2024-2025
Your generosity transforms ideas into impact, supporting learners, leaders, thinkers, and doers in their search for solutions to some of today’s greatest challenges.
You are expanding access to an exceptional education.
Thanks to scholarship support, Cora Johnson is attending her “dream school” and pursuing a major she is passionate about, biomedical engineering. Last summer, Cora completed an internship at a medical device design startup. She gained practical experience and learned new skills that align with her career goal of working on devices that have the possibility to save lives.
There are no words to describe how incredibly grateful I am for your contribution to my education. Thank you for believing in a farm girl from rural Missouri. I truly couldn’t be here without your help.
Cora Johnson, McKelvey Engineering Class of 2027
Through unrestricted scholarship gifts, you allow WashU to attract the brightest students from around the country and the world. This essential support helps ensure that outstanding students can attend WashU and achieve their fullest potential.
Your support continues to help bring the best and brightest minds to WashU, ensuring they can thrive.
Fall ’24
48%
of first-year students received financial aid
Fall ’23
42%
of first-year students received financial aid
You facilitate world-class research.
As a top U.S. research university, WashU is home to wide-ranging expertise with thousands of research projects happening at any given time. Your support creates a culture of excellence that allows WashU investigators to collaborate on monumental challenges facing the community in St. Louis and beyond.
From Alzheimer’s disease to air pollution to childhood depression, investing in research at WashU pays out in dividends: creating healthier lives for all and communities that flourish.
You are preparing future-ready leaders.
Your dedication to supporting tomorrow’s leaders has had a life-changing impact on the students of today. Amelia Letson, AB ’25, graduated in May with a degree in political science and a profound new framework for how to lead.
I arrived here with a top-down idea of leadership, but I’ve learned that leadership isn’t the same as taking charge. Leadership can be as simple as listening or asking someone how you can support them. That’s been one of the best parts of my WashU experience — learning new approaches to being a leader.
Amelia Letson, AB ’25
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin has identified leadership development as a top priority for WashU. With your support, the university has greatly expanded leadership education and opportunities for students. Individualized and group programs are designed to foster leaders of character and capability.
Thank you!
Through your support of WashU this past year, you are transforming the lives of students, empowering world-class faculty and staff, and enhancing the community in St. Louis, across the country, and throughout the world. We are so grateful for the opportunity to create a brighter future together with you.
