Wake Forest University is located in the city of Winston-Salem, county of Forsyth, in the Piedmont section of North Carolina, about 75 miles from the Blue Ridge Mountains and 225 miles from the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean.

The University was founded in 1834 in Wake County, North Carolina; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was established in 1961 and is one of seven schools that comprise Wake Forest University. The Graduate School consists of two campus locations. The Reynolda Campus is located on Reynolda Road in the northwest section of Winston-Salem (directions).

The Bowman Gray Campus office is located at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and houses the Biomedical Sciences Programs of the Graduate School. The medical center is comprised of N.C. Baptist Hospitals, Inc. and the Wake Forest University School of Medicine located on Medical Center Blvd. next to Business I-40 near downtown Winston-Salem (directions).