Want to see what all the hype is about?

If you are interested in learning more about Wake Downtown we encourage you to visit in person. Official tours are offered on Monday’s & Friday’s starting at 1:00pm and take around 45 minutes. Please sign up using the link.

If the tour date your prefer happens to be full, the building is available for self-guided tours Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. We have materials at the lobby desk and QR codes throughout the building which lead to videos and additional information regarding the courses and research taking place here. 

Come on down! We’d love to see you!

Watch the virtual tour video below.

Click the button below to be directed to the admissions campus tour webpage.


360° Tours

Get an inside look at Wake Downtown with these 360-degree images. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Exterior of Wake Downtown, Wake Forest’s 115,000 square-foot, STEM-centric urban campus in Winston-Salem’s fast-growing Innovation Quarter.


Get an inside look at Wake Downtown with these 360-degree images. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Wake Downtown’s second floor study lounge and seating area.


Get an inside look at Wake Downtown with these 360-degree images. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Wake Downtown’s first floor entryway and stairwell.


Get an inside look at Wake Downtown with these 360-degree images. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Wake Downtown’s first floor entryway and stairwell, featuring an art installation by Dempsy Calhoun.


Get an inside look at Wake Downtown with these 360-degree images. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

One of the many common areas at Wake Downtown.


Get an inside look at Wake Downtown with these 360-degree images. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Wake Downtown Auditorium


Take a look inside the first class at Wake Downtown. These students at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. are part of the first Wake Downtown cohort. – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Rebecca Alexander, chemistry professor & director of academic programs at Wake Downtown, teaches her first biochemistry class in the new facility.


See images of Wake Downtown on its first day. Students at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. begin classes on Jan. 10, 2017. #WakeDowntown #WFU – Spherical Image – RICOH THETA

Biology graduate student Fadi Marayati works in a Wake Downtown lab.