Since 1782 · Chestertown, Maryland

The Original
Leadership College.

Learn What Lasts.

Founded under George Washington's personal patronage — the only college in America with that distinction. Where intellectual depth and career readiness are the same force.

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9:1

Student-Faculty Ratio

62%

Internship Rate

#24

Nationally, Student Satisfaction

244

Years of Legacy

$2M

Student-Managed Fund

Every high school in the country

Someone here already knows your school.

Not a call center and not a form queue. Every high school in the United States is assigned to one person in this office, by name. Tell us where you go and we will tell you who that is — and they will already know what your school offers before they answer.

No email required to see the name.

Twenty-one of them. Find which ones are yours.

Twenty-one things you cannot get at the college down the road.

Not rankings and not a viewbook. Twenty-one specific things a Washington College undergraduate can be handed — a national prize, a working research vessel, a two-million-dollar fund, a 5,000-acre field campus. Tell us one sentence about what interests you and we will name the three that are actually yours.

No email required. Every one of these is open to an undergraduate.

Why Washington College

Not the state. Not the city. The college George Washington founded.

In 1782, George Washington lent his name and personal funds to one college. Not Harvard. Not Yale. A school on Maryland's Eastern Shore built on a radical idea: that the republic needed leaders who could think deeply and act boldly.

Enduring Mastery

Critical thinking. Ethical reasoning. Clear communication. The skills employers keep asking for, and the ones a machine is worst at. Taught by faculty who know your name.

Sophie Kerr PrizeLargest undergrad literary prize in the U.S.

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Rooted Discovery

The Chesapeake Bay is your classroom. The Eastern Shore is your community. Environmental science, marine biology, and sustainability aren't just courses — they're lived experiences.

10+Chesapeake research programs

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Purposeful Ambition

The Hogan Institute for civic discourse. Internships that build real careers. A community small enough to challenge every student to lead, not just attend. Your ambition meets opportunity here.

#24Nationally for student satisfaction

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Concept demo prepared by LeadWorks · Washington College, July 2026. School records are real (NCES CCD + PSS), and program, center and staff details are taken from washcoll.edu. Photography courtesy of the Center for Environment & Society. Counselor names, feeder-school counts and the sample email are invented for this concept, and nothing in it has been arranged with anyone at the college.

For school counselors

You are asked to know four hundred colleges.

Here is ours, without the sales pitch. Tell us where you work and we will stop asking you for things we should already know.

Your high school

What is this student passionate about?

No student name and no email. A student opts in for themselves.

For parents

You are being asked to spend a great deal of money.

Four questions decide this, and we would rather answer the hard one first. Pick whichever is actually keeping you up.

What do you want to know?

And what this page becomes for you

Your own cost sheet, on one page. Your state, your income band, the four-year total rather than the annual sticker, and the discount explained in numbers you can check. Next build
The comparison we are not supposed to publish. Us against the flagship on cost, class size and time to degree. If it favours them for your daughter, you should know that from us. Needs the College
Graduates from your own state, by name. Three of them, five years out, what they do and what they earned their way into. Not a placement rate. Needs alumni records
The question we did not answer here. One box, answered by a person in Enrollment with a name, within a working day. Next build
One email, when the aid picture changes for a family like yours. Not a campaign. A fact, when there is one. Needs Financial Aid

For alumni

Sign in to your alumni home.

We already know who you are. Our job is to prove it without making you do the work.

If we hold no record for you, someone in Advancement takes it from there.

Washington College sign-inSingle sign-on · washcoll.edu

College email address

Password

Lost the password, or lost the mailbox? — it takes a minute and you will not need this address again.

The email you signed in with

Password

Or use your passkey.

First name

Last name while enrolled

Class year

Date of birth

Where should we send your one-time link?

Enter the code

Every route below gets you in. They differ only in how long they take.

Washington College · Office of Alumni Relations
300 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, MD 21620

Dear graduate,

Your one-time code to claim your alumni account is

4 8 2 9 1 7

The code expires in 30 days. If you did not request it, no action is needed and nothing has changed on your record.

First classmate

Second classmate

Both need alumni accounts of their own.

Over to a person.

Write to alumni@washcoll.edu, or send a photograph of your diploma or a transcript, and somebody in Advancement will verify you by hand and set the account up for you.

You are verified. Now make it permanent.

This is the part that matters. Give us an address you control, and you will never have to prove who you are again — not in five years, and not in thirty.

Your own email address

Also set up a passkey on this device, so next time is one tap and there is nothing to remember or lose.

You will not need your washcoll.edu address again.

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