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Puget Sound offers more than just a degree.

At University of Puget Sound, we offer our students more than just a degree. By creating an environment that opens your mind to different experiences and perspectives, there is no limit to what you can accomplish before, during, and after your time as a Logger.

2,000

undergraduate students from across the country and around the world.

80%

of Puget Sound students are from outside of Washington state.

acre residential campus in the North End neighborhood of Tacoma

1 of 40

Colleges That Change Lives.

average undergraduate class size

75%

of students participate in community service

Senior arts students work on their final projects in the studio.

Facts & Rankings

University of Puget Sound has earned a national reputation for excellent academics, value, campus culture, and more. Puget Sound is the only national independent liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one of just five independent colleges in the Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s most prestigious honor society.

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The logger football game versus George Fox during Homecoming and Family Weekend,

History & Traditions

Since its founding in 1888, the University of Puget Sound has fostered the transformational power of a liberal arts education for generations of students, following an ambitious plan to build an institution of higher education in Washington which would rival the best universities anywhere in the United States. Since our founding, more than 130 years of Logger graduates have benefitted from Puget Sound's well-rounded approach to education.

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Recent Student Outcomes & Successes

Community

Students

Finding Magic at the Moon Festival

She’d led a parade of local children with red paper lanterns to a small bridge overlooking the Sound to close out the Tacoma Moon Festival, an annual event presented by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation and about…

Reacting to the Past

According to the scripts in their hands, they were oligarchs, generals, landowners, citizens, women, and slaves, all locked within the besieged walls of Athens. There was little food left, and the Athenians faced a choice:…

Fully Immersed

Many Tacoma residents may not be aware that one of the country’s largest immigration detention centers is in their city. Evan Eurs ’18 certainly wasn’t before he began an internship with the Northwest Immigrant…

50+

areas of study including a renowned School of Music and an Innovative Business and Leadership Program
100+

study abroad programs in more than 40 countries
90%

full-time, undergraduate faculty who hold terminal degrees in their field

A student attempts to cross a 60-meter slackline that's strung along Todd Field.

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We'd love to meet you! Due to COVID-19 safety guidelines, we are currently offering multiple ways to experience our campus: in-person visits, self-guided walking tours, and virtual sessions.

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