Admission

How to Apply

Every Bard applicant is unique, so we offer multiple ways to apply. You only need to choose how and when.
How:

• Common Application
• Coalition with Scoir
• The Bard Entrance Exam

• November 1 — Immediate Decision Plan, Early Decision I, Early Action, The Bard Entrance Exam
• January 1 — Early Decision II, Regular Decision

Academics at Bard

Academics at Bard focus on giving students a strong scholarly foundation with our rigorous core curriculum, then encouraging them to explore individual academic interests. The College seeks to engender in every student a wide curiosity and a profound love of learning. Professors at Bard are active in their disciplines, producing new scholarly work and engaging in ongoing research, and the level of academic discourse in the classroom is high.
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Student Stories

Students come from across the country and around the globe to study at Bard. While pursuing their degrees in a broad range of academic programs, they volunteer in the community, develop their career goals, and bring their talents to the campus and the region. For Bard students, education goes well beyond the classroom. They all share a love of learning and a readiness to make their mark on the world.
Meet Our Students
 

Our Faculty

Bard’s extraordinary faculty are dedicated to the philosophy of teaching. Today and throughout Bard’s history, members of the faculty have effected change in medicine, the arts and letters, international affairs, journalism, scientific research, and education, among other endeavors. These distinguished scholars are advisers as well as instructors: Bard has no graduate teaching assistants. 
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Civic Engagement

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College coordinates a broad range of initiatives that connect students to internships, volunteer opportunities, community engagement, and activism. Bard students tap into their own idealism and vision, developing civic skills that are fundamental for active citizenship.
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Our Campus

Bard’s campus covers approximately 1,200 acres of fields and forested land bordering the Hudson River in New York State, and features such state-of-the-art facilities as the Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J. Kayden Center for Science and Computation, Center for Experimental Humanities at New Annandale House, and Frank Gehry–designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. The campus is a center from which students explore the rich natural and cultural life of the Hudson Valley and also have access by car or train to New York City, about 90 miles to the south.
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Meet Our Students

Students come from across the country and around the globe to study at Bard. They undertake a broad range of academic programs in Annandale. While pursuing their degrees, they volunteer in the community, develop their career goals, and bring their talents to the campus and the region. They share a love of learning and the leadership to make their mark on the world.
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Life After Bard

Whether working in Annandale or Berlin, in sustainable agriculture or in a tech startup, Bardians make a difference. Learn about Bard alumni/ae in the world, and how Bard supports graduates.
Learn More About Our Alumni/ae Network