Year after year, generous alumni, parents, families and friends provide unrestricted support that is essential to the WashU student experience—and the ongoing growth and development of our students.

Every gift, large and small, makes an immediate impact on programs, services, and resources that support our students as they pursue excellence in all they do. Gifts may be made via our online giving form to a priority most meaningful to you.

WashU Student Experience Fund

Supports the highest priorities of a best-in-class student experience by providing essential resources utilized at the discretion of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.

Career Services

Supports reimagined career services that will improve career readiness, bolster faculty collaboration and deepen employer engagement.

Dialogue Across Difference

Dialogue Across Difference (DxD) supports workshops, programs, and training that promote free speech through dialogue. Through the DxD framework, students learn tools to engage in productive conversations, build an understanding of diverse perspectives, and develop self-awareness to flourish among those with differing priorities and ways of seeing the world.

First-Generation or Limited-Income Services

Supports programs for first-generation or limited-income students that provide guidance and real-world experiences to prepare them for success at WashU and beyond.

Student Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Supports programs, services and curricula that provide students the tools to build diverse perspectives, engage in productive dialogue, and navigate the world with confidence and self-awareness.

Student Health & Well-Being Fund

Supports the health and well-being of our students through counseling and psychological services, promotion and prevention services, WashU Cares, Habif Medical Services and disability resources.

Student Professional Opportunities

Supports fully-funded pre-professional opportunities for students, including internships, research positions, co-ops and micro-internships.

Student Success Fund

Provides students with financial need the resources to cover emergency and educational enrichment expenses, ensuring their successful and robust progression at WashU.

Athletics/W Club

Strengthens the student-athlete experience and empowers our highly successful Division III athletics programs by ensuring our talented student-athletes have resources necessary to excel as they train, compete and lead.

Contributions of $1,000 or more qualify for recognition in WashU’s William Greenleaf Eliot Society, which is comprised of many of the university’s most generous and committed supporters. Annual Fund gifts at the Eliot Society level represent a significant source of unrestricted funds for the Division of Student Affairs.

For questions or more information, please contact University Advancement at 314-935-3911 or studentaffairsadvancement@wustl.edu.

How to give

When you choose to support our students, there are many ways to give and make a difference.