Wofford College

136 full-time faculty teach at the college, 92 percent of whom have earned a doctorate or equivalent terminal degree. The FTE faculty to student ratio is 1:11.[3]

Wofford offers academic majors in a variety of areas including 26 majors.[13]

The college also offers pre-professional programs in Teacher Education (secondary certification), Dentistry, Medicine, Law, Ministry, Engineering and Veterinary Science. The college's Army ROTC program was established in 1919.[14]

The college's Office of International Programs helps students select from over 200 study abroad programs in 59 countries. Wofford consistently ranks in the nation's top ten in the Institute of International Education Open Doors Survey, which is based on a comparison of the number of students earning credits abroad in a given year to the number of students in the graduating class. Wofford's 2009 score was 93%, compared to the Lincoln Commission national average of 9% of graduates earning credits abroad.[15] The college has had six Fulbright English Teaching assistantships in the past four years as well as two Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships.[16] In 2012, Rachel Woodlee was selected as Wofford's sixth Rhodes Scholar.

Students participate in a wide variety of service, pre-professional, religious, social, and other student organizations. Student publications at the college date to the first literary magazine, first published in 1889. The student newspaper, the Old Gold and Black, is published every other week, and the yearbook, The Bohemian, is published each spring. Delta Phi Alpha, the national German honorary society, was founded at Wofford, as was Beta Club, an honorary society prominent in American high schools.

In 1941, the college was awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society. This was the first chapter at a private college in South Carolina.[7]

Wofford has a variety of student service organizations on campus, including the Bonner Scholars,[19] Twin Towers, Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, and ONE.[20]

Wofford was included on the 2010 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, published by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Washington Monthly compared 23 of 252 Top Liberal Arts Colleges contributions to the public good in three broad categories: Social Mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), Research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and PhDs), and Service (encouraging students to give something back to their country). In the magazine's 2010 ratings, Wofford finished 23rd among 252 Top Liberal Arts Colleges, and was number 1 in South Carolina. Newsweek identified Wofford as one of the most "service-minded" campuses in the country, ranking the college second in listings released in September 2010. Six recent Wofford graduates have been selected for the Teach For America Corps.

Student government rests in the Campus Union, with executive officers and an assembly elected by the student body. Students serve on various campus committees and represent the student body before various committees of the Board of Trustees.

Student conduct is governed by the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities, a document written by an Interim project in 1970-71. The code is enforced by a judicial commission consisting of elected and appointed members. An honor council enforces the student honor code in academic matters.

The college recognizes 14 chapters of national fraternities and sororities, with 42 percent of men and 53 percent of women participating.

Fraternities include Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Pi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Nu, and Kappa Alpha Psi.

The sororities of the National Panhellenic Council include Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, and Zeta Tau Alpha.

In each of the years from 1901 through 1904, two women graduated from Wofford.[21] In 1964, Wofford became the first private college in South Carolina to desegregate voluntarily with the admission of Albert Gray.[22]

• Brenton Bersin – free agent wide receiver in the NFL
• Fisher DeBerry – retired head football coach and inductee into the Columbus Football Hall of Fame
• Robert Galloway – tennis player
• Eric Garcia – basketball player for the Kataja of the Korisliiga
• Forrest Lasso – soccer player for the FC Cincinnati in USL Pro
• Brad Loesing – American-German basketball player for the s.Oliver Würzburg in the Basketball Bundesliga
• Fletcher Magee – basketball player
• William McGirt – professional golfer on the PGA Tour
• Danny Morrison – President of the Carolina Panthers NFL football team
• Ameet Pall – former defensive end who played in the Canadian Football League
• Kasey Redfern – free agent punter in the NFL
• Jerry Richardson – founder of the Carolina Panthers, former wide receiver for the Baltimore Colts
• Nate Woody – defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech

• George Dean Johnson, Jr. – President of Johnson Development Authority, Spartanburg, SC
• Jude Reyes – billionaire co-chairman (with his brother J. Christopher Reyes) of Reyes Holdings[23]

• Craig Melvin – anchor and correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News
• Wendi Nix – anchor and reporter for ESPN

• Paul S. Atkins – former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Ibra C. Blackwood – Governor of South Carolina (1931–1935)
• Michael J. Copps – former Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
• Samuel Dibble – member of the US House of Representatives and first graduate of Wofford College (Class of 1856)
• Henry Franklin Floyd – Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Donald Fowler – former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Clyde H. Hamilton – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Olin D. Johnston – former United States Senator, South Carolina (1945–1965); Governor of South Carolina (1935–1939, 1943–1945)
• C. Bruce Littlejohn – Associate Justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1966–1984); Chief Justice (1984–1985)
• Thomas Gordon McLeod – Governor of South Carolina (1923–1927)
• Costa M. Pleicones – Associate Justice, later Chief Justice, of the South Carolina Supreme Court since 2000
• Dennis W. Shedd – Judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Ellison D. Smith – former United States Senator, South Carolina (1909–1945: 17th longest-serving senator in history)
• John G. Stabler – Associate Justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1926–1935); Chief Justice (1935–1940)
• Charles Albert Woods – Associate Justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1903–1913); Judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1913–1925)

• William H. Willimon – retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church, North Alabama Conference

• William Preston Few – first president of Duke University and the fifth and last president of its predecessor, Trinity College
• James Kirkland – second and longest-serving chancellor of Vanderbilt University
• James A. Knight – psychiatrist, theologian, and medical ethicist; first dean of the Texas A&M School of Medicine

• William Wallace Duncan (Class of 1858) – Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• Francis L. Garrett – Chief of Chaplains of the U.S. Navy
• Marion J. Hatchett – liturgical scholar in the Episcopal Church who helped to shape the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
• Albert C. Outler – theologian and philosopher