Why Mary Baldwin?

Colleges everywhere will tell you about their innovative liberal arts programs, their academic excellence, and their outstanding professors. They will tout their student to faculty ratio (10:1 at MBC) and their incredibly talented and diverse student body.

And we will as well.

But what really makes Mary Baldwin different from every other college you’re looking at?

We couldn’t be prouder of our unique and rich history but we are even more excited about where we are today and where we are going.

First … a little bragging …

Mary Baldwin is:

• number 21 among master’s-level universities in the South in U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 edition of America’s Best Colleges.
• highlighted in the August 24 issue of U.S. News & World Report for being among 15 master’s-level universities in the South recognized as “Great Schools, Great Prices.”
• featured in Barron’s Best Buys in College Education.
• recognized as one of the best colleges in the Southeast region by The Princeton Review.
• the first women’s college to be granted a circle of the national leadership honor society Omicron Delta Kappa. It is also one of only a few colleges to host a chapter of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
• included in several editions of the Templeton Guide, a resource that recognizes colleges that encourage character development.
• the winner of the 2009 USA South Sportsmanship Trophy.

MBC has forged paths in a number of unique areas and opportunities. Mary Baldwin is:

• home to one of the only fully endowed undergraduate programs in health care administration in America.
• home to the Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership (VWIL), the only all-female corps of cadets in the world.
• home to the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted (PEG), the only full-time residential program in the country in which academically advanced women as young as rising ninth-graders skip high school and enter college.
• home to one of the oldest undergraduate programs for adults in the country —  MBC’s Adult Degree Program (ADP).
• home to the Spencer Center, MBC’s hub for community service and study abroad. Students study abroad in dozens of countries, from Kenya to Hungary. Students, faculty, and staff log nearly 13,000 hours of community service annually.
• home to over 20 annual college traditions, some of which date back to the 1940’s.
• home to three graduate degrees — Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT), Master of Education (MEd), and Master of Letters/Master of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance (MLitt/MFA).
• home to the Leadership Gateways — a program by which all incoming freshman enter the college through a gateway designed to help them make connections and find their path in college.

We love telling the story of “Why Mary Baldwin?”. Want more? Just ask!

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Regional Centers: Charlottesville, Richmond, Roanoke, South Boston, Staunton, Weyers Cave, Williamsburg

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