Bard College Top Questions

Describe your favorite campus traditions.

Eden

Bard College is best known for its wide variety of class options and extremely talented professors.

Alexandra

Bard College is a small liberal arts school best known for its academic integrity. The professors that this institution hires are incredibly intelligent and forward-looking and encourage creative thinking in their students. The student to faculty ratio means that as a student you can form friendships with your professors. Most students at Bard are studying the Humanities or the Arts (Visual Arts, Performance Art, Music) and there is a really fantastic artistic community here. Students take their work very seriously and there is a lot of academic discussion that occurs outisde of class.

Christiane

My school is best known for its conservatory

Jessica

We house the American symphony and have the youngest person to become a college president

Rixey

Bard is best known for the longest men's basketball losing streak in NCAA history, and for having a very good studio arts program.

Emily

Hippie, liberal/left-leaning, environmental, free-thinking

Emma

I guess we're known for being chill.

Hannah

Drugs; pretentious, artsy hipsters; kickass programs inthe arts, religion, poli sci, and lit; our president, Leon Botstein; our experimental hippie-college past, which the outside world seems to think is still going on.

Claire

Leon Botstein, liberal environment, number of activists

Laura

Bard is best known for its incredible academics and its Frank Gehry building, not to mention its hipster students.