Bard College: Rankings, Courses, Admissions, Tuition Fee, Cost of Attendance & Scholarships

Programs, Campus and Accommodation

Campus

• The college campus is situated in a beautiful location of Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y, and has an overall area of almost 1000 acres.
• It occupies a large area and differs from the conventional college campus. The campus is more like a wide village area spread over half the portion of the overall area of the college.
• The campus also takes care of the safety measure and provides facilities like- 24-hour patrolling services, along with late-night pick-up or escort services.
• Also, there are 24-hour emergency telephone lines always active to keep the environment inside the college premises safe.
• Any events that are planned in the college are volunteered by the team of the Student Publicity and Activities Resource Center (SPARC).
• This institution also conducts several events that help to bring along the students and of every department together. The college has more than 100 student clubs for the college community.

Housing facilities/Residence

• The students of this institution are free to stay and utilize the accommodation facilities provided by the college or else they can even stay off-campus in a nearby place.
• There are almost 40 varieties of a residence hall for the students taking admissions to this college.
• Rooms are well-maintained and also the college maintains hygiene for a healthy environment inside the college premises.
• Also, the college helps to filter the best roomies that can ideally match together. They analyze the profile of the students and make combinations with intentional balances.
• Those students who are living on the college premises are offered flexible meal plans.
• The meals and the flexible menu options are all processed and maintained hygiene and this entire process is taken care of by the Bard EATS (Eating Awareness Transforms Society).
• There are provisions for singles, doubles, and also triple occupancy rooms for the students.
• The Bardians can also register for their rooms or make a selection by just registering themselves or by login to MyAnnandale.

Courses

The college offers a plethora of courses for international students with various specialized programs to choose from. It provides 48 undergraduate academic program various divisions some of which are as follows:

• Division of the Arts.
• Division of Languages and Literature.
• Divisions and Science Maths and Computing.
• Division of Social Studies.
• Interdivisional Programs and Concentrations.

The college also provides multiple graduate programs in the fields of Conducting, Economic Theory and Policy, MBA in sustainability, Photographic studies, Curatorial studies, Music, Decorative Arts, Fine Arts, to name a few.

Some of the most preferred majors that the college provides their students are- Social Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts, English Language and Literature/Letters, and Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies.

Students can choose any suitable major with an adjoining field of study with that course to enhance their depth of knowledge of a particular area. There are various stand-alone academic programs that the student can opt for with a non-stand-alone program.

Alumni Network

The Bard Alumni Association is a network where they can work and serve the Bard community being a recruiter or helping the Bardians in career guidance. The average starting salary of the alumni of this college is almost USD 46,800.

Some of the popular alumni include:

• Donald Jay Fagen is an alumnus of this college. Later, he was an American musician from a band named Steely Dan.
• Walter Carl Becker was also an alumnus of this college. Later, he worked as an American musician, and also worked as a songwriter.