Pre-College Program
Pre-College Program in Environmental Field Studies
July 7 - 25, 2025
Students can earn 3 college credits in Environmental Field Studies while living on Sterling College’s campus in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Each morning will focus on field-based lessons ranging from ecology to sustainable agriculture to outdoor education, while the afternoon sessions will involve character development through service learning, expanded field opportunities, and adventures like rock climbing, mountain biking, and paddling.
Open to rising juniors, seniors, and recent high school graduates.
Applications will open mid-February.
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What You Learn and How
Learning at Sterling is deeply personalized, outdoor-oriented, community-centered and rooted in doing. Students earn credit and gain expertise through engagement and growth in courses, work, experiential endeavors, and seminars. By giving equal weight to work, study, and living in community, a Sterling education is distinct. We make the abstract personal.
Pre-College participants have access to our 130 acre campus of forests, farms, gardens, and endless outdoor adventures.
