Wake Forest University
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Motto | Pro Humanitate (For Humanity) |
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Established | February 3 1834 |
Type | Private |
Endowment | $1 billion (As of May 2006) |
President | Nathan Hatch |
Faculty | 636, excluding medical school |
Undergraduates | 4,263 |
Location | Winston-Salem, NC, USA |
Campus | Suburban, 340 acres[1] |
Colors | Old Gold and Black |
Nickname | Demon Deacons |
Mascot | The Deacon |
Affiliations | ACC |
Website | www.wfu.edu |
Wake Forest University is a university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina . It was founded in 1834 in the eastern North Carolina town of Wake Forest. The university was moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. A private school for both men and women, it has been a university since 1967.
Its components are the Undergraduate College and the Wayne Calloway School of Business & Accountancy, the School of Law, Wake Forest School of Medicine, the Babcock Graduate School of Management, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the Divinity School.