Becoming a woman who gets things done means being confident in what you know and how to use it. Sweet Briar’s academic programs emphasize intensive intellectual exploration and risk-taking—a great match for your fierce persistence and energy. Whatever your major, you’ll learn how to turn problems into opportunities and put knowledge and insights together into a greater, infinitely more rewarding whole.

An academic calendar designed for the way you learn.
You learn different things in different ways — shouldn’t your college experience reflect that?

We think so. At Sweet Briar, we don’t have the typical 15-week semester that seems to stretch on forever. You’ll have 12-week classes that encourage you to go broad and deep, alternating with a three-week session that can be intensely experiential and hands-on. Do an apprenticeship, go abroad, take coding, create an environmental artwork in collaboration with an artist from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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Three “centers of excellence” highlight hands-on, collaborative and interdisciplinary learning at Sweet Briar. The three centers of excellence are:

• Engineering, Science and Technology in Society
• Human and Environmental Sustainability
• Creativity, Design and the Arts

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