Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis (nicknamed Wash. U. or WUSTL) is a private research university fifteen minutes west of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It includes schools of arts & sciences, law, business, medicine, social work, design & visual arts, and engineering. In the 2004 U.S. News & World Report rankings, its undergraduate program was tied for ninth in the nation; in the 2005 list, it was ranked 11th. WUSTL's medical school is ranked third in the nation and the social work school is ranked second. Tuition for both in-state and out-of-state undergraduates is $31,100.00.

Well-known alumni

• Clark M. Clifford (LLB 1928), U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968-69; former presidential advisor
• Jim Conzelman (BS 1917), professional athlete; enshrined in three Halls of Fame, including pro-football's hall
• Ken Cooper (AB 1977), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; national editor of the Boston Globe
• Phoebe Couzins (LLB 1871), first woman U.S. marshal; leader in the women's suffrage movement
• Alan J. Dixon (LLB 1949), U.S. Senator, 1981-93
• John Dubinsky (AB 1965, MBA 1967), former CEO of Mark Twain Bancshares
• Charles Eames, designer, architect, filmmaker
• Hugh Ferriss (B.Arch 1911, M.Arch 1928), architect
• Sam Fox (BSBA 1951), founder, chairman, CEO, and owner of Harbour Group LTD
• Don Frahm (BSBA 1953), retired chairman and CEO of the Hartford Insurance Group
• David R. Francis (AB 1870), St. Louis mayor 1885-89; Missouri governor 1889-93; U.S. Secretary of Interior 1896-97; U.S. Ambassador to Russia
• Bernard Fuchs (MFA 1954), painter and illustrator
• John Gardner, novelist
• Henry Hampton (AB 1961), filmmaker; producer of PBS documentary "Eyes on the Prize"
• Earle Harbison (AB 1948), former president and COO of Monsanto
• Lee Harrison III (BFA 1952, BS 1959), engineer; Emmy winner for invention of computer animation
• Moses W. Harrison II (JD 1958), chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
• Lynne "Angel" Cooper Harvey (AB and MA), producer of Paul Harvey News
• George Hellmuth (BArch 1928, MArch 1931), architect; cofounder of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
• Julian Hill (BS 1924), chemist; co-inventor of nylon
• A.E. Hotchner (AB 1940, JD 1940), biographer and novelist (Papa Hemingway, King of the Hill)
• Fannie Hurst (1909), writer and social activist
• Michael Isikoff (1974), journalist
• Josephine Winslow Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
• George Kassabaum (B.Arch 1947), architect; former president of American Institute of Architects; cofounder of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
• Joyce Ladner (MA 1966, PhD 1968), sociologist and activist
• Max Lerner (MA 1925), intellectual and author
• Stanley Lopata (AB 1935), founder and former chairman of Carboline
• Walter Massey (MA 1966, PhD 1966), president of Morehouse College
• John F. McDonnell (1967), retired chairman and CEO of McDonnell Douglas
• W. Patrick McGinnis (MBA 1972), president and CEO of Nestle Purina Petcare Company
• Edward Shepherd Mead (AB 1936), playwright ("How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying")
• David Merrick (AB 1934), Broadway producer
• Condé Nast (LLB 1897), publisher of Vogue
• Daniel Nathans (1954), Nobel laureate in medicine
• H. Richard Niebuhr (MA 1917), theologian
• Oliver Nelson (student 1954-7), jazz musician and composer
• Gyo Obata (BArch 1945), architect; cofounder and chairman of Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum
• J.D. Parran (MA 1971), jazz musician
• Mike Peters (BFA 1965), Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist; creator of "Mother Goose and Grimm"
• Harold Ramis (AB 1966), film actor, writer and director
• Charles Van Ravenswaay (BA 1933, MA 1934), historian
• Eugene B. Redmond (MA 1966), poet, critic, civil-rights activist
• Carolyne Roehm (BFA 1973), fashion designer
• Abram L. Sachar (AB 1920, MA 1920), founding president of Brandeis University
• Peter Sarsgaard (BA ?), actor
• William Shaw (MBA 1972), president and COO of Marriott International Inc.
• Sol Spiegelman (PhD 1944), molecular biologist
• Louis B. Susman (JD 1962), vice chairman of Citigroup Global Markets
• Jim Talent (BA 1978), U.S. Senator, 2003-present
• William G. Tragos (AB 1956), former chairman and CEO of TBWA Advertising, Inc.
• Raymond Tucker (BS 1920), mayor of St. Louis, 1953-1965
• George Herbert Walker, (LLB 1897), founder of Walker Cup in golf; grandfather and great-grandfather of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, respectively
• William H. Webster (JD 1949), former director of the FBI
• Mary Wickes (AB 1930), stage and film actress
• Tennessee Williams (student 1936-37), playwright
• Olly Wilson (BA 1959), composer
• Arnold Zetcher (BSBA 1962), chairman, president & CEO of Talbot's
• George Zimmer (BA 1970), founder of Men's Wearhouse