Ursinus College is a small, liberal arts college located in Collegeville, PA. Our educational philosophy encourages students to think for themselves, so that they may become mature, responsible independent adults in an interdependent world.
Any one or combination of 62 majors and minors develop the intellect and character needed for a rapidly changing world. Starting with a thought-provoking first-year seminar course, students develop the ability to think critically, leading to lives of purpose and professional achievement.
Applied Professional Experiential Learning = APEX
APEX at Ursinus College equips students with the skills and experiences needed to become forward-thinking leaders and problem-solvers. Through applied learning, experiential opportunities, and career development, APEX ensures every student—regardless of major—is prepared for success in a rapidly changing world.
Learn more about our APEX program here: https://www.ursinus.edu/academics/apex-at-ursinus/
The Ursinus Quest: Open Questions, Open Minds curriculum, a way of teaching—and a way of doing—that ensures you are thinking about what matters most and the impact you’ll have on the world.
The Quest curriculum is built around four questions that everyone confronts:
- What should matter to me?
- How should we live together?
- How can we understand the world?
- What will I do?
What Matters to Us at Ursinus College
Personalized Education
Ursinus gives you the privileges and responsibilities of becoming researchers, writers, thinkers and artists alongside your professors. Faculty and staff know you by name and can guide and mentor you in ways not possible at larger campuses.
Interdisciplinary
Revelations occur at the intersections of disciplines. Ursinus students thrive when multiple interests connect and influence each other. Combine business and chemistry or history and media studies; Gain multiple perspectives to find innovative solutions.
Experiential Learning
Prepare for careers of the future with entrepreneurial opportunities, inquiry-based courses, undergraduate research, civic engagement, and workforce experience built in to the curriculum. We proactively work with our students to bridge the undergraduate experience with career placement and graduate school preparation.
Inclusive Campus
We believe that the combined strengths of our diverse backgrounds and experiences are the cornerstones of an inclusive campus.
Health and Well-being
As the very first liberal arts signatory of the Okanagan Charter in the United States, Ursinus is boldly committed to ensuring health and well-being as an integrated, campus-wide priority. Our new Collaborative Commission on Well-being is designed as a national model to address the intersections of education, economics, spirituality, culture and society on student health.
Ursinus College is the 2nd highest ranked National Liberal Arts College in the United States that offers Women's Wresting as a Varsity sport, as well as 2nd "Best Value". We were the top ranked school in Social Mobility. (US News & World Report)
We are 1 of 11 NCAA colleges that offers Women's Wrestling as a varsity sport to be included in the Princeton Review's "Best 390 Colleges" list.
We are 1 of 5 NCAA colleges that offers Women's Wrestling as a varsity sport to make the Forbes list of Top 500 colleges AND be on the Forbes list of Top 25 Private Schools with Generous Financial Aid.
Our nationally recognized incoming recruiting class of 2029 consists of 11 women who collectively have double-digit state championship and national medals, brining our roster to 23 women for 2025-26 with only two seniors.
Four of our incoming student-athletes have appeared in the USA Wrestling national rankings, three of whom were in the top 15..
Every year we travel and compete at the U23 USA Wrestling World Team Trials as part of our RTC, the MontCo Wrestling Club.
The MontCo Wrestling Club was the first RTC in the country on a NCAA DIII campus.
Since our inception in 2023, we've had 12 National Qualifiers and 27 NWCA Scholar-Americans.
in 2024-25, we had two Region II Champions and four Runners-Up to finish 3rd in Region II with six National Qualifiers, with two of our National Qualifiers finished top 16 at the National Championships.
In 2026, we had 2 National Qualifiers for the first ever NCAA Women's National Championships, one of whom was a Regional Champion.
In 2025, we finished 13th in the nation in overall team GPA with a 3.59, besting out our 2024 finish of 14th in the nation. Our team GPA in 2026 of a 3.68 was good for 16th in the nation.
Our coaching staff consists of former Division I coaches and a Division I All- American, who in total have coached 55 NCAA Qualifiers, 6 NCAA All-Americans, 2 U23 All-Americans, a U23 National Champion and an NCAA National Champion.
Coach Jamison has been a member of the Pennsylvania USA Women's Wrestling National Team staff since 2023, with Coach Terlizzi joining the staff in 2024. Since then Team PA has won 3 consecutive 16U National Championships as well as the 2025 Jr. National Championship, producing 13 National Champions and 48 All-Americans.
Coach Jamison was named NCWWC 2024 Region II Coach of the Year and was a National Coach of the Year finalist.
Hear from a few Bears when they sat down with Kyle Klingman of Flowrestling
Questions? Contact Director of Wrestling Joe Jamison jjamison@ursinus.edu