Wilkes University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
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14 Facts About Wilkes University
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Wilkes University was first established in 1933 by Bucknell University under the name Bucknell University Junior College in Wilkes-Barre.
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In 1947, Wilkes University College was instituted as an independent, nondenominational four-year college, with programs in the arts, sciences, and a number of professional fields, as well as numerous extracurricular activities.
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Wilkes University opened the School of Pharmacy in 1996, and in 1999, through a donation from Mrs Geraldine Nesbitt Orr, the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy was established.
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Wilkes University purchased the Wilkes University Towers apartment complex located at 10 East South Street from a private real estate company for $8.
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In 1968, Wilkes University College dedicated the newly constructed Eugene Shedden Farley Library and named it after the college's first president.
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Wilkes University has a 14 to one student to faculty ratio and with over 50 percent of classes having fewer than 20 students per class.
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Wilkes University offers over a dozen programs within its graduate school programs.
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Mabel Scott Wandell and the Sterling Leroy Wandell awards are presented to the woman and man in Wilkes University's graduating class with the highest grade-point averages.
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Wilkes University has an active student media, including a television station within the Karambelas Media and Communications Center, FM radio station WCLH which celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2017, weekly newspaper The Beacon, a literary magazine Manuscript which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2017, and yearbook Amnicola which will celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2018.
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Wilkes University launched the first collegiate marching band in the northeast Pennsylvania region in 2014.
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Wilkes University offers Army ROTC, but the classes are held at nearby King's College.
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Wilkes University wrestling team has won a total of 14 Middle Atlantic Conference team championships.
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Over 60 years Wilkes University has been the host of the Annual High School Mathematics Contest as sponsored by the Luzerne County Council of Teachers of Mathematics .
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