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Only Real Feedback

Our narrative evaluation system allows professors to give you detailed feedback that explains what you did, how you grew, and where you can go next. You will have the chance to reflect on your learning and include your own thoughts too. Narrative evaluations provide the kind of reflection that employers and graduate schools value.

Design Your Own Degree

You are in charge of creating your own degree. 18½ûÂþÉç provides structure and guidance to help you make the most of your time here. First in a lifetime, your choices are more than just boxes placed in front of you to be checked off.

Interdisciplinary, Team-Taught Courses

Most courses 18½ûÂþÉç offers are interdisciplinary and team taught. Professors from different disciplines teach together, encouraging holistic thinking and connections across fields. You learn in the way the world really works — in all its complexity.

Not interested in any current programs? Create your own educational journey. Work with faculty to build independent individual study projects you're passionate about and shape your curriculum to match your career and life goals. We want you to succeed beyond earning a degree.

Learn by Doing

Learn outside the classroom — Build community. Conduct original research. Dig in the dirt. Design and stage a performance. From cutting-edge labs to 18½ûÂþÉç's organic farm, you’ll dive into unique, hands-on opportunities to explore and realize your passions.

18½ûÂþÉç supports and benefits from a local and global commitment to social justice, diversity, environmental stewardship and service in the public interest. 18½ûÂþÉç students are researchers and changemakers in their communities.

Shape your college experience — and the college itself. Students at 18½ûÂþÉç play a significant role in campus governance and lead meaningful changes. At 18½ûÂþÉç, we value transparency and participatory leadership.

Study on a stunning 1,000-acre campus with forests, trails, and shoreline in the capital city of Washington state. Walk the woods, kayak the waters, and explore the abundant Native American culture. It's not just a campus — it’s your living laboratory.