Program areas at PLU
Academic instruction: plu offers 40 majors and 60 minors, as well as graduate and professional programs in business (marketing analytic and business administration), creative writing, education, marriage and family therapy, kinesiology, and nursing. The University helps more than 2,737 students from all faiths and backgrounds discern their vocations through coursework, mentorship and internships at world-class puget sound-area businesses and institutions. Plu seeks students from every possible background, all religions, all races, all socioeconomic groups, all sexual orientations, all ages, from all over the world. For the 2023-24 academic year, 54 percent of incoming first-year students are first generation, coming from families where neither natural nor adoptive parents received a baccalaureate degree; 54 percent self-identify as students of color; and 40 percent are pell grant-eligible. The first american University to have study away classes on all seven continents simultaneously, plu also is the first private University on the west coast to receive the prestigious senator paul simon award for campus internationalization. Plu hosts an emmy award-winning medialab; a macarthur award-winning detachment of army rotc; and more than 80 clubs and activities, including 18 varsity athletic teams in the northwest conference of ncaa division iii. The University consistently ranks among the top 20 in u.s. news and world report's best universities in the west. Usnwr recently named plu as the third best value school in the west region, as well as the fifth best college for veterans. The University has produced more than 108 fulbright scholars since 1975.
Academic support and student services: at plu, students are offered many support services, including academic assistance and advising, accommodations and accessibility services, career connections and campus ministry. Highlights of 2022-23 included the strengthening of the center for student success, a mission-aligned, student-centered reimagining of academic support that takes a holistic view of student success. The center is the hub of that directs students to appropriate units on campus for help with academic and personal support and resources. Support services include: academic advising & degree planning, tutoring & assignment help, career planning, financial services, personal health & wellness, resources by affinity group (commuter students, transfer students, international students, first in the family [fif] students, lgbtq-identified students, students of color, and undocumented students. Students.) In addition, military student outreach has now been added to the outreach offices to connect veterans to peers, professional development and other resources.
1) operations and maintenance of plant including depreciation, interest expense and amortization. 2) public service.
Auxiliary enterprises:
Plu offers nine residence halls; eight
Traditional style residence halls and
One apartment-style complex. During the
2022-23 academic year, on campus
Residential students served 1134
Students in the fall and spring
Semesters. Plu delivered dining
Services to students, faculty, staff
And the neighboring community. We are
Dedicated to providing nutritionally
Sound and sustainably sourced meals at
Our modern dining hall, at a noted
Restaurant open to the public and
Campus community, and through several
Convenient quick-serve options located
Across campus. Dining services is a
Campus leader in sustainable
Initiatives, offers nutrition education
And culinary adventure classes,
Available to everyone.
Plu hosted over 27,000 guests
Attending approximately 60 non-plu
Conferences, camps and events during
2022-2023. Conferences range in size
From one-day trainings to overnight
Retreats; education conferences; music
Concerts; sports camps and clinics.
Plu's hospitality services and campus
Restaurants, including the catering
Department, provides meals for most
Events as well as plu functions. Plu
Rented residence hall rooms and campus
Meeting spaces to nearly 3000 guests
Over the span of 2 months during the
Summer conference season.
During the 2022-2023 fiscal year
Nearly 50 external events were
Cancelled due to covid-19, which
Would have brought an additional
15,000 guests to campus.