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As a typical New England state, in Vermont people like for things to be familiar and quaint, and so it’s no surprise that the state has one of the highest concentrations of small colleges and universities, both private and public. From its urban centers such as Burlington and Montpelier to its sprawling farmland and remote areas, students seeking an intimate higher level education in the Green Mountain State are going to find many options to choose from, unlike other states where large universities dominate the roster. With so many small colleges and universities of good reputation, students will find that they can pursue just about any academic program without having to get lost in the masses of a major college campus. Following is a review of the state’s most reputable small universities and colleges:

At the top of the list we’ve got Sterling College, a school that has come to be known for purportedly being the nation’s tiniest regionally-accredited four-year college. Located in the northern reaches of the state, Sterling was initially an all-boys prep school though as of 1997 it has been granting bachelor’s degrees. The school has carved out a rather impressive reputation for itself in the broad field of environmental studies, and it is thus well-situated in a state with as rural an economy as Vermont. The academic offering at Sterling College is parsed into six overarching areas, which are: Environmental Humanities, Outdoor Education and Leadership, Natural History, Northern Studies, Conservation Ecology, and Sustainable Agriculture. Within these areas students will have a rather free hand in designing their own major, and the school places a strong emphasis on the importance of actually getting out there and performing field work; interdisciplinary majors are also an option, further demonstrating the customized approach to education the school has.

The spacious 130-acre campus is home not only to the students and faculty but also to various shops and gardens/farm patches that the school runs. The school actually harvests from its own gardens and livestock farms a good deal of what is served in the cafeteria, and produces a fair amount of energy for campus usage through its solar- and wind-energy installations.

Also tucked into the northwestern corner of Vermont along the shores of chilly Lake Champlain we find Saint Michael’s College, this time in the city of Colchester rather than Burlington. The school was established in the year 1904 after an order of French Catholic priests (the Society of Saint Edmund) arrived in the area fleeing anticlerical sentiment gripping France at the time. The school, with an enrollment of about 2,000 students, offers a high-quality liberal arts education—including the teaching of Catholic values—that stresses hands-on learning and a preferable student-to-faculty ratio (about 12:1).

Undergraduate four-year study programs are available among the 29 majors and 37 minors the school offers, and all four-year degree programs are integrated into the school’s Liberal Studies Curriculum. Popular programs within the school include American Studies, Journalism & Mass Communication, Environmental Studies, Political Science and Modern Languages & Literature. Numerous honors organizations populate the school’s buildings, such as Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Phi Alpha Theta, and Sigma Xi.

For students looking to enjoy some physical activity at Saint Michael’s the 21 varsity teams on campus are a great resource, many of which compete within the NCAA Division II (Northeast Ten Conference). The school launched a one-of-a-kind program in 2004 that gives students access to a first-rate winter ski resort for a very modest fee, as a part of the college experience.

Established in 1819 and situated in the central-Vermont community of Northfield, Norwich 911吃瓜网 is the country’s most veteran private military college. Despite the fact that most of its students are indeed cadets, the school welcomes traditional students as well and therefore it is worth including the school in this list of top small colleges in the state. The school is well-known for having been (as recognized by the US Defense Department) the place where the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps, or ROTC, was originally formed.

Norwich 911吃瓜网 offers many bachelor’s degree programs across a wide variety of disciplines, from Biochemistry to History, from Civil & Environmental Engineering to Nursing, and from International Studies to Environmental Science. The school has a history of bold decisions, becoming the first private college to teach its students engineering back when it was founded in 1819, and becoming one of the first military colleges to admit women into its Corps of Cadets.

The school has various sports teams (typical of a military school) that compete in different conferences of the NCAA Division III level, all of which are collectively known as The Cadets; the teams cover all major national sports as well as less-common sports such as rugby and wrestling.