Home > Basics > Colleges

Roberts Wesleyan College

Overview

Roberts Wesleyan College is a vital part of Rochester NY’s exceptional mix of educational opportunities. With nearly 2,000 students and a tradition of excellence since 1866, Roberts Wesleyan is a dynamic leader among American liberal arts colleges with a Christian worldview.

Roberts Wesleyan offers over 50 undergraduate programs, with graduate programs in education, school psychology and counseling, counseling in ministry, Health Administration, Nursing Administration, social work, and Strategic Leadership. Roberts also offers undergraduate degree-completion programs for working adults in nursing (classroom-based) and organizational management (classroom and online). Northeastern Seminary on the Roberts campus offers Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Theology, and Doctor of Ministry degrees.

Roberts Wesleyan is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the National League of Nursing, the Council for Social Work Education, and the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.

For more information on Roberts Wesleyan College, please contact the Office of Admissions at 585-594-6400 or 800-777-4RWC or by email at admissions@roberts.edu. Visit our website at www.roberts.edu.

Our Programs

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS & MINORS

• Major

- Minor

•   Accounting and Information Management (AIM)

  - Accounting

•   Adolescence Education

•   Art Education (Visual Art Education)

•   Art-Graphic Design

  - Art-Studio

  - Biblical Studies

•   Biochemistry

• - Biology

•   Biology with concentration in med. technology

• - Business Administration

• - Chemistry

•   Childhood Education and Special Education (Elementary Education)

• - Communication

• - Comprehensive Science

•   Comprehensive Social Studies

• - Computer Science

•   Contemporary Ministries

• - Criminal Justice

•   Elementary Education (Childhood Education and Special Education)

•   Engineering (with RIT; RPI or Clarkson)

• - English

•   Fine Arts-Art

•   Fine Arts-Music

  - General Science

• - History

•   Humanities

• - Information Systems Management

  - Jazz

• - Management

• - Mathematics

• - Marketing

  - Ministry

• - Music

•   Music Education

•   Music Performance-Instrument

•   Music Performance-Piano

•   Music Performance Voice

•   Nursing

•   Organizational Management

  - Piano Pedagogy

  - Philosophy

• - Psychology

•   Region/Philosophy

  - Religious Studies

•   Secondary Education (Adolescence Education)

  - Spanish

•   Special Education and Childhood Education (Elementary Education)

  - Social Welfare

•   Social Work

• - Sociology

  - Theater

•   Visual Art Education (Art Education)

  - Women’s Studies

PRE-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS

Pre-Dentistry

Pre-Law

Pre-Medicine

Pre-Pharmacy

Pre-Physical Therapy

Pre-Veterinary Medicine

3-2 Engineering

OTHER AREAS OF PREPARATION

Library Science

Medication Technology

DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Science

Master of Arts: Counseling in Ministry

Master of Arts in Theological Studies*

Master of Divinity*

Master of Education in Adolescence Education

Master of Education in Childhood Education

Master of Education in Childhood-Special Education

Master of Education in Literacy

Master of Education in Music Education

Master of Education in Special Education

Master of Science in Management

Master of Science in School Counseling

Master of Science in School Psychology

Master of Social Work

Doctor of Ministry*

*Through Northeastern Seminary

Our Mission

As a community of learners committed to historic Christianity, Roberts Wesleyan College seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will help transform society.

Our Heritage

Roberts Wesleyan College, originally Chili Seminary, was founded by Benjamin Titus Roberts in 1866. Roberts was an evangelical Methodist minister and the first General Superintendent of the Free Methodist Church.

Continuing in its Christian heritage and its dedication to “education for character,” Roberts Wesleyan College remains committed to the mission of integrating a Christian worldview and learning.

Our Educational Philosophy

Roberts Wesleyan College serves traditional and non-traditional students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The College’s educational philosophy is built on the assumption that education must address the whole person as a physical, psychological, social, rational, and spiritual being. An education at Roberts Wesleyan College presupposes both the complexity of the world and the diversity of human nature. No one method of inquiry or verification is regarded as the sole route to knowledge, nor does one set of skills provide sufficiently for a life of service.

A Roberts Wesleyan education is one in which students investigate the aesthetic, historic, philosophic, scientific, and professional disciplines. Academic pursuit is strengthened by the College’s historic Christian concern for the communication of human values and the development of the whole person. Through membership in a community of learners, students are encouraged to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will prepare them to be thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented persons who will have a transforming impact on society.