Academics

The Academic Center

To help first-year students with the transition to college, we offer study skills workshops, tutoring, writing lab and first-year faculty mentors.

Study abroad

Study abroad in 37 countries, 265 colleges. Member of International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP). Explore your world, immerse yourself in different cultures. 

Discover your passion

  • More than 40 majors, minors and partnership programs.
  • Classes of just six students are not unusual.
  • Average class size of 17.
  • Student faculty ratio 14:1.
  • First-year students meet with a faculty mentor.
  • Professors personally advise you.

Ocean Acidification with Dr. Mark Green

Marine science professor Dr. Mark Green explains ocean acidification and how it affects marine life.

Out of the classroom, into the bay

Learning ecology by experiencing ecology

student kayaking The Gulf of Maine Environment by Sea Kayak class investigated the "confluence of oceanographic, ecological, biological, geological, and chemical processes" that have led to one of the most biologically productive regions of the world. The class used the Gulf of Maine as a microcosm of similar processes occurring globally.

Meet our resident experts

Marine science professor Dr. Mark Green discovers how increasing ocean acidification causes large-scale die-off of young shellfish, providing one of the first data sets in this emerging field of research on “the other CO2 problem.”

Learn more about our faculty.

Faculty make time for students

Business professor knows everybody's name within five days. Ethics professor invites class over for dinner. Faculty and staff volunteer beside students during Spring Break Workfest.

Test drive your career

Build self-confidence and college credit at the same time with an internship. Start on your road to a job.

My favorite course

Matthew Gutshall “Business Ethics with Beth Richardson. Some people would think 'Ethics - why do you like that class!?' It wasn't the class as much as it was the professor that made the class interesting. She brings in real-life and real-world examples into the classroom, putting the students into the situations and making us come up with solutions and verdicts on the ethical situation. The best and most memorable part of Beth's Business Ethics class was the mock trial. Being a judge for the mock trial was one of the best classroom experiences I've had here. ”
— Matthew Gutshall ’11

My favorite experience with faculty

Noah Ebel

“For the past two Februarys I have gone with Dr. Erikson hiking on Mount Washington. They were day hikes and we did an acid deposition study. We wanted to find out whether or not the pollutants in the atmosphere were in the snow and what effects that might have on the mountain once the snow melts or on the organisms in the snow. ”
—Noah Ebel ’12