University of Puget Sound Services

The Basics

Basic services offered: nonremedial tutoring, placement service, health service, health insurance, other
Remedial services: study skills
Counseling availability: minority student, career, personal, veteran student, academic, older student, psychological, birth control, religious

Career Potential

Career advising services: co-op education, on-campus job interviews, internships, resume assistance, career/job search classes, alumni network, interest inventory, interview training, other
Percent of graduates employed after 6 months: N/A
Percent of graduates employed after 1 year: N/A
Percent of graduates employed after 2 years: $N/A
Main employers of graduates: Microsoft, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Russell Investment Group, Japan Consulate, Peace Corps, Hitachi Consulting, Teach for America, Ames International, Guy Carpenter, Quellos

Campus Resources

Library on campus/close promixity?: Yes
Library collaboration present?: Yes
Number of books available: 506,419
Number of subscriptions: 10,732
Number of microforms: 356,705
Number of audiovisuals: 17,063
Number of E-books: 18,980
Description of library facilities: University Archives, Special Collections (History of Science), Student Diversity Center; Abby Williams Hill Digital Painting Collection
Museums in proximity: Art gallery, sculpture building (completed September 2003), natural history museum, greenhouse, transmission and scanning electron microscopes, spectrophotometer, X-ray diffractometer and spectrometer, microcomputer lab, sedimentology lab, thin section preparation equipment, stereoscopic and petrographic microscopes, a computerized plotting/digitizing board and an image analysis system, portable seismograph, gravimeter, proton precession magnetometer, Global Positioning System, electrical resistivity meter, rock and mineral collection, exercise science lab, observatory, paleomagnetic & X-ray Lab, physiology labs, Spectrometer Gas Chromatography Mass Spectral Detector (GCMS), Automated DNA Sequencer, Arboretum, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer, Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) mass spectrometer

Technological Availability

Wireless internet on campus?: Yes
Public computers available: 314
Computer courses offered?: No
Email accounts granted?: Yes
Campuswide internet access?: Yes
Usable computer locations: computer center/labs, residence halls, library, student center
Library connection ports (avg.): 70
Classroom connection ports (avg.): 44
Total wireless capacity: 1,000 students/faculty
Recommended OS: Microsoft
Wireless coverage: in all the libraries, in some classrooms, in computer labs, in administrative/faculty offices and work areas, in some of the college-owned, operated, or affiliated housing

Safety

Campus safety details: 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, lighted pathways/sidewalks, student patrols, controlled dormitory access (key, security card, etc)
Students granted university webspace?: Yes
Able to register online?: Yes

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