Experience Sewanee - APRIL 14, 2023

Experience Sewanee is open to all admitted students and features an in-depth look at Sewanee student life. This visit program will allow you to meet other admitted students, explore campus, and meet professors in departments that align with your interests.

Registration coming soon!

9:00-9:30 a.m. Arrival and Registration, Fulford Hall
9:35-9:55 a.m. Welcome, Alan Ramirez, Associate Provost & Dean of Admission and Financial Aid
10-10:50 a.m. Optional Activities
11-11:50 a.m. The First Year Experience
12-1 p.m. Lunch
1-1:45 p.m. Academic Programs & Student Services Fair
1-2:30 p.m. Residence Hall Tours (optional)

If you are not able to join us for our live event, please take a look at our pre-recorded videos below. 

 

Welcome to Sewanee

Alan Ramirez
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Alan Ramirez welcomes you to Sewanee!

Explore Campus

Because all of this adds up to a college experience you just can’t have anywhere else on earth. Click through this document to see where you'll have class, eat, and play on central campus.

Get Digital

Use this digital map to watch videos, see photos, and learn where your experience can take you on our 13,000-acre Domain.

Take a Hike!

Bran Potter
Join one of Sewanee's most beloved professors for a hike to one of our favorite views.

Sewanee Outing Program

The Sewanee Outing Program (SOP) gives students the chance to explore Sewanee’s Domain, the surrounding region, and wilderness areas across the United States.

The Domain

At Sewanee, you’ll find 13,000 acres of opportunity at your fingertips. You will have opportunities to observe, grow, preserve, measure, manage, and restore the many natural resources of our living laboratory. Your woodland classroom awaits.

Abbo's Alley

Martin Knoll
Take a stroll through Abbo's Alley with Professor Martin Knoll to visit a historic spring.

Integrated Program in the Environment

Sewanee's Integrated Program in the Environment is one of the premier collections of environmental offerings in the country.

University Farm

Our model teaching farm inspires the adoption of life-affirming food systems.

Only at Sewanee

Only at Sewanee
Learn about some of the Sewanee experiences you won't find anywhere else.

Student Life

24
Varsity sport teams!

Students participate in intercollegiate, club, and intramural sports. The Tigers compete in 24 varsity sports in NCAA Division III.

110
Universities recognized; Sewanee is one of them.

The University of the South is one of 110 institutions across the country that received the 2020 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.

80
student organizations

With more than 80 student organizations, including leadership opportunities, club sports, publications, honor societies, and social justice groups, you'll be sure to find at least one thing (or 20) you want to do. And if you can't find one that fits your style, create your own!

Academics

Sewanee's core liberal arts curriculum means you’ll dig deep to get a fuller understanding of the world and your place in it.

Arts at Sewanee

Art asks us to focus on technical, aesthetic, and critical themes. It invokes response, recalls emotions, draws on memory, and encourages us to act. At Sewanee, you'll have the opportunity to participate in 7 art departments and programs. 

Sewanee Cares

Sewanee Cares is how we promote well-being. It’s a framework for our expectations, policies, and practices in managing mental and physical health and the learning environment.

Student Panel
Tune in to see six current Sewanee students sharing their experiences!

Living & Dining

98%
of students live on campus.

During your first year, you will live in one of our 19 residence halls. Later, you can also chose from five language houses and several theme houses.

40+
Students work at Stirling's Coffee House

Our quirky, yellow home employs more than 40 Sewanee students. We train every order-taker, cookie-baker, and coffee-maker with great care. Our baristas pull the finest espresso shots and steam the velvetiest milk.

20%
of all fresh foods

are sourced locally from our community & surrounding areas for Sewanee Dining.

Lunch with Chef Rick

Chef Rick
An unlimited meal plan? A+ rating for the past five years? Learn all about Sewanee Dining from the stupendous Chef Rick Wright.

Living

Ninety-eight percent of Sewanee students live on campus. Accommodations range from traditional doubles and singles to an assortment of suite options. First-year students live in residence halls while sophomores, juniors, and seniors have additional options like language houses and themed living communities.

Dining

Sewanee is on top of a mountain, but that doesn't mean you'll be culinarily isolated. Chef Rick Wright oversees four on-campus dining options that are complemented by several local spots that serve craveable bites, too. After all, we know that you hunger for more than knowledge.

Have Questions?

CONNECT WITH A CURRENT STUDENT

Interested in learning more about academics, student life, or what makes Sewanee so special? Connect with one of our student volunteers through your preferred mode of communication or sign up for a live Zoom tour or for a virtual panel to hear from the real experts!

CONNECT WITH ADMISSION & AID

Feeling lost? Your admission counselor is available to you during every step of the admission process. Questions about applying for need-based aid? Reach out to the Office of Financial Aid. We are all here for you. We promise.

The Sewanee Pledge
Plan to do something cool. We'll cover the rest.

Sewanee provides funding for an approved summer internship or research fellowship, a semester-long study abroad opportunity at no additional tuition cost, and the ability to graduate with one major in four years. Of course, you will have to do your part. If you meet Sewanee’s academic and social expectations, these opportunities will be provided.

Our Promise to you
Programs of Study
38 Majors, 44 Minors, 3 Certificates & More

Our small classes mean that your voice will be heard, your contribution will be expected, and your opinion will be listened to (and disagreed with, and challenged, and seen from a different perspective, and pushed in a new direction, and considered—and you know what? Maybe we’re both right. See how it works?).

Explore Majors & Minors
Campus Life
Welcome movers, shakers, dreamers, explorers, and soon-to-be lifelong friends.

We're a community where everyone has a place and there's a place for everyone. Group study? We'll bring our notes. Rock climbing? We're geared up and ready. Jam session? Sure, we'll play with you. Whatever you want to do, at Sewanee, you'll never have to go it alone. Unless you need your space. Then, we totally get it.

You belong here