University of Puget Sound has been named one of the nation’s Best Value Colleges for 2025 by The Princeton Review, highlighting its academic excellence, career outcomes, and commitment to affordability.
The honor places Puget Sound among 209 top-tier institutions selected for their return on investment. The full list, ranking categories, and college profiles are available at PrincetonReview.com/BestValueColleges.
The University of Puget Sound has received a $1,050,000 gift from Richard N. Laurance ’74 to establish the Puget Sound Endowed Fund for the university’s crew program. The endowment will provide unrestricted support for the Loggers, helping sustain the school’s 60-plus-year tradition of competitive rowing.
Three University of Puget Sound students, Julio Deloya-Garcia ’27 of San Jose, California; Hayes Freeman ’26 of Crested Butte, Colorado; and Isabeau Fuller ’27 of St. Peter, Minnesota, have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State for study abroad trips through Spring 2026.
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Greater, We Ascend is a podcast from the University of Puget Sound about Loggers reaching to the heights. Subscribe today.
It’s been 83 years since Executive Order 9066 led to the forcible removal of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast to internment camps during World War II—including 36 students who were attending what was then the College of Puget Sound. But despite the passage of time, there are still many ways the campus community remembers and honors those whose educations and lives were interrupted by the mass forced removal and incarceration.
It is not uncommon to see a toddler talking to themselves. Self-talk is so common that scientists have termed it a normal part of human language development. Research conducted by Erin Colbert-White, associate professor of psychology at the University of Puget Sound, suggests a surprising parallel between self-talk and the self-directed vocalizations of a home-reared parrot.
During the 1939–40 academic year, 16 students of Japanese ancestry formed the Japanese Students’ Club at what was then known as the College of Puget Sound and, as a gift to the school, planted 16 Japanese cherry trees in a “friendship circle” next to Anderson Hall.
Just two years later, on the heels of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government ordered that the 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast be removed and incarcerated in internment camps. That number included 36 students at Puget Sound.
