Green Mountain College
Living the Environmental Liberal Arts

This year, Green Mountain College celebrates its 175th year. Throughout that long history, strong teacher-student relationships, a close-knit community, and innovative thinking have been hallmarks of a GMC education.

At the heart of the College's environmental mission is the 37-credit Environmental Liberal Arts General Education Program, which all GMC students complete. ELA combines the skills and content of a strong liberal arts course of study with a focus on the environment.

Experiential learning is also central to a GMC education: Students are encouraged to gain hands-on experience through internships, service-learning opportunities and study abroad programs. Interdisciplinary block courses allow students to spend an entire semester working with professors from multiple disciplines on a single area of focus, often through field research, overnight outings, discussions with experts and a culminating project. Adventure programming and the Farm and Food Project provide additional hands-on learning opportunities.

Fast Facts:

• 25 majors, 24 minors
• Masters Programs
  • Masters of Business Administration
  • Masters of Science in Environmental Studies
• Special Programs
  • Farm and Food Project
  • Service Learning and Sustainability
  • Eco-League
  • Honors Program
  • Progressive Program
  • Certificate in Resort Management
• 820 students
• 14:1, student to faculty ratio
• 91% faculty holding doctoral or other terminal degree

Campus:

Green Mountain College is situated in southern Vermont's beautiful lakes region, with the Adirondack Mountains to the west and the Green Mountains to the east. The 155-acre campus features athletic fields, a farm with a garden and livestock, a ropes course, hiking trails, and a great swimming hole on the Poultney River.

Academics:

At Green Mountain College, we believe that a liberal arts education ought to respond to the most pressing problems of the times. The effects of a globalizing economy, rapid population growth, changing land use patterns and surging technological development are transforming almost every profession and creating complex social, economic and ecological problems.

Today's graduates need to be flexible and creative problem solvers. They need a sophisticated understanding of how systems work together. They need to be comfortable synthesizing ideas.

They also need the skills traditional liberal arts programs have always instilled in students: The ability to think critically, write and speak effectively, reason through problems and embrace learning as a life-long endeavor.

Students at Green Mountain College graduate with all of this and more, thanks to a unique academic program, an intimate learning environment and opportunities to weave classroom lessons into the wider world.

Life at GMC:

Life at Green Mountain College extends far beyond the classroom walls. Opportunities include kickboxing and yoga classes, live music and theatre productions, networking opportunities, dozens of student clubs, and outdoor recreational activities, such as skiing, kayaking, and climbing.

Living the Environmental Liberal Arts:

At Green Mountain College, our curriculum is where it all begins: The natural and social environment is the organizing principle of the academic and residential experience. This is what we mean by an "environmental liberal arts" college.

For more information, please contact:

Green Mountain College One Brennan Circle Poultney, VT 05764 Contact: Molly Jo Jones — 802-287-8207 Website: admissions.greenmtn.edu