2582 South Road
Marlboro, VT 05344

Marlboro College is a private, liberal arts college in Marlboro, Vermont with a student-centered educational approach uncharacteristic of other colleges. Other colleges boast mandatory general course requirements, while Marlboro's freshmen, with the assistance of an advisor, engage in individualized programs of study determined by their academic history, personal interest, and needs.

Freshmen and sophomores at Marlboro College benefit from small class sizes, ranging from five to 20 students and can choose from more than 200 courses and 30 areas of study. Juniors and seniors receive one-on-one instruction from their professors in seminars of no more than six students. Each graduating senior's unique Plan of Concentration is evaluated by an outside expert in their field.

Quick Facts

Marlboro College has more than 300 students, a student to faculty ratio of 8 to 1, and an average class size of 10. Over 30 states and more than three countries are represented among the student body.

In 2006, new student enrollment was 118 students consisting of 90 freshman and 28 transfers. The male-to-female ratio was 1 to 1, average GPA was 3.3, 33% were in the top tenth of their high school graduating class, 62% in top quarter of their high school class and 97% in the top half of their high school class.

The college offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in more than 30 fields of study, and a B.A. and B.S. degree in International Studies. All courses are taught by full-time faculty. Students can also study foreign languages. There is language instruction in Chinese, French, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Spanish.

Marlboro College's noteworthy programs are Plan of Concentration, World Studies Program, and Asian Studies.

The technological resources available on campus are three computer labs, a digital photography lab, a digital film-video lab, a computational science lab, a DNA lab, and a language learning lab.

Marlboro has a campus of 300 acres with nine residence halls, three houses, six cottages, two cabins, and four apartments.

The campus community is governed through town meetings with students, faculty and staff voting.

Sixty-nine percent of Marlboro alumni are attending graduate school. The most frequently attended graduate schools are Antioch New England, Harvard, Boston University, University of Massachusetts, Columbia, University of Vermont, Yale, Universities of New York and Universities of California. Forty percentearn master's degrees and 17% earn Ph.D.s.

Eighty percent of students receive financial assistance.

The Marlboro College Graduate Center at the Marlboro College Technology Center is 20 minutes from the college, in Brattleboro, VT. In 2005, Brattleboro was listed as one of the "Top Ten Art Towns," in the book The 100 Best Art Towns in America.

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