wouldn't want to go on record as saying anything too strong on that front - it may just as well have been pure circumstance, and my experience in this regard was in no way representative of the college as a whole or its ethos. I'm sure it is in no way discriminates on these grounds, but perhaps it does attract more students from certain backgrounds than others. Also, MBA programmes tend to be more diverse, attracting a greater range of students from all over the world. I see that at Wake Forest's Babcock School of Management, 21% of students are classified as being of foreign origin (according to the Economist). That's a little low compared with most top schools in Europe and the US.
I was there for a week, attending a conference at their Winston-Salem campus, having flown down there from Washington DC - a short trip of just over an hour. It's a private liberal arts college, and the faculty-student ratio for the whole college is 1:10, which is obviously really good. Most of the student I met were historians/language students, and I have to say the standard was generally high.
The campus is independent of the nearby town, set in several acres of woodland. Its a very pleasant place, every inch a picture-book American university. In fact in reminded me a little of UVA Charlottesville, though not as old and - because of the relative isolation - very few amenities beyond what's on campus. I suppose most students have cars for precisely this reason - it did feel a little isolated to me. Coming from Britain, it also felt a bit white, ie. I didn't see too many non-white faces there, which made it appear a tad homogenous and made me wonder whether it was a rather conservative place. However, I wouldn't want to go on record as saying anything too strong on that front - it may just as well have been pure circumstance, and my experience in this regard was in no way representative of the college as a whole or its ethos. I'm sure it is in no way discriminates on these grounds, but perhaps it does attract more students from certain backgrounds than others. Also, MBA programmes tend to be more diverse, attracting a greater range of students from all over the world. I see that at Wake Forest's Babcock School of Management, 21% of students are classified as being of foreign origin (according to the Economist). That's a little low compared with most top schools in Europe and the US.
