WashU offers a multitude of experiential programs, allowing you to apply your knowledge in real-world settings.

From tackling real business challenges at the Olin Business School’s Center for Experiential Learning to advocating for social change through the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, WashU empowers you to gain practical skills, make a difference, and discover your passions through hands-on experiences. 

Center for Experiential Learning

Olin Business School

Through courses offered by the Center for Experiential Learning, students apply their academic work and managerial insight to business challenges. Organizations benefit from leading-edge practices and strategic management solutions as Olin students demonstrate their talent, skills, and value in a real-time business context. Active faculty supervision ensures a rich learning experience and powerful results.

Clinical Education Program

School of Law

Building on five decades of impact, WashU’s Clinical Education Program is considered among the best in the country. It is continuously innovating to meet both the professional practice needs of today’s students and the community’s need for legal services. Launched in 1973, the program now offers 19 distinct professional practice opportunities across the country and internationally.

First-Year Programs

Arts & Sciences

The First-Year Programs are designed to jump-start your intellectual curiosity and guide you as you discover your academic passions. From interdisciplinary Ampersand programs to focused First-Year Seminars, you’ll delve into captivating topics, engage in hands-on experiences, and connect with a supportive community ready to help you thrive at WashU.

Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement

The Gephardt Institute offers a wide range of civic learning and engagement opportunities that bring people together to effect change at any scale, large or small. Explore programs, courses, and events to develop your civic skills, engage with the St. Louis community, collaborate on addressing pressing social issues, and find ways to bring your civic passions and ideas to life.

Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program

School of Medicine

The Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) provides a cohesive and supportive infrastructure to foster clinical and translational research training and career development for predoctoral students, house staff, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and faculty.

Office for Socially Engaged Practice

Sam Fox School

The Sam Fox School’s Office for Socially Engaged Practice is a hub and a resource for collaborative, engaged practices in art, architecture, and design. We bring our faculty and students together to work with communities in St. Louis and around the world. From long-standing programs, like the University City Public Art Series and the Alberti Program, to newer initiatives like CityStudioSTL, the office facilitates collaborative partnerships to support education, outreach, and innovation in community-based art and design.

Overseas Programs

WashU study abroad programs, offered through Overseas Programs, give you the opportunity to acquire the broad cultural knowledge, languages, and practical skills necessary to participate fully in a global society. For most, studying abroad for a summer, a semester, or a year is career enhancing and even life transforming. 

Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Skandalaris Center serves students, faculty, staff, and alumni from all levels and disciplines. Through a variety of programs and courses, the center supports WashU entrepreneurship by empowering our community to explore and execute solutions to address the world’s problems and meet local needs through innovation. 

Tyson Research Center

Tyson is the environmental field station for WashU and a resource for faculty, staff, and students at WashU and beyond. Together with our laboratory and experimental facilities, Tyson’s 2,000-acre landscape provides opportunities for research and teaching. We encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and integrate educational opportunities into faculty research for authentic research apprenticeships.