Fifty-two ways to spend four years.
Merritt's four schools share one general curriculum, so a biology major takes a poetry seminar and an English major learns to read a data table. Professors advise every student for all four years.
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8 majors
Cell and organism biology with a required semester of research. Pairs well with a chemistry or statistics minor.
Workshops, literature seminars and a senior portfolio. The college literary magazine is edited by majors.
Field courses on Lake Champlain, a summer fellowship at Lakeshore Station and a capstone with a state agency.
Soil science, farm planning and a working half-acre plot at the edge of campus.
Clinical placements begin in the second year at hospitals across the Champlain Valley.
Epidemiology, community health and a practicum with a county health department.
Courses aligned to the CPA exam with an optional co-op in Burlington's financial sector.
Students run a small venture for a year and present to local investors at the spring demo night.