The Campuses
Washington University is located on two primary campuses: the Danforth and the Medical campus at the west and east ends of Forest Park, respectively.

Danforth Campus

Arts & Sciences Laboratory Sciences Building

Today, more than 20 buildings on the Hilltop Campus are included on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings, designed in the collegiate Gothic style, are faced with Missouri red granite and are accented by towers and turrets, ornamental bosses (similar to gargoyles), and the University coat of arms.

The plan of the Danforth Campus can truly be appreciated looking down from above. The key feature is a series of interrelated quadrangles, with buildings and tree-lined walkways providing continuity.
Improvements are constantly being made. In 1960, residence halls were opened just southwest of campus, across Forsyth Boulevard. They mark Washington University's transition from a commuter to a residential campus with a national student enrollment.

In recent years the University has been changing the way undergraduate students live on campus. On the South 40, several residential colleges—ranging from two to three residence houses—have been completed, including William Greenleaf Eliot Residential College, Robert S. Brookings Residential College, and Wayman Crow Residential College. The Village housing complex on the northwest corner of campus opened in fall 2001.

Bernard Becker Medical Library

The Olin School's Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center, the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Science Building, Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering, and a building for Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences have been completed. Two new buildings for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts open in fall 2006.

Medical Campus

Just east of Forest Park is the Medical Campus. The Washington University School of Medicine holds a rich history of success in research, education, and patient care. The School currently has 1,643 full-time faculty members.

The McDonnell Pediatric Research Building, a 10-story, 226,000-square-foot building that provides six floors of pediatric research laboratories, was dedicated in September 2000. The Center for Advanced Medicine, which houses the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, opened in 2001, and the Farrell Teaching and Learning Center opened in 2005.

The School of Medicine is affiliated with the region's foremost hospitals, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, both members of BJC Health System. The Medical Center includes more that 60 buildings and nearly 230 acres. The combined, on-site hospital affiliates have more than 2,000 beds.