Why The Women's College?

The Women’s College of the University of Denver (TWC) blends a collaborative, engaging learning community with a challenging academic experience. TWC students are diverse:

• reflecting 40% women of color
• various income levels and cultural backgrounds
• many are the first in their families to attend college
• some are first generation U.S. citizens
• most juggle multiple priorities.

Our students and faculty have a passion for education and their passion co-creates a stimulating and rewarding environment. Moreover, students graduate from degree and certificate programs with academic knowledge and skills for personal and professional success.

Why study at the University of Denver?
The University of Denver (DU) is the Rocky Mountain Region’s premiere educational institution with a strong reputation for quality, innovation and scholarship. DU offers the benefits of a small, private college and the access and resources of a large research institution.

Why choose women’s education?
Studies have consistently shown that women attending a single-sex college report higher incidences of success than other women attending co-educational institutions. In fact, women’s college students around the country report:

• Greater Diverse Interactions and Understanding about Diversity
• Greater Support for Success
• Greater Student-Faculty Collaboration
• Greater Academic and Intellectual Pursuits
• Greater Desire to Contribute to their Communities
• Greater Opportunities for Engagement and Integrative Learning
• Greater Development of Higher Order Thinking Skills such as Analytic Problem Solving
• Greater Ability to Better Understand Themselves and Others.
  

Mission

The Women’s College of the University of Denver educates women to boldly lead in the communities where they live, work and engage.

Vision

The Women’s College of the University of Denver is recognized as a responsive and innovative leader in women’s education where the intellectual partnership between faculty and students ignites personal, professional and global change

Values

Shared values play an important role at The Women’s College of the University of Denver. Values drive behavior and inform decision-making. The Women’s College believes that it is through the implementation and execution of its values that it will be able to achieve its goals and ultimately its vision. These values are innovation and creativity, inclusive excellence, and being knowledgeable, responsive, and ethical change agents.