William Jewell College

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William Jewell College
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Motto	Deo Fisus Labora
Established	1849
School type	Private, Baptist
President	Dr. David Sallee
Location	Liberty, Missouri, USA
Campus	Suburban
Enrollment	1,274 undergraduate, No graduate students
Faculty
Mascot	Cardinals
Athletics	NAIA, HAAC
Official website	www.jewell.edu

William Jewell College is a private, four-year liberal arts college of 1,274 undergraduate students located in Liberty, Missouri. It was founded in 1849 by members of the Missouri Baptist Convention. The college is named after Dr. William Jewell who donated the land the college was built on. In the 2005 edition of the Princeton Review, Jewell was named the Best Bargain among American private colleges.

1 Academics
2 Athletics
- 2.1 Varsity sports
3 Greek Life
- 3.1 Fraternities
- 3.2 Sororities
4 Campus
5 See also
6 External links

Academics

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Jewell offers the distinctive Oxbridge Honors program, the only program in the United States offering a full curriculum of tutorial-based instruction in conjunction with a year of study in England. This highly personalized approach to education, with many opportunities for personal connections with faculty members, combines the British and American approaches to education. This writing-intensive program extends over all 4 years of college, with the junior year spent at either Oxford or Cambridge.