Champlain College
Champlain College is a private, coeducational college established originally as Burlington Collegiate Institute by G.W. Thompson in 1878.
Overlooking Lake Champlain, Champlain’s Victorian-era style campus consists of 42 buildings spanning more than two city blocks in Burlington, Vermont
Through its Business Division, Division of Communication & Creative Media, Division of Education & Human Studies and Division of Information Technology & Sciences, Champlain confers bachelor’s degrees in over 30 diverse fields of study with emphasis on business, education, digital game design, hospitality, human services, and pre-professional studies spanning subjects such as Computer & Digital Forensics, Electronic Game Programming, Graphic Design and Radiography.
It also offers graduate degree programs: MS in Digital Investigation Management; MS in Managing Innovation and IT; MS in Mediation and Applied Conflict Studies; MS in Law; and an MBA.
Champlain has an innovative curriculum featuring:
• Upside-down curriculum to allow incoming freshmen to study their major subjects beginning in their first semester
• An interdisciplinary core curriculum combining three to four diverse disciplines in one course with emphasis on self-development during the first-year, focus on community during the second-year, and global issues during the third year. Through courses such as Rhetoric, Concepts of the Self, and Concepts of Community, students gain a background in the liberal arts and sciences.
• Bring Your Own Business or BYOBiz program where students can propose and set up their own businesses while they earn their college degree
• Study Abroad Program in Canada, China, India and Ireland.
It has a total enrollment of more than 2,000 full-time undergraduate students coming from more than 30 states and 15 countries. Average class size is 22 students.
Academic cost for 2009-2010 for students living on campus include tuition of $25,850 (maximum 33 credits combined fall and spring), residence hall charge of $7,150, dining hall charge (carte blanche) of $4,620, and SGA Student Activities Fee of $50.
Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, it is ranked by the U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s best baccalaureate colleges in 2008.
For more information about admissions, financial aid or online learning opportunities such as distance education degree programs and online classes, please contact Champlain College.