📍306 Main Street, Lander, WY 82520

📞(307) 332-2930

🌐 Wyoming Catholic College Website

No. of Students: 155

No. of Majors/Areas of Study: Liberal arts

Mandatum: Yes

Daily or Weekly Eucharistic Adoration: Yes; multiple days per week 

Places Where Students Can Study Abroad: N/A

Annual Cost of Tuition: $27,634 (2025-26)

Typical % of students who receive scholarships: 98%

Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 10:1

Athletics Division: N/A

Acceptance Rate: 96%

On-campus-living requirement: Yes

% of students who live on campus: 99%

Why WCC

Wyoming Catholic College offers a bachelor's degree in the liberal arts that is meant to educate the whole person, integrating the diverse modes of human learning. We form students through a rigorous immersion in the Great Books tradition, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church. In addition to studying the classical disciplines of liberal education in seminar-style classes, our students also venture into the wilderness through our Outdoor Leadership Program, learn to be stewards of Creation in our Horsemanship Program, and fast from technology through our campus cell-phone ban. Grounded in real experience and thoughtful reflection, our graduates love truth, think clearly, and communicate eloquently, engaging with the world as it is.

The Institution:

• President’s Oath
• Catholic Board
• Catholic Faculty
• Mandatum Required
• Theologians’ Oath

Campus Culture:

• Mass and Confession
• Speakers Vetted
• Unobjectionable Clubs
• No Coed Dorms
• Health Services Okay (N/A) 

School’s Comments:

Institution: Wyoming Catholic College students gain incredible experiences, exploring mountains and poems, delving into the depths of the Scriptures and the starry sky, encountering Christ in the wilderness, and embracing the treasure of a liberal education. Unmediated reality—fresh, awe-inspiring, and wondrous—fills this hub of creative leisure. Shared experience and vibrant charity binds together this community of learners from freshmen to professors. Wyoming Catholic College is among the most interesting places to think in America. And so we say to high-school students: When will you join us?

Health Services: We do not offer student health services. The employee health plan that we offer to our faculty and staff is in keeping with the Catholic Church’s teachings and therefore does not include abortion, contraception or any other illicit procedures.

Known For: WCC is famous for our unique and pioneering technology policy. Since it welcomed its first class in 2007, the students have spent the entire school year without their phones. No cell-phones, no TVs, and limited internet access on campus, fosters a face-to-face community and stimulates rigorous academic focus. With its low-tech stance on Catholic education, Wyoming Catholic became the inspiration for the Humanality project, which has brought a program of digital detox to numerous other Catholic Colleges.

Top Student Destination: Nestled in the foothills of the Wind River range of the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming Catholic College students can often be found in the nearby Sinks Canyon, the so-called "Gateway to the Winds". There, students can be found caving in the canyon's subterranean cave system, rock climbing on world-class routes that dot the canyon's cliffs, hiking to a waterfall replete with natural waterslide, or summiting the 13,000-foot mountain Wind River Peak. Just above the canyon, numerous alpine lakes offer opportunities for canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and trout fishing. 

“Why I love my school”:  Sophomore Augustine Turneus (’28): “The authenticity at Wyoming Catholic College is not a façade. Similarly, where else can you more fittingly sing Psalm 121 than from the heart of the mountains, dozens of miles from the nearest vehicle?” 

Senior Magdalena Mortensen (’26) says: “You don’t realize how much you’re missing about life or about yourself until God lands you at a place like this. I came to WCC full of self-misinformation, completely unprepared for the explosion of breathtaking outdoor trips, thrilling academics, and intimate friendships that I found. There’s no other formation I’d want to go out into the world. It’s like I’ve been broken down and built back up.” 

Senior Mark Susanka (’26) also notes: “Wyoming Catholic College has guided me into real friendships and conversations, not just with my peers and professors, but with the great authors of the tradition. When you remove the flashing, blaring distractions of the modern age, you are able to enter fully into the living heritage of our forefathers and our faith. By stepping away from the constant shriek of technology, you find a silence that allows you to hear the voices of the great teachers and thinkers who have come before us.”