George Wythe University
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| Motto | "Building Statesmen" |
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| Type | Private, non-profit, classical liberal arts, unaccredited, nonsectarian |
| Established | September 1992 |
| Endowment | None |
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Academic staff
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23 |
| Students | 150 |
| Location | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States |
| Website | http://www.gw.edu |
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Coordinates: 37°38′18″N 113°15′00″W / 37.638279°N 113.250053°W George Wythe University (GWU) is a non-profit classical liberal arts school in Salt Lake City, Utah which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts, education and political philosophy. GWU's curriculum borrows from the Great Books of the Western World published in 1952 by Britannica, and its methodology is based on the Socratic seminar and Oxford tutorial models. The school focuses primarily on preparing students for leadership and is dedicated specifically to laying an educational foundation for building future statesmen. The school is named in honor of George Wythe, mentor to Thomas Jefferson. GWU is unaccredited but is an applicant for accreditation with the American Academy for Liberal Education.
George Wythe College (GWC) was organized in 1992 as a subsidiary of the Institute for Constitutional Education with Donald N. Sills as president. The school opened that fall as a Utah branch of Coral Ridge Baptist University (CRBU). Over the next several years the school awarded bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees across a range of subjects, including Finance, Youth and Family Counseling, History, Near Eastern Studies, Education, and Psychology. In 1997 a steering committee formalized the school’s comprehensive academic program, integrating the methodology, motto and mission into a cohesive liberal arts model which it called the Five Pillars of Statesmanship. In 1999, George Wythe Foundation was created to commence fundraising efforts, and by 2000 the college expanded its faculty and administration to include 13 employees plus support staff.
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