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Bennington students are unabashedly brainy, a feature not lost on Unigo, which ranked Bennington among America’s “Top 10 Brainiest Colleges.” They are active shapers of their education, deeply invested in it—as they design their own major course using the Plan Process. This ensures that every class is meaningful, worthwile, and relevant.

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BEST CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE The classroom (and we define that broadly) may be the jewel of the crown of the Bennington experience. There are no lecture halls here; the classroom is a lab for ideas, a study in conversation, and always a thorough interrogation of work. It is no wonder that The Princeton Review ranks it among the best.

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Year after year Bennington is recognized by The Princeton Review for campus beauty—inside and out—from its student houses to its 440 acres of sweeping views. And Architectural Digest included Bennington on its list of the country’s “Top 10 Campuses with Best Architecture.”

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top colleges for internships and noted by The New York Times as a college where students study “what it is to work,” Bennington’s annual Field Work Term sets the standard for immersive, integrated internship programs. Bennington is the only college to require—from the beginning—that all students take their academic interests to the field and on the job for two months each and every winter.

Bennington students work closely with a faculty of innovators—writers and researchers, artists and scientists, all actively practicing in their fields. They bring their experiences and perspectives as professionals into the classroom, and their teaching in turn informs their professional work. It is with good reason that every year Bennington tops The Princeton Review’s lists of colleges with the “Best Classroom Experience” and “Most Accessible Professors,” and where “Professors Get High Marks” and “Class Discussions Are Encouraged.”

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he best places in life are the places you must see to experience. Bennington is one of those places. No one day is like another here, because the campus is shaped and animated by the work being made, and the people making it. It has always held innovation at its center. It is here where Jackson Pollock had his first retrospective. It is here where Peter Drucker crafted the framework for modern management, where Buckminster Fuller built his first model for the Dymaxion House, where literary giants penned their breakout novels, where Peter Dinklage ’91, Donna Tartt ’86, Bret Easton Ellis ’86, Sally Mann ’73, Helen Frankenthaler ’49, Carol Channing ’42, and scores of other innovators began their work. It is here where modern dance was born. When you visit Bennington, you visit more than a campus. You enter a world where ideas are moving back and forth, where classrooms are alive with possibility and brewing with wonder, a 24-hour campus that never stops and rarely sleeps—a place that is moving on the fuel of perpetual inspiration and practice and passion. This is your invitation to experience it.

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