Engaged Students

Students at Green Mountain benefit from a multitude of things to do, both at home and abroad...

Engaged Students

• The most popular majors at GMC are environmental studies, adventure education, sustainable agriculture, business, psychology, and a three-year, hands-on program in resort and hospitality management. Students also have the option of completing an adventure certification track, which is designed to allow students with a particular interest or focused career goal to seek appropriate levels of certification and obtain college credit with the American Canoe Association, the Association for Challenge Course Technology, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, the American Mountain Guides Association, the Professional Ski Instructors of America, or the American Association of Snowboard Instructors. The college is also a credit-bearing institution for the National Outdoor Leadership School, which permits students to obtain credit for attendance while remaining enrolled at GMC. The college is an affiliate institution of the National Ski Patrol System and the Association for Experiential Education. Students may transfer credit for Outward Bound, National Outdoor Leadership School, and Wilderness Education Association courses completed for college credit from other institutions.

• Exciting work-study and undergraduate research positions are available for GMC students. Students at GMC have many opportunities to study abroad at sister schools, through sponsored travel courses, or through other approved study-abroad programs. GMC has sister-school exchange programs with Hannam University in Daejeon, South Korea and the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, and both programs are popular with students. Shorter trips abroad for several weeks are also popular. GMC is a founding member of the Eco League, through which students may take a semester at any one of five environmentally focused colleges from Alaska to the Atlantic. Recent destinations through this program include New Zealand, Brazil, Italy, China, Wales, and Hawaii.

• 50 percent of GMC classes engage students in service learning. In one year, GMC students performed 5,829 hours of community service.

Great Teaching

By approaching the liberal arts through their natural, physical, and social environments, students learn important lessons about how things work together, how they can solve complex problems, and how they can become agents for positive change...

Great Teaching

• Students find the professors at Green Mountain College to be accessible, as most live in the surrounding community and often eat in the campus dining hall. Among the teaching staff, Green Mountain has four Fulbright scholars, and 91 percent of faculty members have doctorates or terminal degrees. Classes are never larger than thirty-five students, and average about nineteen.

• Among GMC’s notable faculty members are Professor Jim Harding, who teaches natural resources management, was recently elected secretary of the Green Mountain division of the Society of American Foresters, an organization devoted to advancing the business of forestry in the state of Vermont. As a result, Harding serves on this organization’s executive committee. Professor Jennifer Baker, who teaches arts and sciences, recently spent a week at the University of Oklahoma to participate in a workshop for facial reconstruction sculpture. Often referred to as forensic sculpture, this process employs facial reconstruction on a skull for forensic identification, but facial reconstruction also has museum, portrait sculpture, and law enforcement applications. Professor Steven Fesmire, who teaches philosophy and environmental studies, recently traveled to Unity, Maine to give the keynote address for Unity College’s Inspired Speaker Series.

• Green Mountain’s faculty is as engaged in the curriculum as they are with the community, often starting new programs for students, such as the Asian studies and religious studies programs. One new special academic program is the campus farm, which is truly a part of the campus life in every sense. Students special order omelets in the dining hall made with eggs from Green Mountain’s mobile chicken coop. Athletes walk past the farm road every day on their way to practice. Students collectively manage the farm, keep up with daily chores, and spend time there to relax and get away. The most important aspect of the farm is its level of integration with the central mission of the college, combining an unsurpassed environmental liberal arts education with practical experience.

Academic Programs
Adventure Education, Art, Arts Management, Art with Secondary Education Certificate, Biology, Business, Communications/ Journalism, Elementary Education, Elementary Ed w/ Special Ed. Endorsement, English, English w/ Secondary Ed Certificate, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, History, History with Secondary Ed Certificate, Interdisciplinary Studies, Natural Resources Management, Philosophy, Psychology, Recreation, Resort and Hospitality Management, Self-designed Major, Sociology/ Anthropology, Sustainable Agriculture/Food Production, Writing, Environmental Management, Pre-Law Advisory Program, Pre-Med Advisory Program, Pre-Vet Advisory Program, and Pre-Dental Advisory Program, Youth Development/Camp Management

Vibrant Community

Like everything else at Green Mountain, life on campus is characterized by a close-knit community of people who love to get involved. Whether it’s skiing, theater, music, writing, gardening, volunteering - or countless other campus activities - the typical GMC student stays busy both in and out of the classroom...

Vibrant Community

• Green Mountain College is located on a beautiful, traditional New England campus. The campus is aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate. The 155-acre main 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. GMC is a close-knit community of 750 students; students come to GMC from thirty-three states and twenty-four countries.

• There are six traditional residence halls on campus, and 90 percent of undergraduates live on campus. Within the dorms, some students have formed theme floors to welcome students with similar interests. Students who prefer a peaceful living environment can live on the quiet floor, and students who prefer an active social scene can room on the adventure recreation floor, which is always overflowing with kayaks and climbing gear. Other theme floors include creative arts, community, substance-free, and honors floors.

• Green Mountain College is located in a small rural community with endless outdoor activities. A forty-minute drive will take visitors to world-class skiing at Killington, and beautiful hikes in the Green Mountains. Three urban hubs—New York, Boston, and Montreal—are also within a drive of a few hours. Most weekends, students have the opportunity to go on backpacking, kayaking, canoeing, rock-climbing, or ice-climbing trips led by the Green Mountain Adventure Programming Office. Located between the Adirondack, Green, and Taconic mountains, and just south of Lake Champlain, Green Mountain College is an ideal environment for adventurous activities.

Successful Outcomes

From nationally recognized students and athletes to grads who have cool jobs, a Green Mountain education prepares students for the future...

Successful Outcomes

• Green Mountain College graduates go on to a variety of jobs in different fields. Some of the college’s former environmental studies majors have gone on to positions as environmental instructors and land-use and community planners. English majors have gone on to become staff writers, journalists, and arts editors. Green Mountain’s psychology majors are now working in fields such as counseling, field archaeology, habilitation specialization, residential counseling, and teaching.

• Many students choose to continue their education for a graduate degree, and have been accepted to colleges including American University; Boston University; Cambridge College; Columbia University; Cornell University; Fordham University; George Washington University; Harvard Graduate School of Education; Humboldt University; Naval Post Graduate Academy; New York Medical College; New York University; Princeton University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Skidmore College; Smith College; Stanford University; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; the University of Vermont; and Virginia Commonwealth University. International graduate schools attended by Green Mountain alumni include Gothernburg University, School of Business and Commercial Law in Sweden; Heidelberg University in Germany; McGill University in Canada; the University of Aalborg in Denmark; and the University of Aberystwyth in Wales.