Wake Forest University

Demon Deacons may sound like a weary clergyman's nightmare but at Wake Forest, it's something to cheer about. Wake Forest University (WFU), home of the Demon Deacons, is a private liberal arts institution that operates through about half a dozen colleges and schools: law, medicine, arts and sciences, business and accountancy, management, and divinity. WFU provides more than 35 majors and enjoys a low student-to-faculty ratio (11-to-one). Total enrollment is about 7,100 students, which might explain how the university is able to give a laptop computer to every undergraduate. WFU was established in 1834 in Wake Forest, North Carolina; it moved to its present location in Winston-Salem in 1956.