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The OWU Connection is our signature program that connects your classroom learning with real-world experience. Faculty mentors will work with you to build your own pathway of OWU Connection experiences, including internships, research, travel, creative projects, and service, all with a purpose: to prepare you for the causes, careers, and graduate school opportunities that you want to pursue.
Every Ohio Wesleyan student – in every major – participates in the OWU Connection. It is the foundational part of OWU's academic program that ensures every OWU student will graduate with hands-on experience and a global perspective.
You will work with professors and advisors to find and sharpen your interests and goals. And they will help you develop your own OWU Connection projects that will connect you with those goals.
You could take a travel class to the Galapagos Islands to walk in the footsteps of Darwin. Or spend a semester internship with an artist in New York City. Or intern in the financial or tech industry. Explore countless options with the OWU Connection Discovery Engine.
Real-world learning through the OWU Connection helps you develop the knowledge, skills, and experience that employers and grad schools value most: the ability to think critically, analyze complex problems, work in diverse teams, and communicate effectively. Every year, OWU graduates connect their jobs or grad school placements directly to their OWU Connection experiences.
You will be prepared to face complex challenges in real-world settings. You will be ready to make a difference.
The OWU Connection is the ultimate combination of mentorship, guidance, insightful learning, and and real-world experience. Our goal is to help you prepare to tackle the most important challenges in your career and in the world. And we have four goals for you - and many ways for you to fulfill them: You will Think Big, Do Good, Go Global, and Get Real.
You will integrate knowledge across disciplines. Work closely with your professors to explore the connections that link the arts, sciences, and humanities in solving real-world challenges. OWU offers 70 majors, and about a third of OWU students graduate with multiple majors. You also can work with faculty mentors to explore research projects in one discipline or across diverse majors.
You will make the world a better, more caring place. Service has always been an OWU tradition and one of our highest values. Every year, OWU students devote thousands of hours to serving others. You might promote healthy cooking in our community, help repair homes damaged by hurricanes, or volunteer in urban schools. You will connect learning and purpose.
You will build a diverse and global perspective. Get your passport ready. You will have many opportunities to expand your classroom learning by immersing yourself in another culture. And on campus, you'll be living in a community that celebrates diversity and is enriched by students from around the world.
You will practice the application of knowledge. Every OWU student is guaranteed a variety of opportunities to put theory into practice—to take what you've learned in the classroom and put it to work in real-world settings. You can take on an internship. Or work with a professor to create a unique project—and get OWU funding to help carry it out.
OWU graduates leave with knowledge, experience, and a hunger to change the world—a combination that excites employers and graduate schools. Our graduates land in top graduate programs, get good jobs, and have the far-reaching perspectives to keep on learning and the broad-based skills to move up the ladder.
OWU Connection Experience: Internships at Vesco Medical in Columbus and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Pictured: Chase Dusek, Finance Economics
OWU Connection Experience: Summer cancer research at Baylor College of Medicine
Pictured: Davis Graham, Microbiology
OWU Connection Experiences: Three internships: Louisiana Department of Revenue; Worthington Industries in Columubus; and Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Pittsburgh.
Pictured: Jacob Dodds, Accounting & Finance Economics major: ""Several of the programs and resources OWU offers have been invaluable to my success in obtaining and succeeding in my internships."
OWU Connection Experience: Operations Intern at People in Need of Delaware County, recipient of Ohio's Charles J. Ping Student Service Award for her "outstanding leadership and contributions to community service or service-learning."
Pictured: Anna Fender, Social Justice and Women's & Gender Studies
OWU Connection Experiences: Independent research
Pictured: Olivia Beauchamp, Microbiology
OWU Connection Experience: Received OWU Diversity, Equity and Inclusion grant to create a campus chapter of First Generation Investors, a nonprofit that teaches high school students in underserved communities the power of investing and provides them with real money to invest.
Pictured: Reese Little, Business Administration, Marketing
OWU Connection Experience: Summer Science Research searching for components of the gravity-sensing systems in plants.
Pictured: Regina Campbell, Psychology and Botany
Mental Health Specialist, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
Pathway to a Career
Princeton University, Ph.D. Program in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Pathway to Graduate School
